Difficult Personalities is a reassuring guide to help us deal with the difficult personalities we encounter daily, as well as with our own. It offers strategies such as anger and conflict management, means of achieving empathy, optimism and assertion, and how to make decisions about difficult relationships. The authors discuss ways to cope with frustrating, confusing and damagi...(展开全部)

All of us have people in our lives who hurt, frustrate or annoy us. Think of those people who claim 'I'm always right ', workplace bullies, or the more extreme personality types who are compulsive and obsessive. Most of us occasionally hurt others, too. Four years in the writing, Difficult Personalities is a reassuring and approachable guide to help us deal with the difficult p...(展开全部)

Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work, ...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth reading" (Margaret Atwood). Translated by William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

In Difficult Loves, Italy’s master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love—including self-love—are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady’s bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach...(展开全部)

In Difficult Loves, Italy’s master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love—including self-love—are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady’s bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach...(展开全部)

Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work, ...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth reading" (Margaret Atwood). Translated by William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

uckworth’s parents think he is a difficult child, so when a snake slides right up and swallows him whole, his parents don’t believe him! What’s poor Duckworth to do? Duckworth is a difficult child. At least that’s what his parents think. So when Duckworth tries to explain that a gigantic snake slithered out of his closet, his parents insist it’s all in his head—he is far too ol...(展开全部)

Assuming no previous knowledge of history, "Personalities and Problems" is a unique collection of original essays about real people whose lives or careers demonstrate solutions to problems of their times. Each chapter focuses on a problem or issue, and illustrates it by discussing the lives of two historical figures (actual or near contemporaries of each other) whose careers il...(展开全部)

Assuming no previous knowledge of history, "Personalities and Problems" is a unique collection of original essays about real people whose lives or careers demonstrate solutions to problems of their times. Each chapter focuses on a problem or issue, and illustrates it by discussing the lives of two historical figures (actual or near contemporaries of each other) whose careers il...(展开全部)

除了卡尔维诺还有谁能如此准确和优美的捕捉普通人生活中的一个个瞬间，并将现实和幻想熔于一炉？一个面包店里的小偷，一个小酒馆里的狂热夜晚，一个陷入性幻想的年轻士兵，一个游泳时发现比基尼泳衣掉了下半截的中产阶级妇女--所有这些都被卡尔维诺的如花妙笔写成了一篇篇杰出探索人类内部复杂世界的小说。在这些二十世纪四五十年代的杰作中，卡尔维诺描写了当对爱的自我欺骗和幻觉（经常是自我恋爱）被揭破时，那些觉悟和警醒的瞬间。Harcourt Brace Jovanovich1983年英语第一版，William Weaver， Archivald Colquhoun， 和Peggy Wright翻译。 Who but Italo Calvino could blend realism and illusion to capture so precisely and so e...(展开全部)