A spectacular display of this key European writer`s early work This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters & masterfully illustrates Calvino`s unique perspective & narrative gifts. As well as the thirteen tales from his Difficult Loves collection this volume also

Includes:: Smog & A Plunge into Real Estate.

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Difficult Personalities is a reassuring guide to help us deal with the difficult personalities we encounter daily, as well as with our own. It offers strategies such as anger & conflict management, means of achieving empathy, optimism & assertion, & how to make decisions about difficult relationships. The authors discuss ways to cope with frustrating, confusing & damaging personalities. They also identify the `successful` sociopaths. These can be charming, often highly successful people who are serial liars with no conscience. They can `con` everyone they meet & do much damage
- until those around them realise there is a pattern. Difficult Personalities explains how to identify those patterns & shows that these `con artists` or `chameleons` are more common than we may think.
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When the bitter conflict of the Second World War drew to a close, Britain quietly busied herself with getting back to normal. As the men returned from the battlefields of Europe, wartime airfields were deserted, pillboxes guarding strategic Stop Lines were abandoned to nature, & jetties for the convoy escorts were left to rot. Their ghosts linger still, criss-crossing the landscape, & much can be learned from their excavation & examination. In Dig WW2 Dan Snow takes us on a journey through the Allied Battle for Europe, unearthing a Spitfire buried in the Donegal peat bog, joining a team diving on a tank graveyard off Malin Head, & venturing into a sealed bunker on a D-Day beach. Jean Hood delves more deeply into the stories he uncovers, & explores the themes raised in the TV series to reveal the neglected, forgotten & secretive accounts of the war: Britain`s relationship with `neutral` Ireland & America, the programme of `starfish sites`, & the mystery of the launch ramps pointing at London. Some stories are intensely personal, & others simply celebrate British eccentricity & the art of invention. The result is a thoroughly engrossing book that takes you to the Liri Valley & Juno Beach, Lough Erne & a Somerset cemetery. With an end section on how we can all get involved & interact with our wartime history, it will awaken the military archaeologist in all of us. ...

Digger is the story of a foreigner arriving unannounced & ill-equipped in a mining town that boomed & died before the Great War began, a town whose sole heirs are eight buildings, 13 people & a pub. All around is ruin, mining waste, waterless scrub... & the world's purest gold. Anderson spins a break-neck account of adventure & adversity as he tries to join the remarkable band of men who detect metal for a living. Ex-truckie Ron snarls about bastard, gold-filching tourists; veteran treasure hunter Lazy Les drawls bar room advice while strumming air guitar with AC/DC; & pub owner Kevin quietly surveys all through a haze of cigarillo smoke. Digging between the abandoned shafts, Anderson unearths superstitions & secrets, as well as stories of the original desert diggers who struck as much misery as they did gold. But ultimately he sinks deep into a small town's psyche &
- risking his relationship & his self-respect
- down to the bedrock of an age-old obsession.

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Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. Every year, on the anniversary of ` Arrival Day` their two extended families celebrate together, with more & more elaborately competitive parties, as little Susan & Jin-ho take roots & become American. Full of achingly hilarious moments & toe-curling misunderstandings, Digging to America is a novel about belonging & otherness, pride & prejudice, young love & unexpected old love, families & the impossibility of ever getting it right... ...

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As the Internet expands, we assume that our ability to communicate with others, our social connections, increase likewise. In Digital Cosmopolitans, Ethan Zuckerman draws on current trends & the latest research to show us how this hasn`t always been the case-and how we can use the Internet to create a more truly connected world. ...

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