“WE NEED TO TALK.” In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS NPR's Best Books of 2017 Winner of the 2017 Silver Nautilus Award in Relationships & Communication “We Need to Talk is an important read for a conversationally-challen...(展开全部)

我們是著了什麼魔？原本如此的快樂！那麼為什麼，我們會以所擁有的一切為賭注，投入這場豪賭，決定生小孩？ 1999年的一個星期四，即將滿16歲的凱文，在校園內射殺了9個人。他的母親艾娃在一連串寫給丈夫的懺悔信中，回溯懷胎前的猶豫及懷胎後生下凱文，一直到兒子成了殺人犯的整個過程。這位母親自兒子一出生起就討厭他。凱文隨著成長所展露出的毀滅性格更是令她心生畏懼。艾娃試圖從回顧中釐清自己所應背負的過錯與導致這樁慘劇的原因，到最後竟發展出始料未及的結果…… 在這本描繪扭曲母性的精彩小說裡，以校園慘案兇手母親的角度，尖銳地探討美國文化與青少年犯罪之間的關聯，更藉由凱文這個極端的例子，碰觸了一個極為敏感的問題──母親無法接受自己的孩子。作者不時在書中展現精闢的見解，讓讀者對艾娃在譴責與同情之間擺盪。故事接近尾聲時出現懾人心魄的驚悚、扣人心弦的領悟，...(展开全部)

我們是著了什麼魔？原本如此的快樂！那麼為什麼，我們會以所擁有的一切為賭注，投入這場豪賭，決定生小孩？ 1999年的一個星期四，即將滿16歲的凱文，在校園內射殺了9個人。他的母親艾娃在一連串寫給丈夫的懺悔信中，回溯懷胎前的猶豫及懷胎後生下凱文，一直到兒子成了殺人犯的整個過程。這位母親自兒子一出生起就討厭他。凱文隨著成長所展露出的毀滅性格更是令她心生畏懼。艾娃試圖從回顧中釐清自己所應背負的過錯與導致這樁慘劇的原因，到最後竟發展出始料未及的結果…… 在這本描繪扭曲母性的精彩小說裡，以校園慘案兇手母親的角度，尖銳地探討美國文化與青少年犯罪之間的關聯，更藉由凱文這個極端的例子，碰觸了一個極為敏感的問題──母親無法接受自己的孩子。作者不時在書中展現精闢的見解，讓讀者對艾娃在譴責與同情之間擺盪。故事接近尾聲時出現懾人心魄的驚悚、扣人心弦的領悟，...(展开全部)

'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' Oscar Wilde More than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivity and demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms, and a permanent busyness pervades even our quietest moments. Little wonder so many of us are burning out. In a culture that tacitl...(展开全部)

We live in a culture that demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms. We are exhausted - but we fear pausing, in case we look lazy. In Not Working, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity, arguing that a good life requires freedom from the demand to be perpetually active. Drawing on his pers...(展开全部)

This powerful collection of stories, set in the Northwest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection went on to become one of the most influential pieces of literary...(展开全部)

From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated. For decades, experts have believed that we are at th...(展开全部)

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry </p> Eva never really wanted to be a mother&#8212and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for h...(展开全部)

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry </p> Eva never really wanted to be a mother&#8212and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for h...(展开全部)

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.