Jonathan Fields knows the risks-and potential power-of uncertainty. He gave up a six-figure income as a lawyer to make $12 an hour as a personal trainer. Then, married with a 3-month old baby, he signed a lease to launch a yoga center in the heart of New York City. . . the day before 9/11. But he survived, and along the way he developed a fresh approach to transforming uncertai...(展开全部)

Knowledge and expertise are highly valued in today’s business world. These values are introduced at an early age by our education system, and at work, we are assessed based on what we know—on having the answers and solutions. Our need for certainty, to know what’s going on, to have all the answers, exerts strong pressure in our lives. This important book offers an alternative, ...(展开全部)

Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., has been dubbed "the queen of Self-Help" by the Times in the UK and is considered one of the top self-help authors in the world. Her books has been published in over 100 countries and translated into over 30 languages. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway launched her career as a bestselling author. Some of her many other titles include Feel the Fear and Beyond,...(展开全部)

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with...(展开全部)

We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is ...(展开全部)

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a C...(展开全部)

埃里克·安布勒（Eric Ambler,1909--1998） 现代间谍悬疑小说开创者，钻石匕首奖、爱伦·坡终身大师奖双料得主。《纽约时报》盛赞其为“几代悬疑作家的楷模”。 埃里克·安布勒出生于英国的一个音乐世家，却对写作情有独钟。1941年，他加入英国皇家炮兵团，后被调到陆军摄影部，被英国女王伊丽莎白亲自授予军官职位。战后从事编剧工作，并获得第26届奥斯卡金像奖最佳编剧奖提名。 小说创作方面，代表作《光天化日》一举斩获爱伦·坡最佳作品奖。著名作家勒卡雷称赞其为“所有人的灵感源泉”。

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home - alongside, among others, an entran...(展开全部)

Your web site is a business--design it like one. Billions of dollars in spending decisions are influenced by web sites. So why aren't businesses laser-focused on designing their sites to maximize their Return on Investment (ROI)? Web design can do more than make a site look good--it can be a powerful strategic weapon that enhances financial returns and creates competitive adva...(展开全部)

The man "Business Week" calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing" -- the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it. Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditiona...(展开全部)