In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault, a multivolume novel, were translated into English and read widely. Today, this close friend of Andre[...]

Författaren vill här ge er en försmak på ett skönt och rikt kärleksliv. För det vill han tacka en kvinna som var i trettioårsåldern då han själv var femton. Hon tog honom i upplärning i älskogens grunder. Speciellt sett från en kvinnas önskemål och förhoppningar. Varje gång han h[...]

For many decades, the proponents of 'artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating roller-coaster ride through the basic principles of physics, co[...]

The idea of reliving youth is a common fantasy, but who among us is actually courageous enough to try it? After surviving a deadly cancer against tremendous odds, college president Roger H. Martin did just that - he enrolled at St. John's College, the Great Books school in Annapolis, Maryland, as a [...]

Tells the story of important historical events in a narrative format that can capture kids' imaginations and teach them key facts and details.[...]

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in "The Opposable Mind". Though following 'best practice' can help in some ways, it also poses a danger: by emulating what a great leader did in a [...]

American capitalism is in dire straits, caught in a perilous pattern of increasing volatility, decreasing investor returns, and ongoing bad behavior by executives. And it's getting worse. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we've seen two massive value-destroying market meltdowns and a strin[...]

Martin Nowak, one of the world's experts on evolution and game theory, working here with bestselling science writer Roger Highfield, turns an important aspect of evolutionary theory on its head to explain why cooperation, not competition, has always been the key to the evolution of complexity. In hi[...]

This is A.G. Lafley's guidebook. Shouldn't it be yours as well?Winning CEO A.G. Lafley is now back at the helm of consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble. If you want to know the strategy he?ll use to restore P&G to its former dominance?listen to this audiobook."Playing to Win," a noted "Wall Street J[...]

Everyone is familiar with Darwin's revolutionary idea about the survival of the fittest, and most people agree that it works, but Darwin's famous theory has one major chink. If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some p[...]

Complete summary of A. G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin's book: "e;Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works"e;.This summary of the ideas from A. G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin's book "e;Playing to Win"e; explains that strategy involves playing simple choices. In their book, the authors [...]