Nathaniel Branden's book is the culmination of a lifetime of clinical practice and study, already hailed in its hardcover edition as a classic and the most significant work on the topic.Immense in scope and vision and filled with insight into human motivation and behavior, The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem is essential reading for anyone with a personal or professional interest in self-esteem. The book demonstrates compellingly why self-esteem is basic to psychological health, achievement, personal happiness, and positive relationships.Branden introduces the six pillars-six action-based practices for daily living that provide the foundation for self-esteem-and explores the central importance of self-esteem in five areas: the workplace, parenting, education, psychotherapy, and the culture at large.The work provides concrete guidelines for teachers, parents, managers, and therapists who are responsible for developing the self-esteem of others.And it shows why-in today's chaotic and competitive world-self-esteem is fundamental to our personal and professional power.

Today's Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods of data analysis. Machine learning provides these, developing methods that can automatically detect patterns in data and then use the uncovered patterns to predict future data. This textbook offers a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the field of machine learning, a unified, probabilistic approach. The coverage combines breadth and depth, offering necessary background material on such topics as probability, optimization, and linear algebra as well as discussion of recent developments in the field, including conditional random fields, L1 regularization, and deep learning. The book is written in an informal, accessible style, complete with pseudo-code for the most important algorithms. All topics are copiously illustrated with color images and worked examples drawn from such application domains as biology, text processing, computer vision, and robotics. Rather than providing a cookbook of different heuristic methods, the book stresses a principled model-based approach, often using the language of graphical models to specify models in a concise and intuitive way. Almost all the models described have been implemented in a MATLAB software package--PMTK (probabilistic modeling toolkit)--that is freely available online. The book is suitable for upper-level undergraduates with an introductory-level college math background and beginning graduate students.

Change in View offers an entirely original approach to the philosophical study of reasoning by identifying principles of reasoning with principles for revising one's beliefs and intentions and not with principles of logic. This crucial observation leads to a number of important and interesting consequences that impinge on psychology and artificial intelligence as well as on various branches of philosophy, from epistemology to ethics and action theory.

This classic book on formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity has been updated to present theoretical concepts in a concise and straightforward manner with the increase of hands-on, practical applications. This new edition comes with Gradiance, an online assessment tool developed for computer science. Gradiance is the most advanced online assessment tool developed for the computer science discipline. With its innovative underlying technology, Gradiance turns basic homework assignments and programming labs into an interactive learning experience for students. By using a series of "root questions" and hints, it not only tests a student's capability, but actually simulates a one-on-one teacher-student tutorial that allows for the student to more easily learn the material. Through the programming labs, instructors are capable of testing, tracking, and honing their students' skills, both in terms of syntax and semantics, with an unprecedented level of assessment never before offered. For more information about Gradiance, please visit www.aw.com/gradiance.

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☆ 享誉世界的美国推理小说大师、当代“硬汉派”侦探小说最杰出的代表、“爱伦·坡奖”终身成就奖得主、“纽约犯罪风景的吟游诗人”——劳伦斯·布洛克数十年创作经验全公开！
☆ 本书由劳伦斯·布洛克在《作家文摘》开设了十四年的专栏汇集整理而成，出版四十余年畅销不衰！经布洛克亲自修订更新，新旧观点碰撞出惊人的火花！
☆ 劳伦斯·布洛克的作品不仅受到推理迷的欢迎，更备受社会精英、知识分子推崇，在中国拥有众多名人明星书迷：侯孝贤、梁朝伟、王家卫、张大春、朱天文、朱天心为之迷狂……
☆ 无论时代如何变化，故事的内容和讲述的方式永远是虚构写作的核心。讲什么故事？用什么方式来讲？新人如何出道？老手怎样创新？这正是布洛克想要与你真诚探讨的话题。
☆ 广纳百余份作家问卷调查结果．探究世界知名作家的写作方式——小说写作没有公式可循，但从前人总结的经验与教训中，你可以找到适合自己的创作之路！
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请记住，情节设计是一个增效的过程，整体的价值远大于部分的和。
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对小说中的人物提不起兴趣，无法产生共情，是读者放弃一部小说的重要原因。
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小说的开头不一定是故事开头，从故事中间开始的手法可以迅速调动起读者的兴趣。
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创作对话时，你需要加快节奏，省略你来我往，做一些总结与概括。
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想写小说的时候，你最好吃上两片阿司匹林，躺在黑暗的房间里，静静地等待这种冲动过去。如果那份热情没有就此熄灭，那你就该老老实实地下一番功夫了――至少，你得听听劳伦斯·布洛克的建议和忠告，因为他在写作上栽的跟头可能比你读过的书还多。
该写什么小说好？怎么拟定大纲？卡壳的时候该怎么办？如何提高作品被出版的概率？从开始写下第一个字，到完成创作后继续面对下一部作品，这个过程绝无标准公式。小说的创作方法千变万化，最重要的是找到适合你的那一种。《小说的八百万种写法》由劳伦斯·布洛克在《作家文摘》开设十四年的写作专栏结集整理而成，涉及小说创作过程中的方方面面，本书出版四十余年畅销不衰，此版由布洛克亲自更新修订，新、旧观点的碰撞让这本创作秘籍更加富有生机。

