Introduction -- Desire and deferral: Japanese naturalism in the countryside -- A utopia of self-help: imagining rural Japan in the novels of ambition -- Topographies of value: city, gift, and money in Natsume Soseki -- Winds of scandal: female self-fashioning in the metropolis -…
More than half of India's population, some 600 million people, is under the age of twenty-five. It's a generation driven by one defining truth: that unless they seize the initiative and shape their own future, they will wait a long time for something good to happen in their live…
"More than half of India's population, some 600 million people, is under the age of twenty-five. It's a generation driven by one defining truth: that unless they seize the initiative and shape their own future, they will wait a long time for something good to happen in their liv…
"More than half of India's population, some 600 million people, is under the age of twenty-five. It's a generation driven by one defining truth: that unless they seize the initiative and shape their own future, they will wait a long time for something good to happen in their liv…
"THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions: 1.Why do some individuals and teams succeedmore quicklythan others andsustainthat success over the long term? 2.Of those who pull it off, why are …
"THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions: 1. Why do some individuals and teams succeedmore quicklythan others andsustainthat success over the long term? 2. Of those who pull it off, why ar…
"How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate muc…
'Blessed' offers a comprehensive history of the rise of the American prosperity gospel. What began as diverse metaphysical, pentecostal, and self-help conceptions about the power of the mind became one of the most influential popular religious movements of the last century. The …
"IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too ofte…
"IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too ofte…
"IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too ofte…
Wall Street veteran Edward Conard argues that our current obsession with income inequality is misguided and will only slow growth further. Conard tracks the implications of an economy now constrained by both its capacity for risk-taking and by a shortage of properly trained tale…
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master com…