Книги издательства "Little, Brown and Company"
![]() | The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-ControlA child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behaviour later in life? Walter Mischel`s now iconic "marshmallow test," one of ...... |
![]() | The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an EconomyA million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the ...... |
![]() | The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of AmazonThe definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn`t ...... |
![]() | Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New EconomyYou are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America`s best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling ...... |
![]() | David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the art of Battling GiantsThree thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and ...... |
![]() | Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?How many golf balls will fit in a school bus? You and your friend are sharing a pizza. How many equal slices should there be to give you the most pizza possible? These are just a few of the seemingly impossible-to-answer questions found in this ...... |
![]() | Steve JobsFrom bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs` professional and personal life. Drawn from three ...... |
![]() | Outliers: The Story of Success"Outliers: The Story of Success" can be enjoyed for its bits of trivia, like why most pro hockey players were born in January, how many hours of practice it takes to master a skill, why the descendents of Jewish immigrant garment workers became ...... |
![]() | Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution"Natural Capitalism" as an idea and thesis for a book emerged in 1994, the year after the publication of "The Ecology of Commerce". After meeting with and speaking to different business, government, and academic institutions in the aftermath of ...... |