Donald : 3901 books

The world’s most profitable companies share two things in common: quality of management and management capital. Combining leadership passion for creating growth and profitability (quality of management) and the effective deployment of resources for accelerating growth (management capital) is the...

Lessons on making effective, inspiring decisions from case studies of former, real-life leaders in times of crisis. Anyone can claim to be a leader in times of calm, but crisis situations sift the true visionaries from the false ones. Recent events in global affairs make it increasingly apparent...

Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles? Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most...

A step-by-step guide to delivering compelling online presentations from a webinar expert and coach. We’ve all attended dry, forgettable webinars, but few people know the secrets of truly engaging audiences online. In Webinar Master, Donald H. Taylor shares his methodology for delivering great...

A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions-engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning-to show how professionals really go about solving problems.The best professionals, Donald Schön maintains, know more than they can put into words. To...

The 1990s were a decade characterized by optimism about a great future that lay ahead for generations to follow. Major challenges were approached with a realization that the world leadership had the capacity not only to meet them, but to turn them into unprecedented opportunities for global social...

Tourism is booming world wide - it makes up a massive part of the global economy. Donald G. Reid's book focuses on tourism in developing and less-developed countries. He examines its social and environmental impact and offers a timely critical analysis of the part it plays in globalisation.*BR**BR*Many...

This is the first comprehensive critical evaluation of the use of rational choice theory in political science. Writing in an accessible and nontechnical style, Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro assess rational choice theory where it is reputed to be most successful: the study of collective action, the...

Something happened in early 2011 that hasn't happened in decades, perhaps centuries-and we didn't even notice it. That is, we didn't see it for what it was. Massive unrest from Tunisia to Egypt to Libya rocked the Arab world and threw the globe into political crisis. Within days, an earthquake-tsunami-nuclear...

Rising costs and demographic realities render the current American health care system unsustainable. The situation presents a particular challenge for Christians who recognize that access to health care is a basic requirement of a just social order. Physician Donald Condit, drawing on an impressive...

This book exposes the reality that our twentieth-century government is no match for twenty-first-century problems and proposes a solution. In this timely and compelling book, Donald F. Kettl demonstrates how the process of governance has fallen out of sync with the problems the government is...

The cost manager/quantity surveyor plays a pivotal role in the financial and contract management of construction projects, although the exact nature of the service they provide depends on the project employer’s terms of engagement. This can mean acting as consultant in a range of roles including...

正念是經過科學檢證，用來處理情緒最有效的方法   國際正念專家唐納德‧艾特曼，整合正念和最先進的神經科學， 告訴大家只要每天花幾分鐘，就能修正自己根深柢固的習性和模式。     正念可以幫助你放下過度思維、分析與批判的心，幫助你觀照造成困擾的情緒、接納自己，理解人生本質，找到自身價值，讓你從被困住的慣性思維中轉移開來。 用正念重新啟動你的生活，清理舊的情緒垃圾，幫助你尋得領悟、寧靜和滿足。   【為什麼正念的方法對處理情緒最有用？】 正念可以： **․幫助我們專注當下：**一份哈佛的研究發現，人在參與當下時最快樂，正念可以讓我們把注意力從過去的創傷或未來的焦慮中轉移，活在當下。 **․放下執念，培養接納的狀態：**生命不可預測，又不停改變，接納能讓我們安然度過生命中的風暴，並打從心底坦然接受周遭發生的事和內心的感受。 **․確立我們人生的目標：**留意做合乎目標的選擇，可以讓我們更用心生活，更重視利他和慈悲，讓每天產生的情緒垃圾減到最低，不會有情緒爛攤子要收拾。 **․幫助我們向內觀照自己的想法和情緒：**省思可以不讓自己的想法和情緒亂竄，也能看清自己的欲望和貪求，不讓自己陷入衝動反應。讓人生往全新的方向前進。 **․理解苦的本質：**可以讓我們理解情緒從何而來，拔除讓我們不快樂的原因，也能對他人更慈悲。 **․培養讓最深層價值成為重心的夥伴關係：**生命的目的，是讓最深層的價值成為重心，把這個價值帶入與他人共建的夥伴關係中，成長將超乎你的想像。   【正念的力量已席捲全世界】 正念源自佛教，但它對人內在平靜的功用近年來已為科學驗證，並發展出各種技巧，廣泛為世界各大企業、醫學界、教育界、運動領域……所使用。   最新科學研究顯示，情緒會影響我們的細胞，開啟和關閉負責免疫系統和老化的基因，它的影響，甚至可能跨越世代。   古老的佛教智慧＋現代的腦神經科學技巧，能幫助你排解負面情緒，迅速減壓，帶你超越人生困境，實現更充實、更有意義的生活。   GOOGLE、高盛、麻州大學醫學院、哈佛大學醫學院……都在使用正念幫助員工及病患提高專注力、改善情緒管理能力、人際溝通能力、解除焦慮、憂鬱、睡眠障礙，增強免疫系統，並提高大腦效能。   ※本書適合所有對情緒問題有困擾的人，對佛教正念智慧感興趣卻不得其門而入的人、修行已有相當根基，想更進一步提升的人。   【本書特色】 ․每章末附簡單易行的實用正念練習工具，每天只要幾分鐘，就能幫助你清理情緒，從慣性思維中解放。 ․提供大量的科學舉證，讓你對正念可以有更現代化、更簡單易懂的體會。 ․結合豐富的個人案例及體會，讓你對如何以正念的方式生活，有更深入、貼近的體悟。   【誠心推薦】 唐納德‧艾特曼的去情緒雜物生活工具可能改寫你的腦部迴路，使你的心靈更澄澈，克服對極限的恐懼，改善你的人際關係，甚至消除當下的情緒雜物。——傑佛瑞‧舒瓦茲，醫師，《你不是你的腦》作者   正念專家唐納德‧艾特曼的嶄新力作，對於正念和情緒健康之間的關係帶來新的洞見，如果想透過正念使心靈成長與療癒，那麼本書提供的工具正是你所需要的。——艾瑞克‧梅賽爾，《生活目標重新啟動營》作者   本書提供簡單有效的工具以提升你的能力並放下情緒的包袱。——約翰‧包爾多尼，《以身作則展現勇氣和領導力》作者     作者/譯者簡介 作者簡介： 唐納德．艾特曼（Donald...

Financial markets, processes, and instruments are often difficult to fathom; the credit crisis highlights both their importance and their fragility. Donald MacKenzie is one of the most perceptive analysts of the workings of the financial world. In this book, he argues that economic agents and markets...