The Leader Phrase Book: 3000+ Powerful Phrases That Put You In Command

Patrick Alain
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The Leader Phrase Book contains more than 3,000 dynamic phrases that will enable you to prevail in virtually all of life's important situations. You will be in command of your words and always stay ahead of the game. With this passport to success, you will begin a new journey on which you are among the charismatic, the untouchable...the elite.

This easy-to-use reference book will give you a new image you can take pride in helping you to quickly reach your full leadership potential. You will have all the weapons to effectively succeed whenever vibrant, forceful language is required. It works like magic!

The Leader Phrase Book will teach you how to:
• Speak like a leader
• Master all conversations
• Attain a charismatic presence
• Gain the respect of others
• Achieve a lightning-fast rhetoric
• Find the right phrases instantly
• Argue effectively
• Be the envy of all you meet

The Leader Phrase Book is the culmination of ten years of Patrick's personal research on how leaders communicate. It is the summation of his efforts to share one of the most invaluable skills in life: "how to put yourself in command."

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

美的沉思: 中國藝術思想芻論

蔣勳 著
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在中國近一百年混亂而徬徨的歷史處境裏，要留下心來，思考有關那古老中國曾信守過的，堅持過的生命的理想、美的規則，有時，連自己也要不禁懷疑起來罷。然而，那些玉石、陶器、青銅、竹簡、帛畫、石雕、敦煌、山水……猶歷歷在目，它們何嘗不是通過了烽火戰亂的年代從那最暗鬱的歷史底層，努力地仰望著，仰望著那永恒不息的美的光華，而這一[美的沉思]的工作，便是我對自己許諾給這民族的一願罷。

(摘錄自中國圖書網.台灣)

Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader

Dianna Booher
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It may be difficult to define, but we all know presence when we encounter it. Someone walks into the room and people step aside. Heads turn. When those with presence speak, people listen. When they ask, people answer. When they lead, people follow. People with presence look confident and comfortable, speak persuasively, think clearly even under pressure, and act with intention and integrity. Presence is not something you have to be born with. It’s not about status symbols or position. It’s not about who you are but about how you are. And it’s something anyone can learn. Award-winning speaker and consultant Dianna Booher provides scores of practical tips on the physical qualities, communication techniques, thought processes, and attitudes that underlie powerful personal presence. This comprehensive guide will enable readers to become compelling leaders no matter what their current position. Booher shows how to master the dozens of small and significant things that work together to convey personal presence. She details how dress, body language, manners, and even your surroundings enhance credibility and build rapport. You’ll learn to use voice and language to demonstrate competence and deliver clear and memorable messages, think strategically and organize ideas coherently, and relate to others in ways that convey genuine interest, respect, good humor, and reliability. Personal presence can help you get a date, a mate, a job, or a sale. It can help you lead a meeting, a movement, an organization, or a nation. Presence can take you wherever you want to go. With Dianna Booher’s expert, entertaining advice, you can have the same kind of influence as the most successful CEOs, celebrities, and civic leaders.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

中國古代詩歌與節日習俗

韓廣澤, 李岩齡 著
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本書分別介紹了在古代詩歌中多有描述的節日：元旦、立春、元宵節、上祀節、清明節、端午節、七夕節、中秋節、重陽節、冬至節、祭灶節、除夕。

書中詩作既有節日歡情的描摹，也有人物心態的寫照；既有歷史變遷的回顧，也有幸福憧憬的展望；既有辟邪去穢的祈禱，也有求吉祀祥的呼喚。

(摘錄自書中內容提要)

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Paul Collier
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In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages within each of these nations between reformers and corrupt leaders--and the corrupt are winning. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, pointing to a set of traps that ensnare these countries, including civil war, a dependence on the extraction and export of natural resources, and bad governance. Standard solutions do not work, he writes; aid is often ineffective, and globalization can actually make matters worse, driving development to more stable nations. What the bottom billion need, Collier argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations. If failed states are ever to be helped, the G8 will have to adopt preferential trade policies, new laws against corruption, new international charters, and even conduct carefully calibrated military interventions. Collier has spent a lifetime working to end global poverty. In The Bottom Billion, he offers real hope for solving one of the great humanitarian crises facing the world today.

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消費社會 (The Consumer Society )

波德里亞 (Jean Baudrillard) 著
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鮑德里亞的著作《消費社會》是對當代社會學的一大貢獻。作者圍繞消費這個中心對包括美國在內的西方社會進行了詳盡而深刻的剖析，以其獨特的見解，向人們揭示了大型技術統治集團是如何引起不可遏制的消費慾望，而且在此基礎上對階級社會裡的各個階層重新進行了劃分。這部著作對于我們重新審視當代西方社會，加深對其政治、經濟、文化等各個方面的本質的認識，無疑是大有裨益的。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)