This is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb in Lofoten, Norway. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old— "You suppose me a very old man," he says, "but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves." The narrator, convinced by the power of the whirlpools he sees in the ocean beyond, is then told of the "old" man's fishing trip with his two brothers a few years ago. Driven by "the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens", their ship was caught in the vortex.

This is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb in Lofoten, Norway. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old— "You suppose me a very old man," he says, "but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves." The narrator, convinced by the power of the whirlpools he sees in the ocean beyond, is then told of the "old" man's fishing trip with his two brothers a few years ago. Driven by "the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens", their ship was caught in the vortex.

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we’ve learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn’t it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a full-blown ...(展开全部)

In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in ...(展开全部)

微依那·达斯（Veena Das） 美国约翰·霍普金斯大学人类学系主任。她的研究方向包括：女权运动、性别研究、宗派暴力、医学人类学、后殖民主义与后结构主义理论等。达斯的处女作《印度种姓和仪式面面观》（Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual，牛 津大学出版社1977年版），探讨了印度种姓制度结构的组成。1995年，达斯获得了瑞士人类学—地理学年会奖章。2000年，她被芝加哥大学聘为名誉教授。 此后，她的研究兴趣转向暴力和社会苦难问题，与哈佛大学的凯博文（Arthur Kleinman）教授等人一起合编了《社会苦难》（Social Suffering，加州大学出版社1998年版）及《暴力与主体性》（Violence and Subjectivity，加州大学出版社2000年版）等书，她本人的专著《重大事件——当代印度分析之人类...(展开全部)

In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in ...(展开全部)

微依那·达斯（Veena Das） 美国约翰·霍普金斯大学人类学系主任。她的研究方向包括：女权运动、性别研究、宗派暴力、医学人类学、后殖民主义与后结构主义理论等。达斯的处女作《印度种姓和仪式面面观》（Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual，牛 津大学出版社1977年版），探讨了印度种姓制度结构的组成。1995年，达斯获得了瑞士人类学—地理学年会奖章。2000年，她被芝加哥大学聘为名誉教授。 此后，她的研究兴趣转向暴力和社会苦难问题，与哈佛大学的凯博文（Arthur Kleinman）教授等人一起合编了《社会苦难》（Social Suffering，加州大学出版社1998年版）及《暴力与主体性》（Violence and Subjectivity，加州大学出版社2000年版）等书，她本人的专著《重大事件——当代印度分析之人类...(展开全部)

Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he turns round to look at men with a clear eye and ask, what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone?

With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers around the world in her novel The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting, layered plot, interwoven with a powerful understanding of human instincts and the damage they can inflict.

This publication is the outcome of the 2018 graduation dissertation of Italian architect Giorgio Azzariti. His research focuses on the Swiss architect Peter Märkli, and is divided across four sections: Journey, Imaginary, Language, and Reality. Märkli’s work does not fall easily into the customary narrative of Swiss architecture at the close of the 20th century, and even less s...(展开全部)