ARE YOUR WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WORKING "AGAINST" YOU?
To achieve your goals and get ahead, you need to rally people behind you and your ideas. But how do you do that when you lack formal authority? Or when you have a boss who gets in your way? Or when you're juggling others' needs at the expense of your own?
By managing up, down, and across the organization. Your success depends on it, whether you're a young professional or an experienced leader.
The "HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across" will help you:
- Advance your agenda--and your career--with smarter networking
- Build relationships that bring targets and deadlines within reach
- Persuade decision makers to champion your initiatives
- Collaborate more effectively with colleagues
- Deal with new, challenging, or incompetent bosses
- Navigate office politics

A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today. “A fresh take on art history as we know it.” (Katy Hessel, The Great Women Artists Podcast)
Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently and understand our place in it, how it helps us express ourselves, fuels our creativity and contributes to our overall wellbeing and positive mental health.
Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all?
Mullins introduces readers to the Terracotta Army and Nok sculptures, Renaissance artists such as Giotto and Michelangelo, trailblazers including Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and contemporary artists who create art as resistance, such as Ai Weiwei and Shirin Neshat. She also restores forgotten artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Guan Daosheng and Jacob Lawrence, and travels to the Niger valley, Peru, Java, Rapa Nui and Australia, to broaden our understanding of what art is and should be.
This extraordinary journey through 100,000 years celebrates art’s crucial place in understanding our collective culture and history. 

“One of the most significant books in my life.” —Obie Fernandez, Author, The Rails Way
“Twenty years ago, the first edition of The Pragmatic Programmer completely changed the trajectory of my career. This new edition could do the same for yours.” —Mike Cohn, Author of Succeeding with Agile, Agile Estimating and Planning, and User Stories Applied
“. . . filled with practical advice, both technical and professional, that will serve you and your projects well for years to come.” —Andrea Goulet, CEO, Corgibytes, Founder, LegacyCode.Rocks
“. . . lightning does strike twice, and this book is proof.” —VM (Vicky) Brasseur, Director of Open Source Strategy, Juniper Networks
The Pragmatic Programmer is one of those rare tech books you’ll read, re-read, and read again over the years. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you’ll come away with fresh insights each and every time.
Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of books, screencasts, and audio books, as well as thousands of careers and success stories.
Now, twenty years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and you’ll learn how to:
Fight software rot
Learn continuously
Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge
Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code
Harness the power of basic tools
Avoid programming by coincidence
Learn real requirements
Solve the underlying problems of concurrent code
Guard against security vulnerabilities
Build teams of Pragmatic Programmers
Take responsibility for your work and career
Test ruthlessly and effectively, including property-based testing
Implement the Pragmatic Starter Kit
Delight your users
Written as a series of self-contained sections and filled with classic and fresh anecdotes, thoughtful examples, and interesting analogies, The Pragmatic Programmer illustrates the best approaches and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Whether you’re a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you’ll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You’ll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career.
You’ll become a Pragmatic Programmer.
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William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a "proper" family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

《艺术的故事》概括地叙述了从最早的洞窟绘画到当今的实验艺术的发展历程，以阐明艺术史是“各种传统不断迂回、不断改变的历史，每一件作品在这历史中都既回顾过去又导向未来。
继1997年三联版《艺术的故事》后，英国费顿出版社授权广西美术出版社独家出版，也是国内唯一合法授权的版本。

一部感人至深的长篇散文，记录了佐野洋子与母亲迟到六十年的和解。成长过程中的种种不理解与怨恨，在得了老年痴呆症的母亲被送进养老院后，慢慢发生了变化。爱与恨、伤痛与和解交织在一起，母亲的一生被记录，不再是无人知晓的人。
作为佐野洋子晚年的代表作，《静子》在日本出版后引发强烈反响，被誉为“母女和解文学中难以逾越的高峰”。

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love leads them to find a courageous way to part—and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss.
“What a book this is—full of everything that matters . . . gripping, moving, and beautifully told.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Oprah Daily, BookPage
Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease.
Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace.
In this heartbreaking and surprising memoir, Bloom sheds light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing—its ending. Written in Bloom’s captivating, insightful voice and with her trademark wit and candor, In Love is an unforgettable portrait of a beautiful marriage, and a boundary-defying love.

提到占星学，人们下意识的反应通常是：“我这个星座是什么样儿的？”仿佛占星提供的是人生定论、命中注定的赏罚，甚至很多占星师都这样使用它。然而本书指出，成长才是占星的关键，它不该是一种静态的描述，而应该展示流动的生命状态，其中充满选择、机遇和挑战。占星完全能够帮助我们实现“让生活变得不一样”的渴望。
本书是针对出生星盘的占星入门书，突破传统的索引式写作，不再只是互不相干的碎片陈述。通过本书，你将掌握行星、星座、宫位等基本占星元素的含义，以及如何将它们组合在一起的灵活实用的方法，更重要的，你将学会如何通过占星提高自我认识。也许我们内在的惯性有如珠穆朗玛峰一样巨大，占星学要做的，不是强调这停滞不动的部分，而是对我们生生不息的生命说话。这就是学习占星的理由。

作为一个遵纪守法的好人，也许我们从来没有想过和“暴力”扯上关系。不过如果稍微留意一下现实生活中的谈话方式，并且用心体会各种谈话方式给我们的不同感受，我们一定会发现，有些话的确伤人！言语上的指责、嘲讽、否定、说教以及任意打断、拒不回应、随意出口的评价和结论给我们带来的情感和精神上的创伤，甚至比肉体的伤害更加令人痛苦。这些无心或有意的语言暴力让人与人变得冷漠、隔阂、敌视

亲密关系与泛泛之交有什么区别；大丈夫与小女子真的般配吗；吸引力的秘密是什么；男人与女人真的是不同的动物吗；同性恋真的是由基因决定的吗；单亲家庭的孩子长大后更容易离婚吗……什么是爱情？由什么构成？能持续多久？两性在发生一夜情及选择终身伴侣上有什么差异？爱情和性欲是由不同的脑区控制吗？亲密关系美满的秘诀是什么？有什么方法能让婚姻持续一生？米勒教授在《亲密关系》中回答了这些问题，尤其澄清了通俗心理学所宣扬的经验之谈，甚至某些错误观点。
《亲密关系》汲取了社会心理学、沟通研究、家庭研究、认知心理学、发展心理学、演化心理学、社会学、传播学及家政学等学科的最新成果，研究实践和理论建构并重，学术标准与大众兴趣兼备。全书结构清晰、逻辑严密、语言生动、启发思考，既通俗易懂，读来轻松愉快，又科学权威，崇尚实证精神。本书遵循由浅入深、由一般到特殊的认知规律，论述了亲密关系的基础、活动形态、类型、矛盾和修复等内容，读完本书，你将对人际吸引、爱情、婚姻、承诺、友谊、激情、沟通、性爱、依恋、择偶、嫉妒、出轨、家暴等亲密关系的方方面面有全新的认识。
亲密关系是人类经验的核心，处理得好能给人带来极大的快乐，处理得不好则会造成重大创伤，因此科学地认识亲密关系，攸关我们每个人的幸福。本书既适合研究亲密关系的专业人士，能给他们带来启发与灵感，也适合每个想爱情甜蜜、婚姻长久、人生幸福的普通读者。