In the early 20th century, explorers navigating the desolate Taklamakan Desert in western China stumbled upon a discovery that shattered the conventional timeline of human migration. Buried in the arid sands were hundreds of perfectly preserved mummies—but they did not look Chinese. These bodies, dating back 4,000 years, possessed light hair, angular cheekbones, and were dressed in finely woven tartan wool resembling Celtic fabrics. They were buried in wooden boats, upside down in a sea of...

You're trying to help--but is it working?Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. But even the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on trying to "fix" people, correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well, if at all, to inspire sustained ...

想幫助別人願意真心改變，你真的有「幫忙到」？還是反而「幫倒忙」？助人改變的關鍵，不在於解決問題，而是幫助對方點燃熱情、實踐夢想。　　幫助別人是一件好事，從領導者、主管、老師、教練到醫師，都想要助人改變。領導者培養接班人獨當一面、老師教誨學生建立紀律、主管鞭策部屬當責、醫師囑咐病人按時服藥。　　不過，根據統計，公司推動變革的專案，只有三成會成功；只有一半的病患，會遵照醫師囑咐按時服藥。　　本書作者指出，凡是懂得幫助他人找到內心熱情的教練，並不提供建議給對方，而是提出開放式問題，真誠傾聽。重點是要讓接受指導的人想像理想的自我，探索真實的自我、擬定學習計畫，並實驗和練習新的行為與角色。　　傳統的做法是服從型教練法，聚焦在「解決問題」，要求對方按照自己的方式改變。為了服從權威，對方通常口是心非，勉強配合改變，導致只有三分鐘熱度。　　本書主張，最好能夠採取同理心教練法，發自內心關懷，幫助對方願意真心改變。比如你希望他人做出改變，會歷經以下五個...

En este libro, poderoso y práctico, el experto en inteligencia emocional Richard Boyatzis nos explica que si lo que realmente pretendemos es provocar en los demás un cambio significativo, debemos conectar con la visión positiva que cada persona tiene de sí misma, con el sueño u objetivo inspirador que conserva en su interior.Ayudar a la gente a cambiar describe cómo a través del "coaching compasivo" se consigue que las personas piensen de manera creativa, fomentando así su aprendiz...

A travesty. A violation. An ecstasy. A disappointment. An instant. A lie. A theft. A rite of passage. Whatever you call it, there's only one first time.A.S. King, Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Anne Fine, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, Mary Hooper, and Andrew Smith. Some of today's leading international YA authors contributed to this hard-hitting collection of original short stories: some funny, some moving, some haunting, but all revolving around the same su...

From the soul of the streets comes a voice you can't ignore.GHETTONOMICS: A Poetic Therapy is a powerful collection of spoken-word style poetry that brings raw emotion, unfiltered truth, and spiritual resilience from the heart of urban America.Melvin Smith shares his journey through pain, poverty, fatherhood, injustice, faith, addiction, love, and survival in the ghettos of New York. These poems are a mirror held up to society-bold, unapologetic, and brimming with ...

Pedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7, 2021, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons.Pedro, a proud Cuban American, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had...

The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, and future considerations for the discipline o...

You're trying to help—but is it working?Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. But even the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on trying to "fix" people, correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well, if at all, to inspire sustained l...

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea changed the course of the war in 1864, in terms both of the up...

This book is the first authoritative text on the role that physicists play in solving the inherently multidisciplinary science and technology challenges in food manufacturing. Topics range from designing safe, nutritious and great-tasting foods to the process technology and manufacturing know-how needed to deliver compelling product innovation. The book provides a foundational resource for the transformation of engineering and materials characterisation in the food and pharmaceuticals indu...