Author:Susan Quilliam
For some people, an argument with a loved one is a catastrophe, a sign that a relationship must surely be over, for others a heated discussion is a way of letting off steam, a way of ensuring that passion is kept alive. But what is 'normal' communication for couples? How can you get past the raised voices or silent disapproval, to listen and understand what is really being said by your partner?
Relationships change over time, and the way we communicate does too. This practical, readable and sometimes humorous book, based on over 60 years of cumulative experience from Relate, the marriage guidance experts, will help couples to break free of old patterns of behaviour and avoid using words as weapons when the going gets tough. It will help encourage upfront discussion rather than resorting to nagging, and will give you the skills you need to understand what your partner is really trying to say to you - to bring discussion rather than confrontation back into your relationships.
Here, for once, is a self-help book that is fascinating rather than bossy...Clearly written, sometimes humorous and practical, this book convincingly demonstrates that it is possible to disagree and not fight, to have differences and not lash out.
—— Mail On SundayEssential reading for anyone who wishes to understand terrorism today. It provides a thoughtful and challenging analysis of a complex issue that affects each and every one of us.
—— Terry Waite, CBEScholarly, readable, practical and positive ... Should be compulsory reading for all American congressmen and British MPs
—— Tony Benn, MPThis book is an awakening
—— Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of After MulticulturalismThis very wise book suggests how we could stop building the anger and hate that generate terrorism and start to solve rather than exacerbate the problem
—— Clare Short MPAn original, stimulating and powerful contribution to how we deal with political violence in the modern world ... needs to be given serious consideration
—— Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MPI should like to underline the importance of the approach described here
—— Alistair Crooke, Founder, Conflict ForumsWe urgently need to engage with those who have felt threatened and then threaten us in turn. We need an enhanced political vocabularly ... Making Terrorism History is part of extending what we have understood as the political in crucial ways. Read it.
—— Susie Orbach, author of Towards Emotional Literacycaptivating ... This is not, though, just a book of ideas. Home in the World can't help but be the work of an intellectual. But, as its title implies, it is the work of an intellectual who acknowledges that ideas grow out of - are imbricated with - phenomena external to the self.
—— Christopher Bray , Tablet[full of] raconteurial energy ... Sen writes with an elegance and wit ... His accounts of his own work are characteristically succinct and fluent ... His evocation of post-war Cambridge and the towering figures of 20th-century economics are affectionate but just. Even more vivid is the picture of his undergraduate days in Calcutta, with its student revolutionaries and generous booksellers. ... It is striking just how much of Sen's own large-hearted liberalism turn out to have been prefigured in the freedoms of his unusual childhood.
Home in the World is the chronicle of an early life well lived and well considered.
—— David Gilmour , Literary ReviewAmartya Sen's memoir Home in the World beautifully conveys the immense, curious charm of his unapologetic high intelligence.
—— Philip Hensher , Spectator Books of the Yeargraceful and hopeful ... Home in the World focuses on Sen's formative years, revealing the roots of his academic interests in his early experiences ... Sen is such a charming and engaging narrator
—— Barbara Spindel , Christian Science MonitorA charming, lively account of Sen's remarkable adolescence
—— Zareer Masani , History TodaySen's gentle memoir shed[s] light on the distant nooks of a long life of distinction. ... There is something of Tagore in the judicious Mr. Sen. He is an un?inching man of science but also insistently humane.
—— Tunku Varadarajan , Wall Street Journalwarmhearted, clear-eyed account of the formative years of his life, a book that reaches from Myanmar to Berkeley ... a testament to just how far, in one life, one man might go into that vast world ... Sen's writing style is even-keeled and gently humorous.
—— Mythili G. Rao , Washington PostPRAISE FOR AMARTYA SEN
With his masterly prose, ease of erudition and ironic humour, Sen is one of the few great world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion
—— Nadine GordimerAmartya Sen is one of the most distinguished minds of our time [who] enjoyably mixes moments of profundity with flashes of mischievous provocation
—— William Dalrymple , New York Review of BooksThe world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or insightful a champion
—— Kofi AnnanAn accessible and exceptional humanitarian
—— Jon Snow , New StatesmanSen is one of the great minds of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We owe him a huge debt
—— Nicholas SternA distinguished inheritor of the tradition of public philosophy and reasoning - Roy, Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru ... if ever there was a global intellectual, it is Sen
—— Sunil Khilnani , Financial Times