一名审计人员抛弃了会计师事务所的工作，创办了一家玩具公司；
一名职业技术经理人走出了知名企业，成为独立咨询顾问；
一位将要拿到终身职位的文学教授，成为股票经纪人；
一名律师放弃了原有的一切，成为一名船长……
如果你很想知道他们如何完成这么大的转变，那么本书非常适合你。
传统观点告诉我们，要想转型成功，首先要清楚自己最想做什么，然后据此来实施一个可行的方案。
然而，职业发展专家伊瓦拉博士告诉我们：转行并非换个工作那么简单，而是意味着自我的重塑。我们应该从实践中认识自我，而不是通过理论；通过在现实中尝试，而不是通过内省。随着尝试新的行动，接触新的组织，寻找新的角色榜样，向周围的人们重新讲述我们的故事，我们的职业追求会变得越来越清晰，逐渐形成一个新的自画像。
伊瓦拉博士对来自各行各业的39位成功转行者进行了深度访谈，提炼出一系列职业转型的普适策略。这些策略与你已知的传统观点完全不同，是全新的、颠覆性的。伊瓦拉博士的"职业转型三部曲"将带领你探索各种可能的职业身份，发现一个未知却更美好的自我。

Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives.
On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes," he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories.
Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of competitive memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as much as determination-showing that memorization can be anything but rote. From the PAO system, which converts numbers into lurid images, to the memory palace, in which memories are stored in the rooms of imaginary structures, Foer's experience shows that the World Memory Championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and creativity.
Foer takes his inquiry well beyond the arena of mental athletes-across the country and deep into his own mind. In San Diego, he meets an affable old man with one of the most severe case of amnesia on record, where he learns that memory is at once more elusive and more reliable than we might think. In Salt Lake City, he swaps secrets with a savant who claims to have memorized more than nine thousand books. At a high school in the South Bronx, he finds a history teacher using twenty- five-hundred-year-old memory techniques to give his students an edge in the state Regents exam.
At a time when electronic devices have all but rendered our individual memories obsolete, Foer's bid to resurrect the forgotten art of remembering becomes an urgent quest. Moonwalking with Einstein brings Joshua Foer to the apex of the U.S. Memory Championship and readers to a profound appreciation of a gift we all possess but that too often slips our minds.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

在人工智能异常火热的今天，很多人认为我们生活在一个不可思议的历史时期，人工智能和大数据可能比工业革命更能改变人的一生。然而这种说法未免言过其实，我们的生活确实可能有所改变，但并非一定是朝好的方面发展。我们过于武断地认为计算机搜索和处理堆积如山的数据时不会出差错，但计算机只是擅长收集、储存和搜索数据，它们没有常识或智慧，不知道数字和词语的意思，无法评估数据库中内容的相关性和有效性，它们没有区分真数据、假数据和坏数据所需的人类判断力，没有分辨有理有据和虚假伪造的统计学模型所需的人类智能。
计算机挖掘大数据风行一时，但数据挖掘是人为而非智能，也是非常艰巨、危险的人工智能形式。数据挖掘先是通过大量的数据走势、相关关系来发现让我们内心愉悦却无实践价值的模型，然后创造理论来解释这些模型。作者通过“史密斯测试”和“得州神枪手谬误”等实例说明，如果你挖掘和拷问数据的时间够长、数量够大，你总能得到自己想要的结果，然而这是相关关系却并不是因果关系，只是自我选择偏好，并没有理论基础也没有实用价值。
在人工智能时代，我们对计算机的热爱不应该掩盖我们对其局限性的思考，真正的危险不是计算机比我们更聪明，而是我们认为计算机具有人类的智慧和常识，数据挖掘就是“知识发现”，从而信任计算机为我们做出重要决定。更多的计算能力和更多的数据并不意味着更多的智能，我们需要对人类的智慧有更多的信心。

