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)

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

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

斯科特·帕尔默（Scott Palmer） 宝芬妮·帕尔默（Bethany Palmer） 帕尔默夫妇是美国著名的“金钱伉俪”，致力于通过他们发现的5种金钱人格帮助其他人加强夫妻间的关系。他们具有38年的财务计划经验，并发起了“有钱夫妻”的活动，还经常出现在电视节目和广播中，向全球传播他们关于爱和金钱的理念。斯科特和宝芬妮很享受目前这种积极的生活方式。

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)

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)

Jean Cocteau（1889-1963）20世纪法国著名诗人、小说家、电影导演、画家、戏剧家、音乐评论家……他起草了现代派纲领并广泛地实施于艺术创作领域。1889年7月5日生于巴黎附近的拉斐特府 ，1963年10月11日卒 于枫丹白露附近的别墅。著有诗集《好望角》、《素歌》、《寓意》、《明暗》、《安魂曲》等20余本，剧本《俄狄浦斯》、《圆桌骑士》、《可怕的父母》、《打字机》、《双头鹰》、《酒神巴克斯》等17部，小说《波托马克》、《骗子托马》、《调皮捣蛋的孩子们》等7部，以及散文集《职业的秘密》、《无名氏日记》等。1955年当选为法兰西学院院士。