"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves seri...(展开全部)

温妮斯蒂·马丁博士。于密歇根大学主修人类学，后于耶鲁大学取得比较文学与文化研究博士学位，侧重于人类学、人类学史与精神分析史的研究。长居纽约，有超过二十年的写作与社会研究经验。常在《今日秀》（Today）、《早安美国》（Good Morning America）、CNN、全国公共广播电台（NPR）、NBC News、BBC Newshour、福克斯新闻（Fox News）等媒体探讨亲子教育话题。另著有《Stepmonster》一书。目前与丈夫和两个儿子定居纽约市。

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Commu-nities has changed the way we think about the reason why people live, die and kill in the name of nation-hood. Born in China, Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was e...(展开全部)

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Commu-nities has changed the way we think about the reason why people live, die and kill in the name of nation-hood. Born in China, Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was e...(展开全部)

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others. “This book is a victory on both sides of the page.”—Gloria Steinem “Are you one of us?” a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned psychologist who developed Dialectical...(展开全部)

Does biology condemn the human species to violence and war? Previous studies of animal behavior incline us to answer yes, but the message of this book is considerably more optimistic. Without denying our heritage of aggressive behavior, Frans de Waal describes powerful checks and balances in the makeup of our closest animal relatives, and in so doing he shows that to humans...(展开全部)

This unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, a true modern classic, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling. Separated by the divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the moves. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experience...(展开全部)

A ruthless, ingenious pair of entrepreneurial monsters is preying on the loved ones of those who live outside the law. Though he has no love for drug dealers and poison peddlers, ex-cop-turned-p.i. Matthew Scudder now must help them put two thrill-kill extortionists out of business -- before another drop of innocent blood is spilled.

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers. As one of the best and funnies...(展开全部)