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In today's fast-paced networked economy, professionals must work harder than ever to maintain and improve their business skills and knowledge. But technical mastery of one's discipline is not enough, assert professional advisors David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford. The key to professional success, they argue, is the ability to earn the trust and confidence of clients. In this 20th anniversary edition, Maister, Green, and Galford enrich our understanding of today's society and illustrate how to be effective communicators in a digital world.

In their book Abundance, best-selling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the best-selling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next 10 years of rapid technological disruption.

US psychologist Abraham Maslow’s A Theory of Human Motivation is a classic of psychological research that helped change the field for good. Like many field-changing thinkers, Maslow was not just a talented researcher, he was also a creative thinker - able to see things from a new perspective and show them in a different light. He studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people.

故郷を求めて流浪の旅を続ける若者、イラノン。彼は、自らを王子と称し、故郷や夢に思いを馳せ歌に乗せる。しかし、旅の道々で出会う人々は彼の歌を笑い、背を向ける。美しく優しい光りに満ちた故郷を目指すイラノンは、その途中で道連れと出会い、長い年月の流浪の果てにとある都へと辿り着くことになる。その都は歌と踊りで賑わい、人々はイラノンの歌を聴き、そして彼にバラの花を投げ、拍手を贈るが… いわゆるラブクラフトのSF・ホラー作品とは一味違う雰囲気を帯びつつも、やはりその根底にはしっかりとラブクラフトの世界を感じられる「夢の国」のファンタジー掌編。 脳裏に浮かぶその鮮やかな世界感は、聴く者をイラノンと共に流浪の旅へと導くであろう。

Between 1895 and 1901 H. G. Wells wrote six science fiction novels, which have become among the most celebrated examples of the genre. In this collection, Wells explores a number of topics that have since become very common subjects in science fiction, including time travel, celestial beings, eugenics, alien invasion, and space exploration.

From making faster, better decisions to automating rote work to enabling robots to respond to emotions, AI and machine learning are already reshaping business and society. What should you and your company be doing today to ensure that you're poised for success and keeping up with your competitors in the age of AI? Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on AI and explains how to launch the right initiatives at your company to capitalize on the opportunity of the machine intelligence revolution.

男はある古書店で見つけた不思議な本を盗み、そこに書かれた儀式を実行したがためにこの世ならぬ世界をさまようことにある。そして出会う宇宙的恐怖の数々。

私の脳裏に繰り返し浮かぶことがある。夢と、夢の属する形のない世界が、時として計り知れない意味を持つことについて、人類の大多数が立ち止まって思いを馳せることはあるのだろうかと…。施設でインターンを務める私のところへ、一人の患者が運ばれてくる。彼が寝ぼけて言うのは不思議な話ばかりだが、私はどうしても彼に何か知性を感じずにはいられない。そこで私は、大学時代に作った心を読み取る器械(失敗作)を 出してきて、ものの試しにつないでみることに……。宿望の精神伝達はやって来るのか…!?

芸術家を夢見るわたしは、ニューヨークへと赴いた。しかし、ニューヨークの地でわたしが得たものは、重々しくのしかかる絶望と、言いようのない孤独だけだった。そんな折、わたしはある老人に出会ったのだ。そしてその老人に案内されるまま、わたしは歴史を感じる古い一軒の家へと導かれた。 悪臭漂う部屋において、カーテンを開け放した窓の外の暗闇を、老人に言われるがままに見つめていると、そこに不思議な光景が広がっていく。 妙な術を使うという老人の支配するそれは、しかしこの世ならざるものであり、まるでその瞬間を待ち望んでいるかのようであった。 古の過去から悪意に満ちた目でこちらをじっと睨みつける恐怖が、老人の術によって呼び覚まされ、オーディオブックで現代に甦る…

In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow - banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another - to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the 17th century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the 20th.

The complete "box set" of T. H. White's epic fantasy novel of the Arthurian legend. The novel is made up of five parts: "The Sword in the Stone", "The Witch in the Wood", "The Ill-Made Knight", "The Candle in the Wind", and "The Book of Merlyn".

Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.

The story of the physical relationship between the aristocratic protagonist Constance Chatterley and gamekeeper Oliver Mellors - which occurs right under the nose of her wheelchair-bound husband, Clifford. In exploring the class system of the early 20th century, the novel also touches upon the declining coal-mining industry, its effect on the workers, and the politics which surrounded it. Yet possibly the most important theme is the individual’s need for physical as well as intellectual satisfaction.

Pollyanna, an expert at her favorite "Glad Game" of always looking at the bright side in her numerous trials, is one of the most popular and enduring characters in all of children's literature. As Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she exclaims, "Oh, Aunt Polly, I don't know how to be glad enough that you let me come to live with you!"

これは「夢の国」の話。ウルタールに住むバルザイという老人が、誰もその姿を目にしたことがない。神々を見んとて、その神々が遊びに下るという峰を登りに旅へと出る。ついに頂上へと着いたバルザイを待ち受けたものとは……!? 神々と人間の対立が描かれた“THE OTHER GODS”「異界の神々」 ……… 今でも大地の神々が時として昔をしのんで踊ることがある。 それは自らが安全であることがはっきりしていたからであり、好んで未知なるカダスから雲の船に乗ってきては、かつてのようにたわむれる。大地がまだ幼く、人間どもが未踏の地へ登ろうとはしなかった時代に、たわむれていたがごとく。

Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative.

What Is the Real Secret of Obtaining Desirable Possessions? Are some people born under a lucky star or other charm which enables them to have all that which seems so desirable, and if not, what is the cause of the difference in conditions under which men live? Many years ago, feeling there must be a logical answer to this question, I decided to find out, if possible, what it was.

Agile, say its enthusiasts, can transform your company, catapulting you to the head of the pack. Not so fast. In this clear-eyed and indispensable audiobook, Sarah Elk and Steve Berez provide a much-needed reality check. They dispel the myths and misconceptions that have accompanied agile's growth - the idea that it can reshape your organization all at once, for instance, or that it should be used in every function and for all types of work.

Warrior Ryn Weaver has proven her courage against a relentless enemy. But now in the great city of Kaldor, she and her Blackwatch friends find themselves in unfamiliar territory. Big city politics were not in the Blackwatch training manuals and Ryn finds that being Paired with Tribunal Mage, Dagan Drake is dangerous to her health. When tensions ferment in the streets and a traitor is suspected within the Tribunal itself. Will Ryn and Dagan be able to stop a full-scale uprising, or will the Kingdom of Myrcea be drawn into a war they might not win?

This Audiobook contains the following works: "The prophet" [Khalil Gibran], "Treasure Island" [Robert Louis Stevenson], "White fang" [Jack London], "The Time machine" [H. G. Wells], "The Battle of Life" [Charles Dickens], "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes" [Arthur Conan Doyle], "The Three Musketeers" [Alexandre Dumas], "The adventures of Pinocchio" [Carlo Collodi], "Robinson Crusoe" [Daniel Defoe], "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [Mark Twain].