100 Ways to Boost Your Self-confidence : Believe in Yourself and Others Will Too

By Barton Goldsmith
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100 Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence is packed with practical wisdom that is easy to apply. Dr. Barton Goldsmith shows you how to believe in yourself and how to become the kind of person whom others are drawn to believe in. When you don’t believe in yourself, everything is more difficult …
100 Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence will show you how to:
• Discover the essence of your personal power and belief in yourself.
• Create the life you want with practical feel good behaviors.
• Reduce your doubts, increase your self-worth and make your world a better place.
• Improve the quality of your relationships by changing the way you think about yourself and how others think about you.
• Become your best self by employing these easy-to-use techniques.
(Excerpt from amazon.com)

有效發揮大腦潛能 : 達致學業及事業上的成功

謝家安 著
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任何知識，都包括三方面：認知者、認知過程，及認知的對象。比如我們看書，我們就是認知者，書本就是認知的對象，看書的過程就是認知的過程。忽略了任何一方面，都不能構成真正的知識。
……本書的目的，就是針對「認知者」及「認知過程」兩方面，為大家提供一些有用的資料。
本書共分甲、乙、丙三部。甲部是「開發大腦潛能」，旨在為讀者提供一些有關「認知者」(即人類大腦潛能)的最新發現，及一些開啟大腦潛能的方法。乙部是「有效的讀書方法」，旨在提供一些有關「認知過程」(即各種有效的學習技巧)的介紹。丙部是「智力測驗」，旨在助你找出你的智商(I.Q.)，從而助你獲得更多有關「認知者」(即你本身的智力)的自我認識。
(摘錄自前言)

Discover True North : A 4-Week Approach to Ignite Your Passion and Activate Your Potential

By Anne Bruce
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Created by leading motivational speaker and corporate trainer Anne Bruce, this highly effective plan helps participants discover their own "true north" in order to find a focus for success. Throughout Discover True North are invaluable exercises, worksheets, and insights for personal growth developed from Bruce's work with thousands of workshop members and clients throughout the world--from Sprint and Ben & Jerry's to The American Red Cross and the London Institute of Management.
Unlike other goal-oriented processes that call for long-range three-to-five-year life plans, working through this unique four-week formula helps unlock potential immediately--today. Readers will learn how to:
• Activate and learn to rely on the inner compass to define life direction
• Create a Life Board of Directors
• Make the critical choices that move life forward
• Pinpoint their emotional and intellectual competencies
• Discover the "Einstein Approach" to bringing forth your own genius
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自卑與超越 (What Life Should Mean to You)

A.阿德勒 (Alfred Adler) 著
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自從心理分析大師佛洛伊德以泛性論為基礎，主張人類的一切行為均可溯源於「性」以來，便有許多繼起的精神分析學家紛紛提出不同的意見，對佛洛伊德的泛性論作革命性的修正。這些新的觀念統稱為「新心理分析學派」，其創始人A．阿德勒，以「自卑情緒」為其中心思想，創立了「個體心理學」，認為人類的行為都是出於自卑感及對自卑感的克服和超越。阿德勒以平易輕鬆的筆調，對自卑感的形成，它對個人行為的影響，以及個人如何超越自卑感，將其轉變成對優越地位的追求，以獲取光輝燦爛的成就等，有非常詳盡的分析。凡是想克服自卑感，培養自己優雅氣質和高尚風度的現代人，這是一本不可不讀的名著。
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The Words of Peace: Selections from the Speeches of the Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Selected and edited by Irwin Abrams; foreword by President Jimmy Carter
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“In our private and individual lives, all of us have a need to seek for heroes. In our own personal ambitions and life—analysis of what opportunities present themselves to us, the talents that we have, the unpredictable future—we need those on whom we can depend as a pattern. How can we live an exemplary existence? The measurement of that, the pattern for it, the guide for our own lives, comes from our heroes. How can we justify our dreams? How can we confirm our beliefs? How can we prove to ourselves that what we have been taught as children is true? How can we alleviate our doubts? How can we, in our own often naturally dormant lives, be inspired to action, sometimes even at the sacrifice of our own immediate well-being? We derive those inspirations from heroes.” These are my considered thoughts about heroes, presented in a speech in 1986. The Nobel Peace Prize was established to honor the heroes of peace, and this small book presents a collection of well-chosen excerpts from their addresses at Oslo, drawn both from acceptance speeches and from the lectures which each prize winner is expected to deliver.
(Excerpt from the Foreword by Jimmy Carter, US ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)

城市與狗 (The Time of the Hero)

馬里奧·巴爾加斯·略薩 (Mario Vargas Llosa) 著
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作者馬里奧·巴爾加斯·略薩 (Mario Vargas Llosa)，1936年生於秘魯，2010年諾貝爾文學獎得主，他不僅是作家、詩人，有小說、劇本、散文隨筆、詩、文學評論、政論雜文等創作，也曾導演舞臺戲劇、電影和主持廣播電視節目及從政。

《城市與狗》是作者根據自己少年時在軍校學習時的親身經歷寫成的。「城市」是指秘魯社會，「狗」是指軍校學員。作品中鋪陳的是1950年代，作者透過校長的角色塑造，明確指出無論城市的醜惡還是狗的凶殘，其根源都在社會制度、軍事獨裁與腐朽觀念等上。他認為「祕魯社會就是一座大監獄」「人是腐朽社會的犧牲品」，因其尖銳的批判，觸怒當局而被列為禁書，然而之後卻在西文文壇大放異彩，獲獎眾多。
…… 小說《城市與狗》不只抨擊萊昂西歐·普拉多軍校對年輕軍校生施加的暴行，且從男性職責和扭曲的軍事教育下所產生的後果，正面挑戰對男性的錯誤觀念！……
想要了解二十世紀下半世紀的拉丁美洲文學，巴爾加斯·略薩於1962年出版的《城市與狗》(西班牙簡明圖書獎、文學批評獎得獎作品)更是一部基本而重要的入門作品！
(摘錄自博客來網路書店)