New Releases by Daniel Coyle

Tyler Hamilton was een van de meest geliefde en snelste wielrenners ter wereld. Zijn jarenlange dopinggebruik heeft hij altijd ontkend. In De wielermaffia vertelt hij voor het eerst zijn verhaal. Hij laat zien hoe de wereld van het professionele wielrennen met de komst van het `wondermiddel EPO midden jaren negentig in korte tijd drastisch veranderde. Om in de Tour met de besten mee te kunnen komen, kon je niet anders dan doping gebruiken. Meer nog dan Hamilton was zijn vriend en ploeggenoot Lance Armstrong een spin in het dopingweb. Hij was het die EPO faciliteerde, contacten onderhield met de meest vooraanstaande artsen onder wie de sluwe Italiaanse dokter Michele Ferrari en zijn mederenners dwong om doping te gebruiken.

A manual for building a faster brain and a better you! The Little Book of Talent is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from the world’s greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives. Whether you’re age 10 or 100, whether you’re on the sports field or the stage, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better?” Praise for The Little Book of Talent “The Little Book of Talent should be given to every graduate at commencement, every new parent in a delivery room, every executive on the first day of work. It is a guidebook—beautiful in its simplicity and backed by hard science—for nurturing excellence.”—Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit “It’s so juvenile to throw around hyperbolic terms such as ‘life-changing,’ but there’s no other way to describe The Little Book of Talent. I was avidly trying new things within the first half hour of reading it and haven’t stopped since. Brilliant. And yes: life-changing.”—Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence

Bakat Sukses adalah buku panduan siap pakai yang sudah terbukti secara ilmiah, sebuah metode praktis yang telah teruji untuk meningkatkan keterampilan Anda dalam berbagai bidang: olahraga, musik, seni, matematika, bisnis, dan sebagainya. Apakah Anda berusia 10 atau 100 tahun, apakah Anda di lapangan olahraga atau di atas panggung, di kelas atau di kantor, inilah panduan efektif bagi siapa saja yang kerap bertanya, “Bagaimana saya bisa lebih baik?” Buku kecil ini merupakan hasil riset panjang dari berbagai kawasan subur dunia bakat. Dalam 52 tips mengesankan ini, penulisnya menawarkan saran praktis dan sederhana, dengan arahan singkat dan jelas, untuk mencapai hal-hal besar. Terinspirasi oleh kebijaksanaan para guru, pelatih, dan pengusaha sukses serta didukung dengan contoh mengagumkan dari sosok luar biasa seperti Einstein, Mozart, dan Roger Federer, buku ini bukanlah “kitab” ilmu pengetahuan yang ketat teori, bukan pula buku “motivasi” dengan kata-kata bombastis tak berarti. Lebih dari itu, ini benar-benar buku how-to bagi yang ingin merealisasikan impian terbesarnya.

This dissertation consists of a philological and philosophical exploration of the Guiguzi 鬼谷子. It establishes the sinological background of the text through a detailed contextual study and locates Master Guigu in the Chinese intellectual tradition. Guiguzi is the legendary transmitter of the Sunzi bingfa ("Art of War") tradition, said to have bestowed his text upon Sun Bin. The research reveals that the Book of Master Guigu conceives a comprehensive "art of persuasion" by promoting an unassuaging efficacy within an early Daoist cosmological framework. [Hardcover reprint from a new scan of the 2000 edition]

