Even when everything is going wrong, the science of happiness can help you! Pioneering positive psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author Tal Ben-Shahar shows us how in Happier, No Matter What. Ben-Shahar busts the all-too-common ideas that success brings happiness and that we can seek happiness itself. When hard times thwart our success and steal our joy, these ideas ...(展开全部)

“我们如此深爱着自己的孩子，但不知什么原因，他们就是不听我们的。” 《因为爱，所以节制》是美国家庭教育专家布伦达•加里森教育孩子的心得，也是写给天下父母的心灵成长课。她告诉我们：“如果把孩子的生活当作我们自己的生活来处理，那样只会拉大他们和我们之间的距离。” 本书通过不同案例，讲述了父母与青春期孩子相处的方式方法，从孩子和父母两个角度分析了建立亲密关系的必要性，因为亲密关系是一切教育问题的基础。“因为没有了与孩子的融洽关系，我们就什么都没有了，没有了影响力，没有了帮助孩子的途径，也没有办法引领他们走向成长。” 要想与孩子保持密切的关系，做父母的必须真诚，实实在在地关爱孩子，而不要想着怎么搞定他们，更不能担心别人怎么看我们。 如果只能对孩子做一件事，那就是让他们知道：“无论发生什么，亲爱的孩子，我们都爱你。”

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 10...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint.

在线阅读本书 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint.

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 10...(展开全部)

Reason, Facts, and statistics... Dickensa scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideasaand ultimately, a celebration of love, hop...(展开全部)

With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book—or even steady journal articles—may seem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen proves, it really is possible to write happily and productively in academe. Jensen begins by busting the myth that universities are supportive writi...(展开全部)

Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. "Living in Hope and History" is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure--an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers...(展开全部)

Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of t...(展开全部)