All of us have to deal with difficult people. Whether we’re asking our neighbor to move a fence or our boss for a pay rise, we can struggle to avoid arguments and get what we want. Laurence and Emily Alison are world leaders in forensic psychology, and they specialize in the most difficult interactions imaginable: criminal interrogations. They advise and train the police, secur...(展开全部)

For the millions of readers who have been inspired by the steamy bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey to throw a bit more spice into their sex lives, this simple and highly accessible guide to BDSM(Bondage, Dominance, Sadism, and Masochism) features 50 edgy and erotic adventures to sample. Warning: you should try this at home! From turning your ho hum bedroom into a “Red Room...(展开全部)

Steven Gary Blank 博士的创业生涯始于1978年，他一共创办了八家公司，包括一家企业级软件公司（E.piphany）、两家半导体芯片公司（Zilog和MIPS Computers）、一家培训公司（Convergent Technologies）、一家超级 计算机公司（Ardent）、一家计算机配件公司（SuperMac）、一家军事情报系统公司（ESL）和一家游戏公司（Rocket Science Games）。 创业之余，Blank博士还担任多家硅谷科技公司的创业顾问和董事。《四步创业法》的理念和方法正是源于Blank博士和硅谷同行丰富的创业实践经验。 目前，Blank博士在加州大学伯克利分校哈斯商学院、哥伦比亚商学院、斯坦福大学工科研究生院教授创业与客户发展的课程。 他是最早提出客户发展概念的硅谷企业家，其创业理论影响了一大批硅谷创...(展开全部)

"Which of the Relationship Secrets within this book will change your life?" A great relationship can make experiencing the highs of life more exciting and the lows much easier to deal with. And when it comes to business, networking with powerful people can be the thing to take your success to a new level. There's just one problem... Creating close, meaningful relationships can ...(展开全部)

Over the course of the chronicles and literary essays that make up this volume, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading. Whether it is in the course of a carefully considered commentary on a specific book, or in the digressions born out of a piece on this or that author - from Parra, Levrero and Pavese to Millan, Ribeyro, Tanizaki or Bolano, Natalia Ginzb...(展开全部)

Drawing on nearly forty years of tarot experience, Mary K. Greer has developed a new energizing approach-made up of twenty-one stimulating techniques-to interpret or deepen your understanding of each card. Just as the twenty-one letters of the alphabet can be combined to form billions of words, Greer's twenty-one methods can be used in any combination for gaining amazing new in...(展开全部)

'I realized it was necessary to demolish everything and start again right from the foundations, if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stable and likely to last' - Rene Descartes. Revered as the 'father of modern philosophy', Descartes is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, but his ideas are also highly controversial and have been subjected...(展开全部)

Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other key aspects of the "Essais" (Montaigne's major work) not as philosophical themes but as features in the mapping of a mental lan...(展开全部)

The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jacques Lacan's core ideas about enjoyment, which re-created our concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan s motto of the ethics of psychoanalysis involves a profoun...(展开全部)

A Latin grammar book and reader all in one when the text and workbook are used together, "Learn to Read Latin" presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples, and it offers direct access to great works of Latin literature even at the earliest stages of learning the language. As beginning students learn basic forms and grammar, they also gain fam...(展开全部)