Conversations can be critical and destructive, or they can be generative and productive. This book shows how to guarantee your conversations will help people, organizations, and communities flourish.Conversations are at the core of how we interact.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A GIRL ON THE FRINGE ENTERS THE REALM OF NEW YORK S CHIC， PARTY-HOPPING ELITE?Soon after Bette Robinson quits her horrendous Manhattan banking job like the impulsive girl she s never been， the novelty of walking her four-pound dog around her unglamorous Murray Hill neighborhood wears as thin as the "What are you going to do with your life?" phone calls from he...(展开全部)

Bette is 27, smart, pretty, fun – and bored. When she splits up with her long–term boyfriend, she decides it's time for a change. A chance meeting propels her into a new role as a party planner. Running with the cool Manhattan pack, Bette can hardly believe her luck. Suddenly, the greatest city in the world is her own personal playground and boy, the toys are incredible! But qu...(展开全部)

What happens when a girl on the fringe enters the realm of New York's chic, party-hopping elite? Soon after Bette Robinson quits her horrendous Manhattan banking job like the impulsive girl she's never been, the novelty of walking her four-pound dog around the unglamorous Murray Hill neighborhood wears as thin as the "What are you going to do with your life?" phone calls fr...(展开全部)

Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) journey through the dark side of Japan's consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and fall prey to dangerous webs of underground creditors-so dangerous, in fact, that murder may be the only way out. A beautiful young woman vanishes, and the det...(展开全部)

Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) journey through the dark side of Japan's consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and fall prey to dangerous webs of underground creditors-so dangerous, in fact, that murder may be the only way out. A beautiful young woman vanishes, and the det...(展开全部)

A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles.On Ju...(展开全部)

A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles.On Ju...(展开全部)

安德鲁·路米斯（Andrew Loomis） 著名美国插画家、作家、美术教育家。他曾就读于美国艺术学生联盟，19岁时师从乔治·伯里曼学习绘画，随后发展并且延伸了乔治·伯里曼的素描绘画体系，以独特的视角撰写了多本简单易懂的经典绘画教程，对当代素描教育产生了巨大影响。此外，他还是漫威、DC众多画师的启蒙导师，影响广泛而深远。 路米斯认为：好素描必须具有说服力和感染力。因此他从绘画原理方面训练读者，使之创作出“真实的”艺术作品。各绘画技法环节，他都主张作品应尽可能源于观察、实景写生和模特动态。正是由于其独特、着实有效的艺术理念，在他去世后很长一段时间，其绘画风格仍继续影响这一大批艺术家。