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Novice writers have doubts when starting a novel: where to begin? Experienced writers might wonder why their finished novels aren’t selling? The book Techniques of the Selling Writer summarizes the experience of professional ...

This amazing book, serving as a core to John Truby's 30-year experience in teaching story creation and writing, has continuously been on sale for more than a decade. It contains a collection of secrets in story writing that h...

In this book, Josh Waitzkin, a famous former chess prodigy and later Tai Chi world champion, uses life stories to share his unique insights into the art of learning. He offers a series of principles for improving performance ...

Because you often see and hear about violent occurrences in the news, are you anxious? Do you think we live in a violent era? In this book, Steven Pinker points out that continuous historical development has led to reductions...

If you've never found a time management tool or method that works for you, try Bullet Journaling, an amazing note-taking technique that is used and shared by more than 10 million people around the world. All you need to resta...

What is the conscious way of parenting? When raising children, parents should accept their child’s essential self with an open and respectful mind, allowing them to enjoy the right to be themselves. At the same time, parents ...

Thanks to today's rapid development of gene sequencing, cloning, and other genetic technologies, the Human Genome Project has completed the sequencing of all human genes. The quest to decipher the human genetic code seems to ...

What is Ebola? Where did it come from? How can humans fight it? This nonfiction book is full of real stories, as the author truthfully tells the tale of Ebola virus. After publication, the book has been at the top of the New ...

This book is a selection of pieces from a column written by talk show queen, Oprah Winfrey, in The Oprah Magazine. In the book, Winfrey looks back on her decades of struggling and searching. While doing this, she honestly ask...

When you think of cities, what comes to mind? Is it the high cost of living, traffic congestion, or air pollution? This book navigates through human history to dispel the misconceptions about urban life. Using specific cities...

Natasha's Dance is a study of Russian culture and the origins of the national character. The book explores the difference between European civilization and folk elements in Russian culture, the confrontation between "civilize...

Unlike earlier approaches, in this major work Freud considers sociology through the lens of psychoanalysis. He identifies a connection between the foundation of civilization and human’s most basic instincts. Civilization brin...

We always have a choice. They determine our survival. As an Auschwitz survivor, Edith Eva Eger, author of The Choice: Embrace the Possible, tells us that everyone still has a choice even when imprisoned in that horrendous dea...

When we usually think of philosophy as a problematic and impractical field of study. However, philosophy isn't only the way intellectuals play games with words in their ivory-towers. Philosophers are fully aware of life's pra...

How to build a well-lived, joyful life? You can find the answer in one of the most popular courses at Stanford University––the life design class. The life design class teaches you to make career plans using design thinking, a...

This book emphasizes on describing effective learning rather than explaining it or giving a theory about it. Children have a unique way of learning that fits their condition. It blends in with each of their game and experimen...

In life, solitude is seemingly a negative state that many people criticize and fear. Solitary people are regarded as misfits. In fact, in many situations, solitude has a very positive aspect. It can help us be introspective a...

Nowadays, almost everyone's goal is to deal efficiently with all the many matters in a healthy work-life balance. We are all always working against the clock, absorbing different methods of time management, and hoping to sque...

While traditional gyms make us physically fit, Brain Gym solves problems involving anxiety, stress, depression, concentration, memory, creativity, and other issues on a case-by-case basis. In this book, the author introduces ...

As human beings, we are social animals. And because of this, our opinions and behavior are always influenced by society and people. Such influences can be powerful enough to lead to actions that are beyond comprehension. But ...

This book reveals the secret recipe of a master negotiator, Roger Dawson. It summarizes Dawson's 30 years' experience of negotiation, and it is recommended by top universities like Yale and Princeton. The techniques in this b...

Through writing, we can tell our stories, share our feelings, organize our thoughts, heal our wounds, perceive the present, and appreciate the meaning of life...... Considering the significance of writing, how can ordinary pe...

If you frequently display symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia, depression, you may be suffering from trauma. People afflicted by trauma feel like being trapped in a confined darkroom and can see no way out. So what can we do t...

How do you tell a good story? Story is the must-read classic from the “Screen-writing godfather”, Robert McKee, which explains how to write a screenplay. It gets rid of preconceived ideas about the industry, and digs deeply i...