THE MARSHMALLOW TEST : UNDERSTANDING SELF-CONTROL AND HOW TO MASTER IT (Hết hàng)
Author: Walter Mischel
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780316423908 | Giá: 197,000 đ)
A 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 most famous experiments in the history of psychology, proved that the ability to delay gratification is critical to living a successful and fulfilling life: self-control not only predicts higher marks in school, better social and cognitive functioning, ...

A NIGHT IN WITH GRACE KELLY (Hết hàng)
Author: Lucy Holliday
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780007583836 | Giá: 126,000 đ)
The LOL finale to the series that started with A Night in With Audrey Hepburn. Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Lindsey Kelk. Fate has got it in for Libby Lomax. She realised, far too late, that her best friend Olly, is the actual Love of Her Life. Now he’s in love with the so-nice-it-hurts, Tash, and it looks like her happy ending is completely out of reach. Things start looking up when she, quite literally, runs into the completely gorgeous Joel. Libby discovers that there is ...

THE LAST SONG (Hết hàng)
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780446570961 | Giá: 142,000 đ)
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in ...

WORK RULES! INSIGHTS FROM INSIDE GOOGLE THAT WILL TRANSFORM HOW YOU LIVE AND LEAD (Hết hàng)
Author: Laszlo Bock
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9781538749289 | Giá: 188,000 đ)
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WHAT CLIENTS LOVE: A FIELD GUIDE TO GROWING YOUR BUSINESS (Hết hàng)
Author: Harry Beckwith
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780446556026 | Giá: 315,000 đ)
Harry Beckwith is the author of Selling the Invisible and The Invisible Touch, both marketing classics. Now he applies his unparalleled clarity, insight, humor, and expertise to a new age of mass communication and mass confusion. What Clients Love will help you stand out from the crowd-and sell anything to anyone. From making a pitch to building a brand, from designing a logo to closing a sale, this is a field guide to take with you to the front lines of today's business battles. Filled with ...

QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN'T STOP TALKING (Hết hàng)
Author: Susan Cain
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780307352156 | Giá: 254,000 đ)
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society. In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert ...

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Hết hàng)
Author: Mark Twain - Padgett Powell
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780451530943 | Giá: 99,000 đ)
The adventure of a lifetime Tom Sawyeras pal Huck Finn finds himself on the run, floating down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave. With rich description as well as sharp satire, Twain vividly recreates the world he knew as a child.   Minh Khai bookstore would like to ...

OPTIMISTS DIE FIRST (Hết hàng)
Author: Susin Nielsen
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9781783446223 | Giá: 163,000 đ)
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(HARD-COVER) EVERY LAST WORD (Hết hàng)
Author: Tamara Ireland Stone
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9781484705278 | Giá: 355,000 đ)
If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends ...

STARBUCKED - A DOUBLE TALL TALE OF CAFFEINE (Hết hàng)
Author: Taylor Clark
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780316014038 | Giá: 315,000 đ)
Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the coffeehouse movement changed our everyday lives, from our evolving neighborhoods and workplaces to the ways we shop, socialize, and self-medicate. In STARBUCKED, Taylor Clark provides an objective, meticulously reported look at the volatile issues like gentrification and fair trade that distress activists and coffee zealots alike. Through a cast ...

THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE (Hết hàng)
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780316679077 | Giá: 174,000 đ)
In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change.   Minh Khai bookstore would like to ...

LONG WALK TO FREEDOM: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NELSON MANDELA (Hết hàng)
Author: Nelson Mandela
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780316034784 | Giá: 197,000 đ)
Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most potent moral leader since Gandhi. As president of the ANC and head of the anti-apartheid movement, he has been instrumental in moving South Africa toward black-majority rule. Throughout the world he is revered as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. In this autobiography Nelson Mandela details the development of his political consciousess and describes his pivotal role in the ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI (Hết hàng)
Author: Walter Isaacson
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9781501139161 | Giá: 384,000 đ)
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San ...

DEAR JOHN (Hết hàng)
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780446567336 | Giá: 158,000 đ)
An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with ...

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (Hết hàng)
Author: Mark Twain
Thể loại: Literature & Fiction (ISBN: 9780451530936 | Giá: 91,200 đ)
The classic adventures of one of American literature s most beloved characters from one of America s best-loved writers. Here is a lighthearted excursion into boyhood, a nostalgic return into the simple, rural Missouri world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, and Aunt Polly. It is a universal world of attending school and playing hooky, pranks and punishments, villains and desperate adventure, seen through the eyes of a boy who might be the young Mark Twain himself. There is ...