Traditional Chinese edition of The Talent Code: Greatness Isnt Born. Its Grown. Heres How. Journalist Coyle has done extensive research on "talent" and demystify it for us. Talent, Coyle concludes, is not inborn. We reach our full potential with coaching, motivation and practice. Coyle believes that most "talent-less" people are only "talent-less" because they didn''t unleash their full potential. In Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Als er iets is dat het leven van Lance Armstrong typeert - behalve dat hij een succesvol gevecht voerde tegen kanker, zeven keer de Tour de France won, uitgroeide tot een media-icoon en herhaaldelijk van dopinggebruik werd beschuldigd - dan is het wel zijn onbreekbare wil om te winnen. Ten koste van alles en iedereen. Armstrong krabbelt weer op na de bijna verloren Tour van 2003, verwerkt een pijnlijke scheiding, speelt psychologische spelletjes met renners als Jan Ullrich en houdt zich staande in een mediacircus van jetsetters, controversiële Italiaanse sportartsen, advocaten en de dopingheksenjacht van Franse pers en politie, die uitgerekend na Armstrongs afscheid steeds grotere vormen aanneemt. Dit alles maakt de lezer van zeer nabij mee - alsof Daniel Coyle bij Armstrong achterop de fiets zat. Wat drijft deze man? Lance Armstrongs oorlog geeft op uiterst onderhoudende wijze antwoord. En is daarmee dé biografie van een van de grootste sportmensen aller tijden. ''Een proeve van Amerikaanse sportjournalistiek in de beste tradities.'' - de Volkskrant ''Het is eigenlijk veel leuker in boekvorm dan op tv.'' - Sunday Telegraph Daniel Coyle schreef onder meer Hardball en Waking Samuel. Zijn werk werd opgenomen in The Best American Sports Writing. Hij woont in Alaska met zijn vier kinderen. Benjo Maso schreef onder meer Wij waren allemaal goden. De Tour van 1948.''

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything. • Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice. • Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development. • Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students. These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.

New York Times Bestseller: An “intimate, insightful, unflinching” portrait of the cyclist as he trains for—and triumphs in—the Tour de France (Jon Krakauer, New York Times–bestselling author of Into the Wild). This is an extraordinary story of greatness pushed to its limits; a vivid, behind-the-scenes portrait of perhaps the most accomplished athlete of our time as he vies for a historic sixth straight victory in the toughest sporting event on the planet. It is the true story of a superlative sports figure fighting on all fronts—made newly vulnerable by age, fate, fame, doping allegations, a painful divorce, and an unprecedented army of challengers—while mastering the exceedingly difficult trick of being Lance Armstrong, a combination of world-class athlete, celebrity, regular guy, and, for many Americans, secular saint. With a new afterword by the author, this updated edition features in-depth reporting on Armstrong’s unprecedented seventh consecutive Tour de France victory; new blood doping allegations; his continuing personal and legal battles; and his retirement. A fascinating journey through the little-known landscape of professional bike racing, Lance Armstrong’s War provides a hugely insightful look into the often inspiring, always surprising core of a remarkable athlete and the world that shapes him. “Well-researched and entertaining . . . his reporting is, quite simply, amazing.” —The New York Times “Fueled by superb reporting and the built-in suspense of the 2004 Tour, Lance Armstrong’s War is the equal of its distinguished and very complicated subject.” —Booklist (starred review) “Brisk and brilliant . . . captures the fabulous life and fast times of an international icon—and pierces the mystic heart of motivation itself.” —Hampton Sides, New York Times–bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers

After the loss of her only son, Sara Black finds herself spending more and more time at the Seattle hospital where she is a nurse, tending to "the tall man," the victim of a gunshot wound whose identity has remained a provocative riddle-until he starts talking. As the man she knows as Samuel draws Sara into a strange and chilling story about his past on an Alaskan island, she must face some truths of her own, as well as the realization that the patient to whom she''s devoted herself may not be who he says he is.

A 12-week feeding trial was conducted in aquaria with juvenile (36.0±1.2g) largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) to examine the effects of dietary supplementation of methionine, lysine, and long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids on growth, feed conversion and body composition. Diets were formulated to increase dietary concentrations of methionine, lysine, and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) to match levels found in whole body samples of largemouth bass in previous research. All diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous (47% protein) and isocaloric (2.7 kcal digestible energy g −1). The control diet was formulated similar to diets previously tested for largemouth bass. Diets 2 and 3 were similar to the control diet but were supplemented with 2% lysine and 1% methionine, respectively. Diet 4 was formulated to increase long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially docosohexanoic acid (DHA) (22:6 u-3), by replacing menhaden fish oil with squid oil. Fish were fed all they would consume in 10 minutes, twice daily. At harvest, there were no statistically significant differences (P>0.05) in average individual weight or specific growth rate (SGR) among fish fed the four diets. The feed conversion ratio (FCR) of largemouth bass fed the diet supplemented with methionine (1.7) was significantly lower (P

