Communication is an art, and anyone--whether shy or outgoing--can improve his or her conversational skills. In "Confident Conversation," Mike Bechtle offers a straightforward guide to making good conversation that works for any personality type. He highlights the art of give and take, stresses the importance of listening, and gives confidence to those who hesitate to strike up...(展开全部)

Feel like you’re trying doing a bad impression of an extrovert, or you’re a “party pooper” because you turn down invites?If you have (1) felt massive relief at cancelled plans, (2)had mild to huge annoyance in huge gatherings of strangers, and (3) want to figure out how to socialize better and more effectively without social fatigue, this book is for you – written by someone ex...(展开全部)

You’re about to have an uncomfortable meeting with your boss. The principal just called about your middle-schooler. You had a fight with your partner and it’s an hour before bed. You know your next move will go a long way toward defining your relationships with these individuals. So what do you do? We all find ourselves in situations similar to these and too often resort to the...(展开全部)

For nearly twenty years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his bestseller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This new edition brings the art of having a conversation up to date. By following the simple and dynamic guidelines in this easy-to-read book, you'll be ready to strike up a grea...(展开全部)

Kevin Cheng曾在Yahoo和Twitter担任产品经理。他是网络漫画《OK/Cancel》（okcancel.com）的作者。Kevin毕业于伦敦大学学院，获得了人机交互和人机工程学硕士学位。他曾在Interaction、IA Summit、User Interface Conference、UXWeek和South by Southwest等多个会议上发言，主题涉及设计、漫画和增强现实。

Benny Lewis, who speaks ten languages and counting—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in t...(展开全部)

Executive Power arms readers with effective, fast-acting techniques that show them, step-by-step, how to get what they need before they and their companies pay a heavy toll for lack of it. This book contains specific, carefully formulated psychological tactics that can be applied to any business situation, with any person. This book offers readers the opportunity to use the mos...(展开全部)

马里奥•巴尔加斯•略萨（Mario Vargas Llosa，1936— ）拥有秘鲁与西班牙双重国籍的著名作家，创作小说、剧本、随笔、文学评论、政论杂文等。诡谲瑰奇的小说技法与丰富深刻的内容为他带来“结构现实主义大师”的称号，使他成为“拉美文学爆炸”四主将之一。曾获海明威文学奖、塞万提斯文学奖、耶路撒冷文学奖等，2010年获诺贝尔文学奖。2011年被西班牙国王封为第一代巴尔加斯•略萨侯爵。 译者简介 孙家孟（1934-2013）中国第一代西班牙语翻译家，毕业于北京外国语学院西班牙语系，1981—1982 年留学秘鲁，曾先后担任中国西葡语教学研究会副会长、中国西葡拉美文学研究会常务理事、中国外语教学研究会理事等职务。2013 年因病逝世于南京。译著有：《酒吧长谈》《绿房子》《潘达雷昂上尉与劳军女郎》《凯尔特人之梦》等。

In this unique volume, James Hackney invites readers to enter the minds of 10 legal experts that in the late 20th century changed the way we understand and use theory in law today. True to the title of the book, Hackney spent hours in conversation with legal intellectuals, interviewing them about their early lives as thinkers and scholars, their contributions to American legal ...(展开全部)