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'The best productivity plans call for strategy, not just hacks or tactics―and Hyperfocus gives you strategy in spades. When you read this book, get ready to do your most important work!' Chris Guilleb

"Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves."---Arianna Huffington, New York Times Book ReviewOverwork is the new norma

From the New York Times bestselling author of Great by Choice comes an authoritative, practical guide to individual performance—based on analysis from an exhaustive, groundbreaking study.Why do

The works of Christian Hartard (b. Munich, 1977; lives and works in Munich) are sounding boards on which the marginal resonates. They bring ephemeral everyday phenomena into focus, making us conscious

Learn to brew the best possible beer with less work and the most fun! Simple Homebrewing reduces the complicated steps for making beer and returns brewing to the fundamentals. Denny Conn and Drew Beec

The World Health Organization estimates that American businesses lose more than $300 billion a year due to stress experienced by employees, and recent research by Harvard Medical School found that mor

In TOXIC WAIST, Dr. Bruce Blumberg reveals his landmark research as well as that by others in the field to show how hidden factors, such as environmental chemicals, might be important players in our 2

Critical thinking can appear formal and academic, far removed from everyday life where decisions have to be taken quickly in less than ideal conditions. It is, however, a vital part of social work, an

One of the great conceptual artists of the twenty-first century, Terry Adkins (1953–2014) was renowned for his pioneering work across mediums, from sculpture, drawing, and site-specific installa

In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866), mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integration, the Fourier transform, the hypergeometric differ

Billions have been spent on land conservation but too little attention had been paid to how cost-effective these investments have been. With budgets increasingly constrained, conservationists must learn to fully harness their funds to protect critical resources. Messer and Allen are pioneers in making conservation selection more successful, cost-effective, scientific, and transparent. This book introduces powerful mathematical tools available for project selection, using real-life examples and a practical step-by-step approach. Readers can readily apply these methods to their own work, accomplishing more with less by combining the individual benefits of structured decision-making, mathematical programming, and an understanding of market forces and human behavior. The authors highlight tools from conservation science, mathematics, land use planning and behavioral economics, showing how they can be combined to help protect key environmental resources. This is an invaluable volume for all

Billions have been spent on land conservation but too little attention had been paid to how cost-effective these investments have been. With budgets increasingly constrained, conservationists must learn to fully harness their funds to protect critical resources. Messer and Allen are pioneers in making conservation selection more successful, cost-effective, scientific, and transparent. This book introduces powerful mathematical tools available for project selection, using real-life examples and a practical step-by-step approach. Readers can readily apply these methods to their own work, accomplishing more with less by combining the individual benefits of structured decision-making, mathematical programming, and an understanding of market forces and human behavior. The authors highlight tools from conservation science, mathematics, land use planning and behavioral economics, showing how they can be combined to help protect key environmental resources. This is an invaluable volume for all

Simplify Your Landlord Experience with Smart Strategies and Smarter Tools “Without Landlording on Autopilot, I doubt I would have ever succeeded with rental properties. Mike's book guided my bus

Simple mindfulness practices for teens that build self-esteem, grow compassion, and reduce stress.The demands and pressures of everyday life can really stress you out! School, work, relationships, soc

Public discourses around migrant sex workers are often more confident about what migrant sex workers signify morally but are less clear about who the ‘migrant’ is. Based on interviews with immigrant,

This volume from the editor of the SEL SolutionsSeries provides a concise introduction to mindfulnessfor teachers and others who work in preschooland elementary-school settings. Each chapter includess

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be less widely known is that Fromm was a social psychoanalyst whose ps

A spirited defense of feminism, arguing that the lack of support for working mothers is less a failure of second-wave feminism than a rejection by reactionaries of the sweeping changes they campaigned

Gendered Vulnerability examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. For instance, female candidates get less and lower quality coverage fr

More value from less work. An unstoppable business revolution is under way-and it is Agile. Companies that embrace Agile Management learn to connect everyone and everything . . . all the time. They ca

YOU WANT LESS. You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work

累死你的不是工作，而是工作方法！在這壓抑的時代，坐擁「時間」和「自由」才是真本事。你的職業壽命，不該指望任何公司或單一收入。掌握多重身分，才是通往工作自主的最大機會！\\《星期日泰晤士報》暢銷書// 誰說只有坐辦公室才能證明你的能力與才華？為什麼我們投入工作、拚命存錢，卻要等到退休才能安心享樂？當現在的工作沒辦法給你足夠的安全感，學著改變，無需委屈求全。 選擇職場前，你是否有問過自己想要什麼樣

Galison's Mini Shaped Puzzles are designed to be completed in an hour or less as a meditative break from screen time and the busy-ness of your day. Recharge with the Andy Warhol Mini Shaped Puzzle Campbell's Soup and create a 100-piece masterpiece by putting together Warhol's famous Soup Can piece by piece. The completed mini puzzle is shaped like the original work!

Are we spending more time at work than we would have done fifty years ago? Are we sleeping less?How has the internet affected the way we use our spare time? Everything we do happens in time, and a det

Debates frequently focus on the role of training as an indicator of quality, but far less attention is given to understanding how to work effectively with young children, and how the knowledge to do t

Debates frequently focus on the role of training as an indicator of quality, but far less attention is given to understanding how to work effectively with young children, and how the knowledge to do t

Own it, snowflakes: you’ve lost everything you claim to hold dear.White is Bret Easton Ellis’s first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psy

Swiss photographer Tom Haller has gained wide recognition for his work in portraiture and reportage. Less well known, but equally arresting, are the landscapes Haller has produced during his travels t

The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology. Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newport’s Deep Work sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentr

The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology.Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newport's Deep Work sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentra

Live in luxury—on a budget. Homeowners and renters of all means dream of having a beautiful home. The media makes it look so easy, but many of us have less to work with and still long to live in style

The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individua

More eggs, less work! And more enjoyment for both the chickens and their keeper! That’s the promise of Frank Hyman’s Hentopia. From the Vending Machine Feeder to the Refilling Rainwat

The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are often less stable than one would wish them to be. No work of Homer, Dante or Shakespeare survives in utterly reliable witnesses, be

Learning a foreign language is much easier when it is approached with a knowledge of language structure ('grammar'), but many students find grammar mystifying. This text explains points of grammar straightforwardly using examples from several widely-studied languages, including English, so that students can see how the same principles work across different languages, and how the structures of different languages correspond both formally and functionally. The use of concrete examples makes grammar less abstract and easier to grasp, allowing students to relate what they are learning to knowledge that they already possess unconsciously; it simultaneously brings that knowledge up to a conscious level.