经济学和法律有着什么关系？
假设立法者提议持枪抢劫犯必须判死刑，各方必然会有不同的反应。媒体和舆论会强烈支持对犯罪采取强硬手段；律师会提出异议，认为这种惩罚太残酷；法学家会思考这项议案的公平正义的问题。而经济学家则会发现，持枪抢劫的判罚跟谋杀的判罚一样，会鼓励抢劫犯杀掉被害人。经济学这种直达问题本质的能力，使得它不仅适用于解释法律，还有助于法律的制定。
作者简洁明快地厘清了法律与经济学的关系，而平易的行文风格适合专业人士乃至外行读者，同时无损其观点的深度。利用大量实际案例，加上渊博的芝加哥学派经济学知识，作者坚定地为法律的经济分析“辩护”，并没有颠覆传统法律学者的结论（对同一法律问题，比如是否废除死刑，它能被不同的立场所用），而是改变了双方辩论的本质。又比如在讨论房屋租赁法时，一般认为它要么偏袒房东或要么偏袒租客，但经济分析明确表示：长期来看，一个糟糕的法律会对双方都造成损害。
此外，跟传统法律理论不同，经济分析用相同的概念（如经济效率）和方法去理解和评估不同类别的法律，比如合同法、财产法、刑法、侵权法等——不管是当下的美国法律，还是其他历史时期或其他地方的法律。

Battle at Sea looks at every aspect of the story of warfare on, above, and under the sea, including classic naval engagements daring raids carried out on ships in harbor, and landing operations such as D-Day, where control of the sea was essential to transport land forces to new battlefronts. Special features within the book include: graphic and dramatic battle catalogs relating the stories of the men, ships, and organizations behind history's greatest naval conflicts; spectacular 3D digital artworks following the crucial stages of key battles, step by step; profiles of naval crew - the captain, officers, gunners, quartermaster, surgeon, cooks, and boatswains - exploring their changing roles throughout history; eyewitness accounts recreating the experience of the opposing forces in key battles, whether preparing for conflict, in the heat of battle, or dealing with the aftermath of an engagement; photographic tours revealing the intricate details of surviving or reconstructed warships-from an Ancient Greek trireme to a nuclear-powered submarine; features on weapons and technology highlighting developments in naval warfare, from boarding equipment to sonar, cannons to missiles, and propulsion through steam to nuclear power.

Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and levels of expertise a comprehensive introduction to the debates over national S&T competitiveness. It synthesizes over fifty years of theory and research on national innovation rates, bringing together the current political and economic wisdom, and latest findings, about how nations become S&T leaders. Many experts mistakenly believe that domestic institutions and policies determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no agreement on precisely how this happens, exactly which institutions matter, and little aggregate evidence has been produced to support any particular explanation. Yet, despite these problems, a core faith in a relationship between domestic institutions and national innovation rates remains widely held and little challenged. The Politics of Innovation confronts head-on this contradiction between theory, evidence, and the popularity of the institutions-innovation hypothesis. It presents extensive evidence to show that domestic institutions and policies do not determine innovation rates. Instead, it argues that social networks are as important as institutions in determining national innovation rates. The Politics of Innovation also introduces a new theory of "creative insecurity" which explains how institutions, policies, and networks are all subservient to politics. It argues that, ultimately, each country's balance of domestic rivalries vs. external threats, and the ensuing political fights, are what drive S&T competitiveness. In making its case, The Politics of Innovation draws upon statistical analysis and comparative case studies of the United States, Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Turkey, Israel, Russia and a dozen countries across Western Europe.

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

《大流感:历史上最致命瘟疫的史诗》主要内容：大流感指的是1918—1919年横扫世界的那次流感大流行，过去估计全球死亡人数约2000万，最新的权威估计数字为5000万－1亿。这个数字不仅高于历年来命丧艾滋病的人数总和，更远超中世纪二黑死病所造成的死亡人数。《大流感—历史上最致命瘟疫的史诗》作者依据大量的历史资料和数据，重绘1918年的惨状，为我们再现了这场最致命瘟疫发生、发展及其肆虐全球的过程，
在《大流感—历史上最致命瘟疫的史诗》中，作者多线索展开论述，纵横交错地记述了有史以来最具毁灭性的流感故事，以及20世纪科学与医学发展的历史。《大流感—历史上最致命瘟疫的史诗》细致入微地描写了科学、政治与疾病传播互动的过程，并述及传统医学演化至现代医学的重要里程碑，以及当年科学家、医学工作者等在巨大压力下所显示出的勇气或怯懦，信仰、价值观、研究态度和方法……
这部著作不只是简单讲述1918年发生的事件，它同时也是一部权威性的有关科学、政治和文化的传奇。

Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award! Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours- sometimes even minutes-no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base. Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk delivery process. Next, they introduce the "deployment pipeline," an automated process for managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the "ecosystem" needed to support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance. The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management and data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes * Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software * Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels * Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations * Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams * Implementing an effective configuration management strategy * Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation * Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements * Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases * Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies * Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditing Whether you're a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your organization move from idea to release faster than ever-so you can deliver value to your business rapidly and reliably.