Monday, August 29, 2016

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Thousands of books have been written offering the 'secrets' to personal fulfillment and happiness: how to walk The Road Less Traveled, Win Friends and Influence People, or Awaken the Giant Within. But which are the all-time classics? Which ones really can change your life? Bringing you the essential ideas, insights and techniques from 50 legendary works from Lao-Tzu to Benjamin Franklin to Paulo Coelho, 50 Self-Help Classics is a unique guide to the great works of life transformation.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)



The Self-Help Classics include:

How to Win Friends and Influence People (人性的弱點) ~Dale Carnegie Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Alchemist (牧羊少年奇幻之旅; or 煉金術士) ~Paulo Coelho  check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Walden (湖濱散記; or 瓦爾登湖) ~Henry David Thoreau Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Man’s Search for Meaning (追尋生命的意義; or 人生的眞諦) ~Viktor Frankl Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ (情感智商) ~Daniel Goleman Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Road Less Traveled (少有人走的路; or 心靈地圖 : 追求愛和成長之路) ~M. Scott Peck Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Atlas Shrugged (阿特拉斯聳聳肩) ~Ayn Rand Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (高效能人士的七個習慣; or 與成功有約) ~Stephen Covey Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
You Can Heal Your Life (生命的重建 ) ~Louise Hay Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Bible (聖經) Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (潛意識的力量) ~Joseph Murphy Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Motivation and Personality (自我實現的人; or 動機與人格) ~Abraham Maslow Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin(富蘭克林自傳) ~Benjamin Franklin Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Power of Positive Thinking (積極思考就是力量) ~Norman Vincent Peale Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Meditations (沉思錄) ~Marcus Aurelius Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Men Are from Mars,Women Are from Venus (男女大不同 : 火星男人與金星女人的戀愛講義 ) ~John Gray Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
As a Man Thinketh (人生的思考; or 做你想做的人) ~James Allen Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Awaken the Giant Within (喚起心中的巨人) ~Anthony Robbins Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (福至心靈 : 成功致勝的七大精神法則 ) ~Deepak Chopra Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… And It’s All Small Stuff (別為小事抓狂) ~Richard Carlson Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Learned Optimism (學習樂觀, 樂觀學習) ~Martin Seligman Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (快樂, 從心開始) ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters (活得聰明活得好) ~Philip C. McGraw Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Creative Visualization (創造性思維的全新路徑) ~Shakti Gawain Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less (80/20 法則 : 成功, 快樂和進步的秘訣 ) ~Richard Koch Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Game of Life and How to Play It (失落的幸福經典; or 人生的遊戲規則) ~Florence Scovel Shinn Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Psycho-Cybernetics (人性的控制) ~Maxwell Maltz Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Women Who Run with the Wolves (與狼同奔的女人) ~Clarissa Pinkola Estés Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
A Return to Love : Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles (發現眞愛) ~Marianne Williamson Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Finding Your Own North Star: How to Claim the Life You Were Meant to Live  (尋找你的北極星) ~Martha Beck Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Self-Reliance (依靠自我) ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Tao Te Ching (道德經) ~Lao Tzu Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (快樂 : 達賴喇嘛的人生智慧) ~The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Power of Myth (神話 : 內在的旅程, 英雄的冒險, 愛情的故事) ~Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Consolation of Philosophy (哲學的慰藉) ~Boethius Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes (轉變, 需要一場儀式) ~William Bridges Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Iron John (上帝之肋) ~Robert Bly Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life (少有人走的路,3. 心靈地圖) ~Thomas Moore Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
How Proust Can Change Your Life (擁抱似水年華) ~Alain de Botton Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
NLP: The New Technology of Achievement (NLP無限成就計劃) ~Steve Andreas & Charles Faulkner Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Mindfulness: Choice and Control in Everyday Life (用心法則 : 改變你一生的關鍵) ~Ellen J. Langer Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Phenomenon of Man (人的現象) ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life (每日皆奇跡:走出你的誤區創造人生奇跡) ~Wayne Dyer Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling (破譯心靈) ~James Hillman Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By (內在英雄) ~Carol S. Pearson Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Self-Help (行動決定命運) ~Samuel Smiles Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (向生命下戰帖) ~Susan Jeffers Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Bhagavad-Gita (薄伽梵歌) Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue
The Dhammapada (Buddha’s teachings) (法句經) Check holdings in CityU Library Catalogue

大腦超載時代的思考學 (The Organized Mind)

丹尼爾・列維廷(Daniel J. Levitin)
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在資訊氾濫、一心多用的時代,
如何有效組織你生活、工作的各個面向?
認知心理學大師提供你完美解藥。

......超載資訊加重我們大腦的負荷,讓我們找不到東西、忘記重要會議,並且不斷分心在收發電子郵件、回簡訊和臉書等事情上,讓人筋疲力竭。過量的資訊和感覺輸入,造成我們龐大的精神耗損和負擔,不斷搶奪我的注意力,讓我們產生認知功能障礙,做出錯誤的決策。
  
該如何不讓自己每天不只是被所見所聞牽著走,把重要時間集中在創意構思、正確決策上?
該如何在這樣的資訊過載年代,在龐大訊息中做出正確直截的決定?

本書作者丹尼爾.列維廷,加拿大蒙特婁麥基爾大學心理學教授,同時也是行為神經科學、資訊科學學院和教育學院的特聘教授、暢銷作家,針對工作生活的各個領域,提出完美解藥。

  • 如何不再弄丟東西?如何重新組織你的辦公和家居生活?
  • 今日人們如何保持聯絡?如何組織你愈來愈龐大的社群?
  • 如何解決關於時間的迷思?而保留你的創意時間?
  • 當你的人生面臨存亡之際,如何最艱難的組織資訊,做出決定?
  • 如果你是商業人士,該如何創造價值?組織你的商業世界?
  
本書不是一般的整理術,它是從神經科學和認知心理學的最新研究出發,結合注意力、記憶分類等神經理論,提出解藥。

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Monday, August 22, 2016

The Secrets of College Success

Lynn F. Jacobs and Jeremy S. Hyman 
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Written by award-winning professors Lynn Jacobs and Jeremy Hyman, it’s loaded with insider information that only professors know--but few are willing to reveal.

The over 800 tips in this book will show you how to:
• Pick courses and choose a major
• Manage your time and develop college-level study skills
• Get on top of the core requirements
• Get good grades and avoid stress
• Interact effectively with the professor
• Match college and career, and more.

New to the second edition are tips for:
• Online courses and MOOCs
• Community Colleges, Engineering Schools, and Arts and Design Colleges
• E-readers, tablets, and laptops
• Taking out Student Loans and Paying them Off, and more.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Top 10 Secrets of College Success (U.S. News & World Reports)


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大學學習生涯指導:教你成為卓越大學生 

哈佛校訓給大學生的24個啟示

郭亞維 著
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「與柏拉圖為友,與亞里斯多德為友,更要與真理為友。」這就是哈佛校訓!......

書中從八個方面分別闡述了由哈佛校訓生發出的哈佛理念、哈佛精神:追求真理、崇尚自由、獨立思考、創新精神、擁有夢想、菁英意識和社會責任感。其中每個主題又分別從不同的方面加以闡釋,為讀者引發出24種啟示。本書在編寫上注重以發生在哈佛人身上的真實、通俗的事例,闡述其對青少年人生成長的教義。

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