As Lévi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, “signification,” and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Lévi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism.

For her birthday Lily is given a pair of skates, just like the ones that George wanted. He is very jealous, but when he gets his own skates he soon realizes it is much more fun to go skating with Lily.

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Beginning with Aristotle’s accounts of friendship as a political virtue and Montaigne’s famous essay on friendship as a form of...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the stories feature androgynous characters and homosexual romance? Passionate Frien...(展开全部)

Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationship—whic...(展开全部)

Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationshipÑwhic...(展开全部)

作者简介 玛丽莲•亚隆(Marilyn Yalom)，女性主义史学家。斯坦福大学性别研究中心研究员。1991年获得法国学术教育最高荣誉“学术界棕榈叶勋章”。其大量学术著作已被翻译成二十种语言出版。 特雷莎•多诺万•布朗 (Theresa Donovan Brown)，小说与非小说类的获奖作者，在斯坦福大学研究创意写作 。 译者简介 张宇 苏州大学文学博士，嘉兴学院文法学院副教授。学人、译者和编剧。先后翻译出版《最后的礼物：与危重病人想出的创造性模式》《象语者》《隔壁的知更鸟：与哈珀•李一起生活》等多部作品。 邬明晶 英语语言文学硕士，黑龙江工程学院英语教师，副教授，讲授大学英语以及希腊罗马神话课程，业余时间从事翻译工作。

One of the most influential physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking touched the lives of millions. Recalling his nearly two decades as Hawking's collaborator and friends, Leonard Mlodinow brings this complex man into focus in a unique and deeply personal portrayal. We meet Hawking the genius, who pours his mind into uncovering the mysteries of the universe--ultimately formulati...(展开全部)