The Wall Street Journal bestseller, now with new material. The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants her readers to succeed. To do that, she explains, one must transform everyday conversations employing effective ways to get the message across. In this guide, which includes exercises and tools to take you step by step through ...(展开全部)

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved, this story writer, poet, essayist, and man of letters died at age eighty-six. This anthology of interviews with him features more than a dozen conversations that cove...(展开全部)

薇薇安·戈尔尼克（Vivian Gornick，1935-） 1935年出生于纽约的一个工人家庭，投身20世纪60、70年代女权运动，美国女权主义作家。她从60年代开始写作，出版作品均为非虚构（回忆录、文学批评、散文等），多部作品曾入围美国国家书评人协会奖，被誉为“非虚构写作大师”。戈尔尼克关注女性问题，反思女性在成长不同阶段面临的处境，尖锐地刻画发生在女性之间的友谊和“战争”。

The author recounts her childhood experiences living in a tenement, looks at her relationship with her mother, and describes the lives of women bound to husbands they didn't love

薇薇安·戈尔尼克（Vivian Gornick，1935-） 1935年出生于纽约的一个工人家庭，投身20世纪60、70年代女权运动，美国女权主义作家。她从60年代开始写作，出版作品均为非虚构（回忆录、文学批评、散文等），多部作品曾入围美国国家书评人协会奖，被誉为“非虚构写作大师”。戈尔尼克关注女性问题，反思女性在成长不同阶段面临的处境，尖锐地刻画发生在女性之间的友谊和“战争”。

在线阅读本书 Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL "Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's his...(展开全部)

From one of the Observer's Rising Stars of 2017, a high-risk, highbrow and intimate novel – and one of the most anticipated works of fiction this year. Features Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa, four characters who ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and,...(展开全部)

Gustav Janouch met Franz Kafka, the celebrated author of The Metamorphosis, as a seventeen-year-old fledgling poet. As Francine Prose notes in her wonderful preface, “they fell into the habit of taking long strolls through the city, strolls on which Kafka seems to have said many amazing, incisive, literary, and per- things to his companion and interlocutor, the teenage Boswell ...(展开全部)

Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve elicits answers to these questions from eleven outstanding philosophers and social scientists: Ken Binmore Philippa Foot Harry Frankfurt Allan Gibbard Daniel Kahneman Frances...(展开全部)

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and ...(展开全部)