Todd Rose: 19 books

Combinando la ciencia y la historia con sus propias experiencias, Rose trae a la vida la historia sin narrar de cómo llegamos a aceptar la idea científicamente equivocada de que se pueden usar los promedios para entender a las personas, y ofrece una poderosa alternativa: los tres principios de individualidad. ¿Estás...

Sure to thrill readers of Stephen King, Joe Hill, and Dean Koontz—William Todd Rose’s new dark horror novella is a tale of bloody retribution that blurs the line between the waking world and the terrors of the night. There’s only one thing standing between humanity and the dark forces...

William Todd Rose reinvents the zombie story with a thrilling novella of a post-apocalyptic America where saviors are heroes . . . and heroes are killers. A fatal virus—a biowarfare experiment unleashed on an unsuspecting world—has reduced the once-mighty United States to a smattering of...

In a dark horror novella for fans of Stephen King, Joe Hill, and Dean Koontz, one unsuspecting man faces a mass murderer who’s turned the afterlife into his own terrifying playground. Some men fear their own deaths. Others dream of peace and heaven. But Albert knows exactly what he wants:...

From the dark and twisted imagination of author William Todd Rose comes twofree e-books guaranteed to thrill and delight. In each volume lies a mini-collection of stories which gives the reader a unique peek into the mind of the writer The Google+ Insider's Guide named as one of their top 32...

From the dark and twisted imagination of author William Todd Rose comes twofree e-books guaranteed to thrill and delight. In each volume lies a mini-collection of stories which gives the reader a unique peek into the mind of the writer The Google+ Insider's Guide named as one of their top 32 authors...

Discover Crossfades and Bleedovers, a pair of dystopian novellas in the same vein of Stephen King, Joe Hill, and Dean Koontz. From an author who “never lets up” (Publishers Weekly), this gripping ebook bundle features a nightmarish hellscape that will be heaven for horror fans. ** ** There’s...

Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like...

In the seventh grade, Todd Rose was suspended-not for the first time-for throwing six stink bombs at the blackboard, where his art teacher stood with his back to the class. At eighteen, he was a high school dropout, stocking shelves at a department store for $4.25 an hour. Today, Rose is a faculty...

For generations, we've been stuck with a cookie-cutter mold for success that requires us to be the same as everyone else, only better. This "standard formula" works for some people but leaves most of us feeling disengaged and frustrated. As much as we might dislike the standard formula, it seems like...

當未來多數工作被人工智慧所取代，我們還能拿什麼去競爭？ 打破平均值的迷思，不再害怕做有特色的自己。   ◎摩根大通推薦給企業主的年度選書 ◎「打破平均值」的觀念，讓被診斷為過動兒的中輟生成為哈佛博士；讓Google學會辨識頂尖人才，打造最強團隊；讓微軟揮別失落十年，風雲再起。震撼美國企業界、教育界的最新論述，讓你告別差不多的人生。   寶寶照著成長曲線發育才是正常。誰說的？ 先吃棉花糖的小孩沒有自制力。誰說的？ 數學好的人比較有邏輯推理能力。誰說的？ 由得分王所組成的籃球隊會奪冠。誰說的？ 以上都是「平均值」說的。 本書作者哈佛教育學院陶德‧羅斯博士，提出一個衝擊性的觀點：「平均值根本不存在現實生活裡。」然而，我們幾乎從出生開始，就不斷被標準給綁架。我們都不想平庸，卻拚了命想達到平均值，因為想比別人好，必須先跟別人一樣。   二○○三年的紐約尼克隊，耗費巨資組了NBA平均得分總數最高的夢幻球隊，卻連輸四個球季，他們是錯估了哪件事？Google找人才不靠google，而是靠＿＿＿＿＿？徵才顧問介紹一位藥劑師擔任新創產業的人資，他的理由是什麼呢？測試意志力的棉花糖實驗遇上收容所的孩子完全失準，為什麼？ 愛因斯坦說：「每個人都有自己的天分。如果你叫魚去爬樹，他終其一生只會覺得自己是笨蛋。」本書提出三大個體性原則，剖析如何善用個體性來爭取優勢，揮別平均值的潛暴力。 【各界推薦】 **◆ **蘇文鈺　成功大學資訊工程學系教授╱偏鄉兒少程式教學計畫「Program...

They thought they were safe... they were wrong.Outside, the city is embroiled in violent chaos: street fights rage with the ferocity of urban warfare, buildings burn unchecked, and blood flows along the sidewalks, dripping into the depths of the hungry gutters. The entire country seems to have...

Following instructions from the spirit of an executed witch, eleven-year-old Cinder de la Doom parts the veil between worlds and inadvertently conjures shadowy creatures hellbent on death and destruction. Unleashed upon an unsuspecting population, the bloodthirsty demons know that to secure their...

In the post-apocalyptic ruins, ex-prizefighter Bruno Swaggart makes his living the only way he's ever known how: one opponent, two gloves, and a bloodthirsty crowd urging him on. But the world has changed... now the undefeated champion bobs and weaves for his life, trusting that the next punch...