With frankness and poignancy, he tells of the team''s joys, losses, and small but essential victories, and of the neophyte coaches whose role moves haltingly from teaching baseball to being big brothers, disciplinarians and ultimately friends.

• Tác giả của Khám phá sức mạnh văn hóa đội nhóm sẽ hé lộ những bí mật của các nhóm vô cùng thành công và cung cấp cho các nhà lãnh đạo tương lai các công cụ để xây dựng một nền văn hóa gắn kết, năng động và truyền cảm hứng. MỘT TRONG NHỮNG CUỐN SÁCH HAY NHẤT TRONG NĂM THEO BÌNH CHỌN CỦA BLOOMBERG VÀ LIBRARY JOURNAL. Văn hóa tuyệt vời đến từ đâu? Làm thế nào bạn có thể xây dựng và duy trì nó trong nhóm của mình hoặc củng cố một nền văn hóa cần sửa chữa? Trong Khám phá sức mạnh văn hóa đội nhóm, Daniel Coyle sẽ tiếp cận một số tổ chức thành công nhất trên thế giới – bao gồm Đội đặc nhiệm SEAL số 6, IDEO và San Antonio Spurs – qua đó tiết lộ những điều khiến họ trở nên nổi bật. Ông làm sáng tỏ quá trình xây dựng văn hóa bằng cách xác định ba kỹ năng chính tạo ra sự gắn kết và hợp tác, đồng thời giải thích cách các nhóm đa dạng học cách vận hành dựa trên một tư duy duy nhất. Dựa trên các ví dụ bao gồm từ nhà bán lẻ Internet Zappos đến đoàn hài kịch Upright Citizens Brigade đến một băng nhóm trộm đồ trang sức táo bạo, Coyle đưa ra các chiến lược cụ thể nhằm kích thích sự học hỏi, khơi gợi sự hợp tác, xây dựng lòng tin và thúc đẩy sự thay đổi theo hướng tích cực. Coyle khai thác những câu chuyện hữu ích về thất bại để minh họa những điều không nên làm, gỡ rối những cạm bẫy thường gặp và chia sẻ lời khuyên về việc cải tổ một nền văn hóa độc hại. Kết hợp khoa học tiên tiến hàng đầu, những hiểu biết thực tế từ các nhà lãnh đạo đẳng cấp thế giới và những ý tưởng thiết thực, Khám phá sức mạnh văn hóa đội nhóm đưa ra một lộ trình để tạo ra một môi trường nơi sự đổi mới đơm hoa, các vấn đề được giải quyết và các kỳ vọng vượt quá mong đợi. Văn hóa không phải là thứ bạn có – mà là thứ bạn làm. Khám phá sức mạnh văn hóa đội nhóm đặt quyền lực vàog tay bạn. Bất kể quy mô nhóm của bạn hay mục tiêu của bạn, cuốn sách này có thể dạy bạn các nguyên tắc tương tác văn hóa để biến đổi các cá nhân thành các nhóm có thể cùng nhau hoàn thành những điều tuyệt vời.

Qual é o segredo do talento? Como desvendá-lo? Neste livro, Daniel Coyle apresenta três elementos importantes que permitem o desenvolvimento de dons e otimização de performance nos esportes, na arte, música, matemática e em outras áreas. Os três elementos, ao serem trabalhados juntos, fazem o cérebro produzir mielina, uma substância neural que aumenta a velocidade e precisão. Combinando análise com exemplos reais, o objetivo da obra é fazer com que o leitor mude sua visão sobre o talento e o prepare para que seu maior potencial seja atingido.