“A book to break your heart and heal it.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer ? 4 starred reviews ? Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awaren
閒聊有梗，商談有物！無論 on & off、正式or非正式，透過多樣化的動筆練習和大量聆聽，學習適時適地的社交英文，活絡話題，拓展人脈！【本書特色】有人說，在高爾夫球場上敲定的生意比在會議室裡還多。的確，雖然想法或提案是在會議室裡討論與評估，但做成決定的場合往往是後來的酒吧或餐廳，因為生意和人有關，也和信任與交情有關。本書彙整了滿滿的英語洽談技巧，並提供一些適用於各個社交場合的實用詞語，協助各位不再畏懼以英語和外國人開拓／維繫關係。◎ 愈忙愈要學，愈學愈敢開口!!獻給在英語職場工作的你，於公於私你都需要加強社交英文！海外出差、接待國外客戶、與老外同事相處……上下班談論的不僅僅只有公事，三兩句講完要事之後就只好冷場？本書作者為在台灣教書近 30 年的英國人，擁有豐富的教學經驗，從西方人習慣的談話模式分析並設計出利於溝通的 tips 和學習方式，化解文化差異、突破心防，電影、文化、音樂、運動、時事皆可聊！◎ 豐富語庫，舉一反三，各種話題聊起來!!針對不同情境、談話目的；開啟話題、延續／中斷話題或回應，本書彙整了一系列「語庫」，例如：▲用來鼓勵某人多說一點的問題Why is that?Why do you say that?What makes you say that?What do you mean by that?▲用來表示同意Indeed! / Definitely! / Absolutely!Well, that’s exactly what I always say.▲用來婉拒邀約Could we do it another time?Another time perhaps? I’ve got to dash.▲希望對方保密I don’t want this to get out.You didn’t hear this from me.This is not to go outside the room.This is not to go any further of course.This is just between you and me of course.▲示意離開I’d better be off.It’s high time I left.I really must be going.I’d best be on my way.Gos
The Best We Could Do, the debut graphic novel memoir from Thi Bui, is an intimate look at one family’s journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America. Exploring the anguish
?In this persuasive book, Wagner delineates what skills are needed in a globalized era, why most American schools can’t nurture them, and how today’s schools could be transformed to cultivate tomorrow
If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently?This heartwarming and hilarious novel from the authors of The Status of All Things andYour Perfect Life features three best fri
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland--throwing our understanding of these and other stories
Laugh all the way to your next birthday … and beyond! We all age, but why grumble about it? If you’re still here, have some fun and enjoy life. The best way you can do that is through lau
Why do we do the things we do?Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at i
Sharon Wismer--reef ecologist and mom--is the best tour guide a kid could have for a visit to the underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Alice Wong's richly detailed, accurate watercolors take a boy and girl snorkeling to see the fishes that maintain the ecological balance between the corals and their main competitor, algae. Without the fish species that brush, crop, scrape, excavate, and browse the algae, coral reefs would die. A coral reef is a brilliant and colorful example of how a complex ecosystem functions and why its keystone species are critical to its health.The Great Barrier Reef is one of Earth's most celebrated natural treasures. Here children discover why the reef is threatened and what we can all do to help protect it. Endorsements are coming from Charlie Veron ("the godfather of coral," featured in the 2017 film Chasing Coral) and David Bellwood, a world-renowned reef fish ecologist whose lab is the source of much of the information in this book.Keepers of
Discovering God is one of the greatest journeys we could ever go on in life. It is a never-ending quest which goes all the way onto eternity and the best time to do so is now. If you are reading this
NOW IN PAPERBACK--The most important tool for the future of humanity. More data can't solve all our problems: this is a guide to the unique ability humans have to frame new questions and so get better results than anyone could have previously imagined.We long thought that the best decisions are based on data and lots of it. FRAMERS is an investigation of both the limits of data-driven artificial intelligence and a user's manual for the irreplaceable ability that has enabled Homo sapiens' most enduring platforms of prosperity and happiness. Cukier, Mayer-Schönberger, and de Véricourt define exactly what is the most important thing humans will always do better than robots. Frames are mental models of the world that we use to understand problems and to come up with new or refined solutions. As a tool, framing has always been with us. But as long as we were focused on traits like memory and reasoning that were more obviously essential to human cognition, framing didn't get much attention.
