The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society 内容简介 Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends such as Beyond Certainty has changed the way we view society. In The Second Curve, Handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. He even asks whether we should rethink our roles in life as students, parents, workers and voters and what the aims of an ideal society of the future should be. Provocative and thoughtful as ever, he sets out the questions we all need to ask ourselves and points us in the direction of some of the a
The only official verbal review for the GMAT from the creatorsof the test Anyone preparing for the Graduate Management AdmissionTest(r) (GMAT) knows it's important to study with the experts. WithThe Official GMAT Verbal Review, 2nd Edition, you'll get questions,answers, and explanations straight from the source. The onlyofficial verbal review for the GMAT Exam, this book targets yourstudy and helps you improve your verbal skills by focusing on yourability to read and comprehend written material, to reason andevaluate arguments, and to correct written material to conform tostandard English. Inside, you'll find: * 300 actual questions frompast GMAT tests, including 75 questions new to this edition *Sections on Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning, and SentenceCorrection * Questions organized in order of difficulty to savestudy time
Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable E ditorial Reviews Direct, blunt, and brutally honest,Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: you keep going when everyone else is giving up, you thrive under pressure, you never let your emotions make you weak. In "The Relentless 13," he details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life. Relentless shows you how to trust your instincts and get in the Zone; how to control and adapt to any situation; how to find your opponent's weakness and attack. Grover gives you the same advice he gives his world-class clients-"don't think"-and shows you that anything is possible. Kobe Bryant raves, "Tim Grover is the master of mental toughness. This book is the blueprint for discovering what you are capable of achieving, getting results you never imagined, reaching the highest level of success-and then going even higher." Relentlessis about breaking the rules that hold you ba
Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail (英语) 精装 内容简介 Winner of the 2015 James Beard Award for Best Beverage Book and the 2015 IACP Jane Grigson Award. A revolutionary approach to making better-looking, better-tasting drinks. In Dave Arnold s world, the shape of an ice cube, the sugars and acids in an apple, and the bubbles in a bottle of champagne are all ingredients to be measured, tested, and tweaked. With Liquid Intelligence, the creative force at work in Booker Dax, New York City s high-tech bar, brings readers behind the counter and into the lab. There, Arnold and his collaborators investigate temperature, carbonation, sugar concentration, and acidity in search of ways to enhance classic cocktails and invent new ones that revolutionize your expectations about what a drink can look and taste like. Years of rigorous experimentation and study―botched attempts and inspired solutions―have yielded the recipes and techniques found i
