[英文原版]The RoadLess Traveled 少有人走的路 基本信息 出版社: Holiday House;Intl edition; Export (1997年9月1日) 外文书名: 少有人走的路 平装: 320页 语种： 英语 ISBN: 068485015X 条形码: 9780684850153 商品尺寸: 2.2 x 10.8 x16.9 cm 商品重量: 150g 图书描述 这是一本震惊世界的名著，出版后虽未作任何宣传，但经人们口耳相传，迅速畅销起来，它曾在美国著名的《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上连续上榜近二十年，创下了出版史上的一大奇迹。 这是一部罕见的心理学杰作，早在1983年，它便成为有口皆碑的超级畅销读物。作者灵活运用传统心理分析方法去解决人生的冲突和难题。它的有效和实用，产生了前所未有的轰动响应。 《出版者周刊》 本书处处透露出沟通与理解的意味，它跨越时代限制，帮助我们探索爱的本质，引导我
XENOPHON the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. THE ECONOMIST records Socrates and Critobulus in a talk about profitable estate management, and a lengthy recollection by Socrates of Ischomachus' discussion of the same topic.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second ofsix children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cubreporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driveron the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated forhis services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921.In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning fromjournalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris,associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and GertrudeStein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-gamehunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position incontemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the NobelPrize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man andthe Sea. He died in 1961.
Book De*ion In this parable for a modern age, motivational speaker Sanbornrecounts the true story of Fred, the mail carrier who passionatelyloves his work and who genuinely cares about the people he serves.Sanborn illuminates the simple steps each person can to transformtheir lives from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
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This boastful, boyishly disarming, thoroughly engaging personal history offers an inside look at aspects of financing, development and construction in big-time New York real estate. "I don't do it for the money," maintains Trump, the son of a Queens realtor who, at age 27, bought and transfigured the colossal Hotel Commodore at Grand Central Terminal. Now 40, he has built, among other projects, and owns outright, Fifth Avenue's retail and residential Trump Tower (where he occupies a double-triplex suite); owns and operates Trump's Castle, a casino in Atlantic City; is arguably the most visible young man on Manhattan's celebrity circuit ("Governor Cuomo calls. . . . dinner at St. Patrick's Cathedral. . . . I call back Judith Krantz"); and is currently developing a controversial 100-acre West Side "Television City" project that is planned to include the world's tallest building. For those who would do likewise, Trump articulates his secrets for success: imagination, persistence, skill at "juggling provisional c
Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world around us.Are smart people overrated? What can pit bulls teach us about crime? Why are problems like homelessness easier to solve than to manage? How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job? Gladwell explores the minor geniuses, the underdogs and the overlooked, and reveals how everyone and rything contains an intriguing story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best - asking questions and seeking answers in his inimitable style.
Are good manners relevant in this day and age? More so than ever, with cell phones, body piercings, e-mails, and other 21st-century accessories. Now the authors of Things You Need to Be Told offer more advice-pertinent to today's issues, and filled with both hilarious wit and practical common sense.
“Applicants looking for the competitive edge in gettingaccepted at the business school of their choice may want to perusethis book.” –Security Traders Handbook Every year, thousands apply for a finite number of places inbusiness schools. With similar grades, backgrounds, and goals,sometimes the only thing that can make an applicant stand out isthe application essay. It’s the best chance you have to shine andtip the balance in your favor. Essays That Worked for Business Schools shows that the bestessays are brief, sincere, and personal. Some are off the wall,some are bold, all are unique to their creator. One applicantwrites about starting his own airline. Another tells about thecorruption in his job as a defense contractor. And a third reflectson his license plate. From the thousands submitted each year, theforty essays in this book were considered some of the best byadmissions officers at the nation’s top business schools. As thiscollection demonstrates, with creativity and effor
If you're ever favored enough to catch a few minutes of a corporate CEO's time, and feel bold enough to ask what their job entails, chances are you'll hear something lofty about developing strategy, empowering employees, seeing the big picture. But if you ask to see their calendar for the past month, you'll probably find they've spent very little, if any, time doing those things. The look-at-last-month's-calendar trick was devised by Donald Laurie, a Boston-based management consultant, to help top executives figure out how best to lead their companies. Laurie sees a leader as the person who climbs out on the balcony and sees the company from above, the one who sees how all the parts connect to make a smoothly running machine. At the same time, if the leader stays up on that balcony for too much of the day, he or she can't hear the grumbling below. And what's being grumbled about is often the information that could save the CEO's job. As an example of this, Laurie relates the story of Xerox Corp. when it
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