Episodes

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 today. The book covers representative works by nearly a hundred artists and explaining the ins and outs of more than 30 modern art movements. In addition, the book addresses some of the common confusions around modern art. For example: Why is it not always easy to understand mo...

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 matters, identifying the truly important and meaningful tasks that we can execute efficiently. Through this process, our work, and life in general, is optimized, becoming productive, orderly, and meaningful.

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 are more than capable and eager to take a more prominent role in both economic and social settings. However, women face an uphill battle against a discriminatory society. The struggle has caused many women to internalize negative feelings leading to apathy or behaviors that...

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 the first male Career Golden Slam winner in tennis history. Agassi retired after the 2006 US Open , ending an illustrious 21-year run. The book is an honest, striking, and highly insightful biography of Agassi, a player and a man who challenged himself and conquered many of ...

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 these questions. The book traces the history of economics, examines today's economy through the lens of complexity economics, and explains the forces that have been driving the growth of wealth.

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 countries, increases by the day. The “black swan” events that have cropped up repeatedly throughout 2020 may very well become the norm in the post-pandemic era. How should we deal with such a future? In this book, two winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics illustrate the cut...

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: finding success in your career, finding happiness in your relationships, and staying out of jail. This book is based on that famous speech. If you want to live a meaningful life, you will certainly get inspired by this book.

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 parenting”. The book introduces the knowledge necessary to raise 0-2 year-old infants, and explains “attachment parenting,” that is, raising children in a loving environment. It tells parents how to meet their children’s needs while simultaneously feeling relaxed themselves.

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 creativity to build a new structure that enables you to build a path of least resistance to realize your dreams, replacing the "constant problem-solving" mind-set.

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 us to reconsider this singular mindset, to realize that we should learn to regard children as teachers, not automatons to be programmed with our instructions. Our children can can hold our hands and show us the art of living, giving us a pure perspective that we have lost w...

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 develop emotional intelligence. Besides helping us to raise healthy, happy children, the book also helps strengthen the parent-child bond.

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 over a lifetime. The book illustrates, social intelligence, which is a person’s capacity to understand human behavior and deal with interpersonal relations. This ability is essential for survival and has a profound impact on our sense of well-being.

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 the Brice family crisis as a case study, the authors introduce the practice of family therapy and touch on many issues families face, including long-standing imbalances, triangular relationships, and the influence of the parents’ families of origin.

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, the Fed has used various policy tools to perform its duties while taking advantage of its unique position to fight the financial crisis and help the United States revive its economy. This book reviews and analyzes the Fed's response to the 2008 financial crisis from the un...

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 sometimes pluck their own feathers until they bleed… Animals and humans share the same illnesses, and many of our behaviors and pathologies find their roots in animals. This book will uncover many fascinating and surprising phenomena that take place across the animal kingdom ...

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. Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digital pioneer. He was deft at simplifying a problem and abstracting its essence. He was also a master at building links and drawing analogies between different things to find new ways to solve complex problems....

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 characterized by keeping pace with the times and continuously updating its editions. Since its publication in 1973, it has been updated 10 times. This book can help both professional investors and senior citizens about to retire develop appropriate investment strategies. In...

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 herbal nutrition to you. Not only will you learn about the properties of common herbs, but you will acquire healthy nutrition formulas and become DIYers

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 haven't built an effective behavioral system. James Clear finds that it takes four steps to form a habit. Cue, craving, response, and reward are the pillars of every habit. This book summarizes the four laws that correspond to the four steps to help you quickly build good hab...

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 assistance of cold, costly, and clinical equipment. At the same time, extravagant suffering deprives these people of dignity and decency. Is this end the best way to say goodbye to life? With a humane vision, a doctor reflects on the health conditions of aging, bringing the topic of ...

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 with other species. This book, Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish, tells us what’s actually happening to the captive killer whales at SeaWorld, revealing the inconvenient truth behind the marine park industry. While SeaWorld offers gre...

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 life went from bad to worse when she got the news that her mother had died of AIDS. She was deeply affected. Life finally hit rock bottom when her once-trustworthy boyfriend began to deal and take illegal drugs. His violent mood swings and unpredictability scared Liz. When she...

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 the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking uses the latest discoveries in physics to provide his answers. Not only does he teach us scientific knowledge, but he also tells us that we should think about the existence and fate of human beings on a higher level. 作者简介

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 all participants cooperate in a competition and compete in a cooperation. Using game theory strategy to change the game of business, we can magically create a win-win or multi-win situations. By conveying such revolutionary thinking, this book has become one of the best-selli...