The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs

Marcia Reynolds 
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You want people to stretch their limits, but your conversations meant to help them often fall flat or backfire, creating more resistance than growth. Top leadership coach Marcia Reynolds offers a model for using the Discomfort Zone—the moment when the mind is most open to learning—to prompt people to think through problems, see situations more strategically, and transcend their limitations.

Drawing on recent discoveries in the neuroscience of learning, Reynolds shows how to ask the kinds of questions that short-circuit the brain’s defense mechanisms and habitual thought patterns. Then, instead of being told, people see for themselves the insightful and often profound solutions to what is stopping their progress. The exercises and case studies will help you use discomfort in your conversations to create lasting changes and an enlivened workforce.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人性能達到的境界 (The Farther Reaches of Human Nature)

馬斯洛 (Abraham H. Maslow) 著
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馬斯洛在探討人性能夠達到多高境界的新問題時，他深深意識到傳統科學否認人的價值的極其危險性和全部科學非道德技術化的嚴重後果。他發現傳統科學具有太多的懷疑論、太冷酷、非人性。他認為傳統科學一直宣稱它只關注事實的認識，而不是“一種意識形態，或一種倫理或一種價值體系，它不能幫助人們在善惡之間作出選擇”。當涉及到人性對事實的認識時，科學常常表現出一種對潛能、對理想可能性的盲目性。馬斯洛要求科學不能排斥價值，要從人性事實的研究中給人們提供生命的意義和理想。

本書共分四章:
第一章 探索生命的需要
第二章 創造人性的境界
第三章 實現自我的價值
第四章 體驗人生的幸福

(摘錄自dangdang.com)

Young People and Housing: Transitions, Trajectories and Generational Fractures

Edited by Ray Forrest and Ngai Ming Yip 
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Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in search of permanent housing. Featuring international case studies from Asia, Europe, and Australia, Young People and Housing is a collection of groundbreaking work from leading scholars in housing policy.

Younger generations across a wide range of societies face increasing difficulties in gaining access to housing. Housing occupies a pivotal position in the transition from parental dependence to adult independence. Delayed independence has significant implications for marriage and family formation, fertility, inter and intra generational tensions, social mobility and social inequalities.

The social and cultural dimensions are, of course, enormously varied with strong contrasts between Asian and Western societies in terms of intergenerational norms and practices in relation to housing. Nevertheless, younger households in China (including Hong Kong), Japan, the USA, Australasia and Europe face very similar challenges in the housing sphere. Moreover, concerns about the housing future for younger generations are gaining greater policy and popular prominence in many countries.

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成功可以走直線 (Strategic Acceleration)

托尼．杰瑞 (Tony Jeary) 著
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本書內容包括：想成功走直線第1步：清晰目標；清晰的目標對於成功至關重要；如何使目標更清晰；提高專注力，讓成功走直線等。

無論你是一名銷售人員，還是一家大公司的CEO，本書都將幫助你感受到杰瑞的魔力。
——馬克·漢森，《心靈雞湯》作者，《紐約時報》暢銷書作家

本書將為你提供一套切實有用的工具，幫助你改變自己的思想和行為，進而幫助你以更快的速度得到你想要的結果。
——博恩·崔西，《時間力》作者，《紐約時報》暢銷書作家

加速成功法將幫助你看清自己的人生目標，保持專注，盡快實現自己的目標。
——史蒂芬·柯維，《高效能人士的七個習慣》作者，《紐約時報》暢銷書作家 　

(摘錄自http://www.baike.com/)

The Digital Mystique: How the Culture of Connectivity Can Empower Your Life—Online and Off

Sarah Granger 
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In The Digital Mystique, Sarah Granger—a nationally recognized expert on online culture and social technology—shows us how digital media is shaping our lives in real time. Whether it's how we raise our children, communicate in love and partnerships, support causes, or establish friendships and trust, Granger pinpoints the best ways to seize digital opportunities to make our lives richer and fuller.

While the Internet era is one that is frequently criticized as undermining our health, privacy, concentration, and ability to sustain real-world relationships, Granger takes a more optimistic and empowering view. She shares real-life stories and surprising facts about our lives—both online and off—to shed new and fascinating light on the positive effects of the digital media revolution, showing us how we can personally learn, grow, and thrive by engaging in our digitized world.

The Digital Mystique includes the following chapters:

Connecting Is Just the Beginning
.YOU
Friending Is Trending
Love in the Time of Messaging
The Kids Are Online
The Senior Moment
The Passion of the Web
There’s No Business Like E-Business
Community Is the Key
The Difference a Tweet Makes
What We Leave Behind
A Stitch in Digital Time

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壓力圓舞曲：大學生的壓力管理

王淑俐 著
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面對課業的壓力、生涯發展的抉擇、社會的競爭以及情感、家庭、人際關係、經濟的種種現實，你是否感到被排山倒海的煩擾情緒所吞噬？人生歷程中，壓力無可避免，若能以積極、正向的心態與之相處，壓力卻能成為我們前進的助力與動力。

「壓力管理」是透過自我負責及自我掌控，將自己的睡眠、生活作息、休閒運動、思考方式、人生目標、生活方式等管理妥善。本書作者透過各種新聞事件、生活中的案例，和大學生們分享如何做好壓力管理，包括：睡眠、冥想與放鬆、生涯規劃與時間管理、正向思考、自我效能、身心交互作用、心理治療等。藉由本書讓我們學習與壓力為友，認識壓力，培養更清明、積極、正向、樂觀的人生態度。通過它，將使我們身心得到安頓，未來的人生更有自信和意義。

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