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基本信息·出版社：HarperCollins Publishers
·页码：304 页
·出版日期：2006年09月
·ISBN：0060891696
·条形码：9780060891695
·版本：2006-09-01
·装帧：精装
·开本：20开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：此书必读
内容简介 Book DescriptionWe all have memories of a book that stirred mind and soul; that became more resonant over time. When a book sweeps us away, we remember and tell people. Sharing the experience is a double gift: it reveals us meaningfully while extending the possibility of pleasure and insight to others.
YOU'VE GOT TO READ THIS BOOK! is just such a double gift. In it, some of today's most interesting and prominent people share the books that have been transformational to them, and why. Readers will encounter well–known names in personal motivation, business, entertainment, and more, such as Malachy McCourt, Christiane Northrup, M.D., Dave Barry, Stephen Covey, Mark Victor Hansen, and John Gray, among others, as well as Canfield and Hendricks themselves. These essays will inspire, inform, and motivate readers to recall and pursue their own transforming experiences with books, charting a path to a more resonant life.
From Publishers WeeklyCanfield, the brains behind the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Hendricks (Conscious Living) stay in the inspirational mode with this collection of dozens of entertainers, sports personalities, businesspeople, writers, environmentalists and activists telling up-by-their-bootstraps stories involving books. Some, like Dave Barry (inspired by humorist Robert Benchley) and Lou Holtz (David Schwartz's The Magic of Thinking Big) are well known. Other are recognizable for the products they've created: Craigslist founder Craig Newmark praises The Cluetrain Manifesto, which mirrored his own early belief in the power of the Internet. Among the more memorable contributions is that of 21-year-old Farrah Gray, who spent his early childhood on public assistance, read Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success at age 11 and made his first million at 14. Two contributors—motivational speaker Lisa Nichols and eBay COO Maynard Webb—cite Stephen Covey's best-selling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Covey himself was uplifted by heady reading—Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and E.F. Schumacher's A Guide for the Perplexed—both books, he says, affecting everything from his parenting to his teaching. It's a mixed bag, more uplifting than literary, but readers may find the book that turns them on the way these contributors were. (Sept.).
From BooklistCanfield, the co-creator and editor of the enormously successful Chicken Soup for the Soulseries, and psychologist and author Hendricks have surveyed 55 individuals--each of whom qualifies as a leader or a visionary in their respective fields--to compile a fascinating collection of stories about the undisputedly transformative power of reading. Representative actors, politicians, musicians, writers, athletes, psychologists, businessmen, human-rights advocates, and many others--both familiar and unfamiliar--talk about the one book that impacted their soul and changed the emotional, physical, spiritual, or material course of their life. What makes this especially intriguing reading is not only the diversity of titles cited as life altering and life affirming but also the instantaneously visceral reactions recounted by the readers. Well-known contributors include Dave Barry, Catherine Oxenburg, Kenny Loggins, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Lou Holtz, Max Edelman, Bernie Siegal, and a host of others. Not so much about the books themselves, but more about the absolutely magical power of the written word, this must-read is sure to provide inspiration, motivation, and a springboard for discussion among book people and book clubs everywhere.
Margaret Flanagan
Book Dimension length: (cm)24.2 width:(cm)16.1
作者简介 Jack Canfield, America's Success Coach, is the cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul? series, which includes 40
New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor with Gay Hendricks of
You've GOT to Read This Book! An internationally renowned corporate trainer, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk show guest, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.
