We live in an "escalator world" filled with shortcuts, quick fixes, and distractions that make it all too easy to slide into procrastination, compromise, and mediocrity. How do successful people stay focused and achieve results? Learn to tackle the work that leads to real success.
With proverbs and precepts, saws, adages and axioms. Polished over years of use, here are thousands of sayings that are truer now than the day they were coined. All collected by Barbara Ann Kipfer, who has the sensibility of a poet, the outlook of a practical philosopher, the obsession of a list maker.
Don Oberdorfer has written a gripping narrative history of Korea's travails and triumphs over the past three decades. The Two Koreas places the tensions between North and South within a historical context, with a special emphasis on the involvement of outside powers.
Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street unfurls a gripping chronicle of the 2008 financial collapse, drawing on 180 interviews with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs. Lowenstein looks to the roots of the crisis to reveal how America succumbed to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages. Combining deep analysis with sizzling narrative, The End of Wall Street charts the…
THROUGH A WINDOW is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of a community, of birth and death, sex and love, power and war. It reads like a novel, but it is one of the most important scientific works ever published. The community is Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tangganyika, where the principal residents are chimpanzees and one extraordinary woman who is their student, protector, and hist…
ubtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. 'Go and see "Waiting for Godot". At the worst y…
Buah dan sayuran sesungguhnya merupakan makanan bergizi yang dibutuhkan oleh manusia untuk menjaga kesehatannya. Berbagai jenis buah dan sayuran ada di sekitar kita dan biasa dikonsumsi untuk memenuhi kebutuhan nutrisi kita sehari-hari. Di antara buah dan sayuran yang kita kenal ternyata di samping bermanfaat bagi tubuh, tetapi juga sekaligus berbahaya, terutama jika kita salah dalam mengolahny…