"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love . Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for ...(展开全部)

What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In "The Restless Anthropologist", Alma Gottlieb brings together eight eminent scholars to recount the riveting personal and intellectual ...(展开全部)

Yves Saint Laurent is one of the world's most famous designers, who's haute couture collections have deeply marked society and revolutionized the image of women. All About Yves documents the life of this great designer, from his childhood, to the seminal moments of his career, up until his death in 2008. This one-of-a-kind book includes unseen sketches and photographs of Saint ...(展开全部)

「『愛』是什麼？」 每天，世界上都有無數人，對這問題感到好奇，並且，百思不得其解。 侯佩岑（Patty）也一樣。她有好多好多和「愛」有關的問題，想問問身邊的朋友，也有好多想法和感觸，想和人分享。 「LOVE」這本書，就是Patty獻給她的朋友們，一份情人禮物。 Patty在書裡，寫下了她對愛情的看法，和戀愛中的心情點滴。為了尋求對「愛」的解答，她訪問了一些人，從他們的回答中，彷彿觸動也啟發了Patty更多對愛情的想像與期待。Patty最重要的人──媽媽，也將在本書暢談Patty小時不為人知的趣事和糗事，以及母女倆一路相互扶持的心路點滴。 平常就喜歡看電影的Patty，在本書裡首度一嚐「編劇」宿願，親自撰寫腳本和對白，並挑大樑演出紙上電影「In Love」。喜悅、眷戀、牽掛……她只想告訴你：「戀愛中的我，是這樣子的。」 想知道Patty小時候長什麼模樣...(展开全部)

An in-depth look at Saul Leiter's entire body of work.

What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous, a little absurd. Is there one profound and mysterious meaning to life, a single ultimate purpose behind human existence? In What's It All About?, Julian Baggini says no,...(展开全部)

NurtureShock is a revolutionary new perspective on childhood that up-ends a library’s worth of conventional wisdom. Nothing like a parenting manual, NurtureShock gets to the core of how we grow, learn and live. The central premise of this book is that many of modern society’s strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring – because key twists in the science have been...(展开全部)

One of the most influential books about children ever published, NurtureShock offers a revolutionary new perspective on children that upends a library's worth of conventional wisdom. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, the authors demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the scie...(展开全部)

In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do 98% of kids lie? What's the single most important thing that helps infants learn lang...(展开全部)

Collects the renowned psychoanalyst's lectures and writings on problematic relations between men and women known as "guerrilla war" that have been in existence for some six thousand years.