艾瑞克．魏納Eric Weiner: 9 books

When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. *"Have you found your God yet?"*The thought of it nags him, and prods him-and ultimately launches him on a far-flung...

Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. In this...

Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash...

「如果養育一個孩子需要全村合力協助，那麼孕育一個天才就需要傾注整個城市的力量。」非洲古諺。你以為天才，是指智商140以上嗎？你有沒有想過，天才可能是「天時地利人和」？天才，不是個人成就，而是善用城市資源的結果？此生，你就算去不了，也一定要拜讀的七座城市文化巡禮，超過30位天才靈光乍現的故事，他們不經意的創新，卻開啟了人們嶄新的未來！●雅典的陽光是什麼神奇的光，可以照耀出影響世人思維的三大哲學家？●杭州的茶該怎麼喝，才能喝出蘇東坡的才情與智慧？●充斥血汗工廠的佛羅倫斯，如何培育出源源不絕的藝術家？●終年天氣陰冷、鳥不生蛋的愛丁堡，卻是誕生醫生的搖籃？●號稱「恐怖之城」的加爾各答，天才人數世界第一，只是運氣好？●是什麼樣神奇的矽谷小車庫，可以打造出下一個賈伯斯？英國有艾倫．狄波頓，美國有艾瑞克．魏納一趟結合文學、哲理、史地、經濟的天才探察研究，知識味爆發卻讓人讀來一如城市遊記般意猶未盡紐約時報暢銷書作者艾瑞克．魏納（Eric...

Acclaimed financial journalist Eric J. Weiner reveals how foreign countries and private investors are increasingly controlling the global economy and secretly wresting power from the United States in ways that our government cannot reverse and about which the average American knows nothing. The...

In 1938, Gustav Brunn and his family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Baltimore. Brunn found a job at McCormick’s Spice Company but was fired after three days when, according to family legend, the manager discovered he was Jewish. He started his own successful business using a spice mill he brought...

From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the...

The ups and downs, the schemes and scams, the IPOs and hostile takeovers, the egos, the brilliance, the greed, and the glory--this is the story of Wall Street told by the men and women who made it happen. For those who want to understand how Wall Street became what it is, who want to know how the...

"Deschooling the Imagination: Critical Thought as Social Practice" is, first, a book that looks at what it means to be actively engaged in developing a critical/creative mindset against the prevailing ideology of our public schools. Second, it is a book about the social/cultural relationship...