This succinct, interdisciplinary introduction to critical thinking successfully dares students to question their own assumptions and to enlarge their thinking through the analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The text offers a unique and effective organization: Part I explains the fundamental concepts; Part II describes the most common barriers to critical thinking; Part III offers strategies for overcoming those barriers.

Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies
There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it generates billions of dollars in annual revenue; or even because it is watched by hundreds of millions of people in nearly 200 countries. When Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix, he developed a set of counterintuitive and radical management principles, defying all tradition and expectation, which would allow the company to reinvent itself over and over on the way to becoming one of the most loved brands in the world.
Rejecting the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate, Reed set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance and hard work is irrelevant. At Netflix, you don't try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees never need approval, and the company always pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these principles, the implications were unknown and untested, but over just a short period of time they have led to unprecedented flexibility, speed, and boldness. The culture of freedom and responsibility has allowed the company to constantly grow and change as the world, and its members' needs, have also transformed.
Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of The Culture Map and one of the world's most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial philosophies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from his own career, No Rules Rules is the full, fascinating, and untold story of a unique company making its mark on the world.

想象力、社交能力、幽默、自发性、惊奇，
弗吉尼亚大学医学博士的心态重塑指南
用5种快乐特质打败生活的挫折与乏味
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 我们缺的不一定是玩耍和娱乐的时间，而是轻松生活所不可或缺的顽皮特质
对很多成年人来说，严肃和充满压力的生活并非源于没有时间玩耍和娱乐，而在 于他们内心的顽皮特质被侵蚀掉了。玩耍和娱乐只是一种行为，而顽皮是对待行为的一种态度。玩耍的行为很容易达成，但启动我们性格中的顽皮特质却需要有意识的思考和努力。
☆ 弗吉尼亚大学医学博士的心态重塑指南，用5种顽皮特质打败生活的挫折与乏味
本书作者拥有杜克大学普拉特工程学院生物医学工程学士学位，密歇根大学拉克姆研究生院健康和卫生保健研究硕士学位，以及弗吉尼亚大学医学院医学博士学位。在书中，作者介绍了想象力、社交能力、幽默、自发性、惊奇5种顽皮特质，帮助我们对抗压力、严肃和超负荷这些成年人的主要困扰。
☆ 本书内容精彩而实用，提醒读者去笑、去做白日梦、去活在当下、去爱
本书融合了心理学、社会学、神经科学等一系列学科的知识，充满了令人信服的研究、激励人心的故事和切实可行的步骤，既可以拓展读者的见识，又能让读者从真实的故事中感受“顽皮”的积极力量，从身心健康、人际关系到面对困境等诸多方面受益，并轻松学会如何以一种孩童般的视角看待生活，快乐生活。
◎ 内容简介
成年之后的压力和忙碌让很多人被疲惫感和麻木感包围，生活渐渐失去色彩，甚至怀疑自己是否陷入抑郁。记忆中愉快而顽皮的年少时代就这样一去不复返了吗？在严肃的成年世界里，如何拥有轻松生活的力量？
作为拥有多年临床经验的执业医师，高强度的工作压力和责任令作者不堪重负，即使生活方式依然健康，也无法扭转严肃、紧张的精神状态。他警觉必须找回失去的轻松心态，学习如何轻松地生活。
回想童年，正是性格中的顽皮特质，让我们把世界看作游乐园。作者由此出发，通过观察、采访并研究数千人，结合心理学、社会学、神经科学等一系列学科，确定了5种最重要的顽皮特质：想象力、社交能力、幽默、自发性和惊奇。
本书致力于探索以上5种顽皮特质的效果和益处，为我们分享了十几个真实动人的案例，逐一证明了每种顽皮特质拥有的力量，它将促使我们更为积极地处理人际关系，应对事业和生命困境，摆脱严肃的束缚，迎接更轻松愉悦的生活。

一位因为快速学习而成名的神奇小子，他应用自己发明的学习方法，完成了10天搞定线性代数，1年学习4年MIT课程的“不可能任务”。本书就是对他学习方法的全面介绍，其中包括整体性学习策略的核心思想和具体技术，详细介绍了快速阅读法、流笔记法、比喻法、内在化等七大方法，并为高效学习提供了从生活到时间管理的整体解决方案。跟随作者，你也将成为高效学习的超级学霸。