The story of modern artist's rebellions and innovations is a history of artistic revolution. 'What Are You Looking At?' reviews more than 150-years of creative development from the Impressionism of the 1860s to the art of tod...
Essentialism is a systematic approach, streamlining work and simplifying our lives. It’s about figuring out essential activities rather than advocating doing less for the sake of it. The method eliminates insignificant matter...
Statistically, the higher up the corporate ladder you are, the fewer the women you’ll find. Is this because women are any less competent or perhaps because they are unwilling to take leadership positions? Of course not. Women...
Andre Agassi was an American professional tennis player who won 60 tournaments over the course of his career, including 8 Grand Slam titles. His career was capped by his epic victory at the French Open in 1999. That made him ...
Over the past 250 years, there has been an explosion of human wealth. More than 97% of all wealth ever in existence was created during this period. Why did this happen? What forces have driven it? The Origin of Wealth answers...
In today’s world, the problems brought about by the wealth gap, the dilemma of globalization, and the slowdown of economic growth can be seen everywhere. Inequality between countries, as well as inequality within these countr...
Professor Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard Business School once gave a speech for the school’s graduates, titled: How Will You Measure Your Life ? He applied business theory to life planning and focused on three topics: find...
Dr. Sears combines his almost forty years of clinical practice as a paediatrician, his experience raising eight children with his wife, Martha, and development psychology’s “attachment theory” to put together “attachment pare...
The book states that if you repeatedly fail to change your life it’s because you have an odd life structure, not because you have a lack of willpower. An invisible force pulls you around and creates stress. But you can use cr...
As parents, what do children bring to us? Often we see ourselves as forming our progeny as artists sculpting a statue from marble. We impart our desires and vision onto a blank canvas and produce what we desire. Ferrucci asks...
Effective discipline is realized when parents use a no-drama approach instead of punishments and threats with their children. This book provides a simple, practical method for helping our children to build their brains and de...
Daniel Goleman popularized the concept of "emotional intelligence," which overturned the traditional view of intelligence, which believes that people are born with a fixed amount of intelligence whose level does not change ov...
The Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy is a classic work in the field of family psychotherapy. It tells the story of how family therapists guided the Brice family out of their collective crisis. Using t...
Since its establishment, the Federal Reserve has taken on two important missions: to maintain macroeconomic stability and financial stability. The institution was born out of historic financial crises. For more than 100 years...
It may surprise you to know that dinosaur fossils contain information about cancer, house cats can develop psychosomatic symptoms, wallabies will sneak into poppy fields in the middle of the night to “get high,” and parrots s...
Claude Elwood Shannon is widely regarded as the father of information theory. His research has given birth to an entirely new theory on information and communication, laying the foundations for the information age today. Shan...
If ever there was a book that successfully kept up with the changing dynamics of the financial market, it was A Random Walk Down Wall Street. As a best-selling investment classic in the world for nearly 40 years, this book is...
Coffee, black pepper, mint, ginger, garlic... These herbs common in our lives are often consumed as beverages, condiments, and side dishes. But we know very little about their properties. This book will open up a new world of...
Why do so many of us fail to lose weight? Why can't we go to bed early and wake up early? Is it because of a lack of determination? Not at all. The thing is, we are doing it the wrong way. More specifically, it's because we h...
It is a brave work that ruminates on aging and people’s dying. In modern society, the old become medicalized, regarded as frail and preparing for death. Older people approaching the end hold on to life with only the assistanc...
Marine parks are popular places to visit to learn more about sea creatures and explore the secrets of the sea. Their animal performances are always the biggest draw, giving visitors the illusion that humans live in harmony wi...
Liz Murray was born in a New York slum. Her parents were desperately poor and addicted to drugs. She started skipping class. Eventually Liz dropped out of school and began living on the streets. Her life was miserable. But li...
Is there a God? Should we colonize space? Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? The answers to these big questions about the universe and ourselves have always fascinated millions of people. In the book Brief Answers to t...
This book proposes the theory of co-opetition in the game of business from the perspective of game theory. Using authentic business cases, this book demonstrates that the essence of business operation is War and Peace where a...