A Woman's Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence. Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: “I did it. I left your father.” Suddenly, she was free. This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman’s liberation: of m...(展开全部)

Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris." She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable a...(展开全部)

A Woman’s Story is Annie Ernaux’s "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews). Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who...(展开全部)

Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris." She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable a...(展开全部)

This is the 20th-anniversary edition of team leader Arlene Blum's best-selling account of the history-making 1978 ascent of Annapurna by the American Women's Himalayan Expedition. A classic story in the annals of women's achievements, Annapurna was the first account of mountaineering triumph and tragedy to be told from a woman's perspective. A huge critical and commercial succe...(展开全部)

序─卡罗斯、卡斯塔尼达 塔夏莎、阿贝拉是一个团体的成员，这个团体由三个女人所组成，她们接受了特定的巫士训练，训练她们的巫士们来自于墨西哥，由唐望、马特斯所领导。 我曾经花费大量笔墨描写他对我本人的训练，但是我从未写过塔夏莎、阿贝拉所属的这个团体。这是唐望的所有门徒心照不宣的约定，绝口不提这个团体的事。 二十余年来，我们遵守着这个约定。虽然我们工作与生活的环境非常接近，我们从未彼此交换过我们个人的经验。事实上，我们也从未有机会交换我们的看法，来审视唐望与他的团体巫士到底对我们个别做了什么事。 当唐望还在时，如此的情况是不可变更的。当他与他的团体离开这个世界后，我们继续遵守这个约定，因为我们不想花费能量来检讨先前的约定。我们把自己所有的时间与能量都用来使唐望苦心教导我们的知识产生作用。 唐望教导我们，巫术是一种实际的作法，让...(展开全部)

In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci’s design was rejected: ‘You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will g...(展开全部)

This edited volume, now available in paperback, provides fresh empirical evidence of far reaching transformations of the welfare state globally that have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private domains within the mixed economies of welfare. By investigating the various modes of policy intervention, such as financing and the provision and regulation of social policy,...(展开全部)