Fresh on the heals of the successful What Dogs Teach Us, author Glenn Dromgoole offers the similarly insightful What Cats Teach Us. Cats, better known for their reprimanding attitudes towards humans, still have much to teach. From keeping fastidious grooming habits, eating a healthy fish diet and getting plenty of rest to nurturing your independent spirit, expressing your indiv...(展开全部)

Critical Lessons concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools. Taking seriously the Socratic advice, 'know thyself', it focuses on topics that will help students to understand the forces - good and bad - that work to socialize them. This 2006 book argues why critical thinking is necessary in schools because it requires the discussion o...(展开全部)

内尔·诺丁斯(Nel Noddings)，博士，美国斯坦福大学荣誉退休教授，美国教育哲学协会和约翰·杜威研究协会前任主席。她的主要著作包括：《关心：伦理和道德教育的女性观点》（1984）、《女性与罪恶》（1989）、《学会关心——教育的另一种模式》（1992）、《培养智慧的信仰和反叛》（1993）、《教育哲学》（1995）、《始于家庭：关怀与社会政策》（2002）、《培养道德的人：以关怀伦理替代人格教育》（2002），以及最新出版的《幸福与教育》（2003），等等。同时她也是170篇文章的作者。这些著作和文章的内容涉猎从关怀伦理到数学分析等广泛问题，在学术界受到高度关注，并具有国际影响。诺丁斯曾经在美国公立学校任职15年，先后从事教学、行政和课程开发工作。她曾经担任新泽西州中学数学教研部主任、芝加哥大学杜威实验学校和斯坦福大学教育学院院长。在斯坦福大...(展开全部)

Description A thoughtful, deeply honest look at the transforming experience of parenthood and how our children can lead us to a more profound understnading of ourselves. 'Live with children long enough and beauty, love, innocence, play, pain, and death, everything appears in a new light...' Children: they have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and ...(展开全部)

The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are unable to beat the market over the long term, which has led to massive outflows from active funds to passive funds. Where should investors turn in search of a new approach? Pulak Prasad offers a philosophy of patient long-term investing based on an unexpected source: evolutionary bi...(展开全部)

We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings , Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understa...(展开全部)

We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings, Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understan...(展开全部)

The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. With this book, you’ll get a candid and insightful look at how software is constructed and maintained by some of the world’s leading practitioners. Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum K. Wright, software engineers and a technical writer at Google, reframe how software engineerin...(展开全部)

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's coronavirus response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surge...(展开全部)

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's coronavirus response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surge...(展开全部)