If you're thinking about buying this book, it's probably because it feels like something's missing in your career.Guess what? It could be YOU.Whether you're living for the weekends or counting the minutes until 5 pm every day, life is too short to wish it away because you feel stuck in your job. The good news is that you have the power to stop living on autopilot and turn your career around.Follow your passion, find your purpose, and do what you love have joined the parade of bland directives that aren't doing much to actually help you figure out what you're meant to do with your career. Instead, they only create more confusion. If all we had to do is follow our bliss . . . why aren't we blissful yet? The truth is, the best career is not one where you only do what you love, but one where you honor who you are.In You Turn, counterterrorism professional turned career coach Ashley Stahl shares the strategies she's used to help thousands ditch their Monday blues, get clarity on what work l
Sometimes the best thing we can do for our loved ones is listen and be present as long as they need us.Giraffe and Zebra meet every day under their favorite tree to walk to the watering hole. But today, Giraffe isn't there! Where could he be? Zebra spots him hiding in the tree; Giraffe has seen a spider and is scared silly. Zebra patiently talks to Giraffe and does the very best thing: supports Giraffe for as long as Giraffe needs it.A sweet story about the power of friendship, kindness, and empathy that helps us face our fears no matter how silly they may seem.
Shared family holidays at Creek House have been the backdrop to Millie's summers since forever. Hanging out with the other kids - Matt, Charlie, Jem and her best friend Kat - has made it her favourite time of the year. But this holiday things are different - the childhood games that once filled their days have lost their appeal to everyone except Millie.It's not until the final night that the others agree to a game of hide and seek. But in the time it takes Millie to count to twenty, Kat vanishes. One year on, and struggling to come to terms with the events of last summer, Millie persuades the others to return to Creek House.It's meant to give them closure, but it could be a chance to find out what happened. After all, people don't just disappear, do they? A tightly plotted thriller, perfect for fans of Karen McManus, Holly Jackson, THE GREAT GODDEN and WE WERE LIARS.
Yuji Itadori is resolved to save the world from cursed demons, but he soon learns that the best way to do it is to slowly lose his humanity and become one himself!In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of Jujutsu Sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural!Yuji Itadori and the first-years have defeated two of the reincarnated Death Painting curses and recovered one of Sukuna's fingers.Due to their success, some have been recommended for a promotion to Grade 1. Later, the story flashes back in time to when Satoru Gojo and the nefarious Suguru Geto were second-year students at Jujutsu High! What went wrong back then that led Geto astray?
Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to reach long-term abatement targets? How do we discount the long-term costs and benefits of climate change? This provocative book argues that these are the wrong sorts of questions to ask because they don't take into account the policies that have already been implemented. Instead, it urges us to concentrate on existing policies and tools by showing how the development of carbon markets could dramatically reduce world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, triggering policies to build a new low-carbon energy system while restructuring the way agriculture interacts with forests. This provides an innovative perspective on how a post-Kyoto international climate regime could emerge from agreements between the main GHG emitters capping their emissions and building an international carbon market.
We've all been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But at the cutting-edge science of emotion, feelings are every bit as important to your success as thinking. You make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat for breakfast to how you should invest, and not one of them could be made without the essential component of emotion. It has long been held that thinking and feeling are separate and opposing forces in our behavior. But as best-selling author of Subliminal Leonard Mlodinow tells us, extraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking.How can you connect better with others? How can you improve your relationship to frustration, fear, and anxiety? What can you do to live a happier life? The answers lie in understanding emotions. Taking us on a journey from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how o
Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to reach long-term abatement targets? How do we discount the long-term costs and benefits of climate change? This provocative book argues that these are the wrong sorts of questions to ask because they don't take into account the policies that have already been implemented. Instead, it urges us to concentrate on existing policies and tools by showing how the development of carbon markets could dramatically reduce world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, triggering policies to build a new low-carbon energy system while restructuring the way agriculture interacts with forests. This provides an innovative perspective on how a post-Kyoto international climate regime could emerge from agreements between the main GHG emitters capping their emissions and building an international carbon market.
Confronting Climate Change is a guide to the risks, dilemmas, and opportunities of the emerging political era, in which the impacts of a global warming could affect all regional, public and even individual decisions. Written by a renowned group of scientists, political analysts and economists, all with direct experience in climate change related deliberations, Confronting Climate Change is a survey of the best available answers to three vital questions: What do we know so far about the foreseeable dangers of climate change? How reliable is our knowledge? What are the most rewarding ways to respond? The book begins by exploring the key linkages and feedbacks that connect the risks of rapid climate change to other important environmental, economic and political problems of our time. Recognizing persistent uncertainties in the scientific understanding of climate change, the book draws attention to those areas of research which may reveal surprises which could change the sense of political
