Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time Amazon executives. Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the ...(展开全部)

In her latest collection of stories, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected, in tales that resonate with sorrow, humor, and wisdom, and confirm her reputation as a living master of the genre. "Dazzles with its faith in language and in life."--New York Times Book Review.

In her latest collection of stories, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected, in tales that resonate with sorrow, humor, and wisdom, and confirm her reputation as a living master of the genre. "Dazzles with its faith in language and in life."--New York Times Book Review.

This eye-opening book offers a revelatory scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality–and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless quest for the fountain of youth. Yet, despite modern humans living lon...(展开全部)

This eye-opening book offers a revelatory scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality–and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless quest for the fountain of youth. Yet, despite modern humans living lon...(展开全部)

"We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to...(展开全部)

【美】拉斯洛•博克（Laszlo Bock） 波莫纳学院国际关系学学士、耶鲁大学工商管理学硕士，谷歌首席人才官，每年处理200万份以上的应聘简历，负责为谷歌招募、培养并留住优秀谷歌人。当拉斯洛辞去麦肯锡的咨询工作，转而去做人力资源工作，朋友们都以为他疯了。然而事实证明， 他的选择是对的。在拉斯洛的任期内，谷歌已在各个国家超过100次被评为最佳雇主。 拉斯洛曾在通用电气和麦肯锡咨询公司任职，为科技、私募基金和媒体行业的客户提供增长战略、复苏战略及运营咨询。他也曾联合成立了一家非营利组织，帮助处于困境中的年轻人。他是波莫纳学院董事会成员，也是多家风险投资基金公司的顾问或董事会成员。 拉斯洛曾在美国国会上就移民政策改革和劳工问题做陈述；作为主题人物登上过《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》，并任美国公共广播公司“新闻一小时”和“今日秀”栏目嘉宾。 2...(展开全部)

'Superbly insightful . A brilliant new perspective on World Cup management' – Jamie Carragher 'Superb - great stories about the greatest tournament' – Daniel Taylor Master tacticians, crazy tyrants and lucky generals... This insightful investigation reveals the mindsets and, frankly, at times unbelievable approaches of the coaches who strive to deliver football's ultimate prize...(展开全部)

An argument against the ideology of domesticity that separates work from home; lavishly illustrated, with architectural proposals for alternate approaches to working and living. Despite the increasing numbers of people who now work from home, in the popular imagination the home is still understood as the sanctuary of privacy and intimacy. Living is conceptually and definitively...(展开全部)

An argument against the ideology of domesticity that separates work from home; lavishly illustrated, with architectural proposals for alternate approaches to working and living. Despite the increasing numbers of people who now work from home, in the popular imagination the home is still understood as the sanctuary of privacy and intimacy. Living is conceptually and definitively...(展开全部)