《免疫解碼》暢銷作者暨普立茲將得主麥特．瑞克托最新力作！比爾‧蓋茲盛讚：「將科學概念帶入生活。」靈感從何而來？創造力如何運作？我們佩服創作者，而他們的祕密是什麼？如何才能盡情發揮我們的創造潛力？本書是對人類創造力奧祕的最新突破性調查，也是我們如何創造的故事。★Porchlight商業圖書獎得主（創新&創造力類）★★亞馬遜書店「Kindle優秀非小說讀物」（Great on Kindle）★◆《免疫解碼》暢銷作者暨普立茲將得主麥特．瑞克托最新力作！◆比爾‧蓋茲盛讚：「將科學概念帶入生活。」◆作者集結全球各地對創造力來源的最新研究，包括神經學家、心理學家、天文學家和神學家的觀點，統整這些發現與世上偉大創作者的經世洞見，透過一個個故事，解構創造力的本質，說明當緊急而必要時，創造力如何在我們個人身上顯現，更等著我們隨時取用。◆深度訪談各領域深富創造力的代表人物，現身說法分享各自的創作心法歷程，如：馬友友、桑塔納（Carlos Santana）、吉登斯（Rhiannon Giddens）等音樂人、演化生物學家道金斯（Richard Dawkins）、諾貝爾生醫獎得主艾利森（James P. Allison）等科學家，以及NBA金州勇士隊總教練柯爾（Steve Kerr）、喜劇導演阿帕托（Judd Apatow）、普立茲獎得主漫畫家特魯多（Garry Trudeau）、美國陸軍參謀部主任皮亞特（Walter E. Piatt）等。◆瑞克托以實際的角度提出問題：成功的創作者具備哪些特質？創造力在什麼條件下蓬勃發展？我們如何才能跨越創意障礙？本書的終極理念是：創造力比許多人想的更容易獲得，創造力是我們必要、美麗且充沛不絕的自然天性。「我在這裡傳達的重點是，創造力的核心並不是看結果或看影響力。這與最終大局無關，甚至與過程無關。那些是次要的。創造力首先必須來自個人靈感。它始於一股衝動、一種直覺、一種想法、一個火花。創造力並非難以捉摸、曲高和寡，也不是幸運者或少數人的專利。馬友友完成了偉大的創作，但他感受到的正是我們所有人都能感受到的：靈感。」──本書作者 麥特．瑞克托創造力比許多人想的更容易獲得，是我們必要、美麗且充沛不絕的自然天性。精采揭示我們如何創造的故事，比爾．蓋茲盛讚：「將科學概念帶入生活。」創造力定義了人類的經驗，激發出藝術、科學、科技、商業、體育等近乎所有活動的成就和創新。
The book offers a bridge into the critical understanding of modern Chinese art through its encounter with the world beyond China's borders. David Clarke demonstrates Chinese art's interconnections wit
For Drucker, management was a moral force, not merely a tool at the service of the amoral market . . ."Maciariello and Linkletter provide a very thoughtful and challenging journey in understanding Dru
Awaken your inner eye and strengthen your psychic senses with the tarot. Drawing on decades of experience as a professional reader, bestselling author Mat Auryn presents a comprehensive guide to unlocking your psychic potential. He shows you how to unite traditional tarot techniques and your own intuition, which will enhance your readings with astounding levels of accuracy and insight. With 78 exercises, meditations, and rituals accessible for practitioners of every experience level, The Psychic Art of Tarot provides step-by-step instructions for understanding your unique psychic style and mastering an array of skills. Explore the arts of mediumship, soul alignment, auras, energy work, scrying, and more.
To Know the Real Drucker: Eight Articles Will Help You is a collection of eight articles by Peter Drucker: “The Unfashionable Kierkegaard” (1949) and its introduction (1992), “The New World-View” (1957), “From Analysis to Perception: The New World View” (1989), “Reflections of a Social Ecologist” (1992), “What Is a Functioning Society?” (1942), “From Rousseau to Hitler” (1942), “The Human Situation Today” (1957), and “Management as Social Function and Liberal Art” (1989). Readers can find the source of each articles in the table of contents and editor’s note per article. Of the eight articles, only the last one is from Drucker’s works on management. The other seven are from his books on society, politics, and economics. Although the world has hailed him as the “Father of Modern Management,” he considered himself a “social ecologist.” This book will play an indispensable role in explaining the reason for that and in further understanding the foundation of faith and worldview which Druck
本書特色南台灣必遊景點 Nine Things One Must Experience in Southern Taiwan藉由夜生活、藝術文創、客家文化、靜心之旅、海洋之美、原民文化、古蹟及生態之旅與台灣茶飲等九大主題，暢遊南台灣必遊景點。The nine main things one must experience in southern Taiwan are: nightlife activities, art, Hakka culture, places suitable for tranquility and meditation, beautiful ocean views, aboriginal cultures, historic sites, ecological tours, and Taiwanese tea culture. 實用句型及詞彙 Useful Sentence Patterns and Vocabulary依各單元主題，整理出最精華的句型及詞彙，讓學習者運用基本句型，替換詞彙，旅遊時能馬上派上用場。Each unit deals with the most essential sentence patterns and vocabulary, so the reader can master basic sentence patterns and vocabulary substitution drills. These grammar exercises can be used immediately when traveling. 文化導覽深度遊In-depth Guided Cultural Tours針對各單元內容，延伸相關文化知識，滿足學習者需求，深度了解當地風土民情。Each unit provides knowledge relevant to the needs of travelers, promoting a deeper understanding of local customs and cultures. 文化體驗動手做 Hands-on Cultural Experiences透過實際活動操作，讓您更深入體驗當地的人文精神。例如 : 泡茶、書法體驗、彩繪紙傘、手作琉璃串珠
ABOUT THE MEMOIRS OF MISS CHIEF EAGLE TESTICKLE: VOL. 1INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story, in her own words. And, in doing so, to hear the whole history of Turtle Island anew. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island is a genre-demolishing work of genius, the imagined history of a legendary figure through which profound truths emerge—a deeply Cree and gloriously queer understanding o
Author Waka T. Brown and artist Yuko Jones join forces for this picture book about a young girl who learns to appreciate life's imperfections when her grandmother teachers her about the Japanese art form kintsugi.Miki Amelia Masuda liked everything in her life to be perfect. Her room was immaculately clean. She only ate round cookies, not the broken ones. And if a stuffed animal had a tear in it, she couldn't bear to look at it. So when she accidentally drops and breaks her favorite teacup, she's devastated. How can a broken teacup ever be perfect again?Days later, Miki's grandmother, Obaachan, presents Miki with the fixed teacup. But it's not perfect! Each crack is highlighted by a gold streak of paint--almost as if to show off the imperfections!What follows is one girl's journey to understanding that life isn't always perfect. Through the art of kintsugi, Waka and Yuko show readers--and Miki--that rips, cracks, and tears have their own stories to tell, ones that are meaningful in the
Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of blank screens in cinema. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's film-philosophy, author Tanya Shilina-Conte provides a detailed examination of non-images from early cinema to post-cinema. In other arts, absence has often been understood in terms of negative characteristics such as lacuna or lack, vacuum or void. Guided by a film-philosophical methodology and experimental modes of cinema rather than a thematic interpretation of its narrative forms, Shilina-Conte advances the concept of the filmmaking machine. She posits the filmmaking machine as an abstract art machine in constant production, which shifts our understanding of absence in cinema from negative to generative theorization. In the course of machinic production, dissociation ceases to be a negative characteristic of failure or incapacity and becomes a creative and capacious gesture of artistic experimentation. Further, she argues that blank screens function as points of deterritor
In this brilliant presentation of a revolutionary thinker's life, the picture book becomes an art formAs far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men . . . Charles Darwin was, above all else, an independent thinker who continues even now to influence the way we look at the natural world. His endless curiosity and passion for detail resulted in a wealth of notebooks, diaries, correspondence, and published writings that Peter S!s transforms into a visual treasure trove. A multilayered journey through Darwin’s world, The Tree of Life begins with his childhood and traces the arc of his life through university and career, following him around the globe on the voyage of the Beagle, and home to a quiet but momentous life devoted to science and family. S!s uses his own singular vision to create a gloriously detailed panorama of a genius’s trajectory through investigating and understanding the mysteries of nature. In pictures executed in fine pen and ink and lush wat
From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his longtime collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers' understanding of the land called North America.For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years, and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story, in her own words. And, in doing so, to hear the whole history of Turtle Island anew. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island is a genre-demolishing work of genius, the imagined history of a legendary figure through which a profound truths emerge—a deeply Cree and gloriously queer understanding of our shared world, its past, its present, and its possibilities.Volume Two, which takes
The significance of Fong Chung-Ray’s artistic oeuvre lies in his contribution both to the global art scene and the representation of Chinese artistic traditions in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century California. As an ambassador for art, he has played a crucial role in fostering cultural exchange between China and the West, and his artworks have introduced richly diverse artistic traditions, techniques and themes to international audiences, promoting a deeper understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture.This anniversary publication presents a careful selection of Fong’s work tracing his artistic career and stylistic development over the last 60 years. It is a testament to the master’s contribution to late-twentieth-century Chinese painting in a global context.藝術家馮鍾睿的創作夙負盛名。二十世紀晚期至二十一世紀初，馮氏以中國傳統為基礎的作品於美國加州藝壇獨樹一幟，其畫風及作畫方式多元豐碩，展現出他對融合中西藝術的永恆追求。馮氏以自身創作於海外積極傳播中華文化，在推動跨文化交流方面扮演了重要的角色，幫助國際社會更深入地理解和欣賞中國藝術。是次富有紀念意義的出版物包括橫跨馮鍾睿整個創作生涯的多幅作品，回顧他過去六十年的藝術成就和風格發展，對這位大師在二十世紀晚期中國畫壇所作出的貢獻予
Though all our brains look the same, every brain works differently. This Is My Brain! shows readers that understanding how different brains feel and learn can help us connect with others . . . and keep our own brains happy! Through humorous, engaging text and brightly colored art, readers are introduced to the fundamentals of how our brains work, how our unique neurology influences how we think and act, and how the world is a better place when we understand each other’s brains and use them collectively.BRAINS ARE COOL: Whether it’s a fascination with the way brains look or how they work, kids enjoy learning about the human body, specifically the brain!UNDERSTANDING NEURODIVERSITY: Neurodiversity is something we are hearing more and more about. Parents and teachers are realizing the importance of helping kids understand that thinking differently is normal and that it is important for each of us to embrace our own brain’s uniqueness as well as value alternative ways of thinking by others
