Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her, "Hello Measles!" But in his dream, the girl's father mak...(展开全部)

Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her, "Hello Measles!" But in his dream, the girl's father mak...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 安·奥克利 （Ann Oakley ），英国社会学家、作家、伦敦大学学院社会学和社会政策教授。长期从事性和性别、家务、分娩、身体社会学、女权主义研究。代表作有《看不见的女人：家庭事务社会学》《性、性别和社会》等 2011年，英国社会学协会授予其终身成就奖。牛津大学萨默维尔学院授予其荣誉院士的称号。 ———— ◎译者简介 王瀛晨，南开大学管理学学士；伦敦大学国王学院在读硕士，专业方向新兴经济体与国际发展问题。

◎作者简介 安·奥克利 （Ann Oakley ），英国社会学家、作家、伦敦大学学院社会学和社会政策教授。长期从事性和性别、家务、分娩、身体社会学、女权主义研究。代表作有《看不见的女人：家庭事务社会学》《性、性别和社会》等 2011年，英国社会学协会授予其终身成就奖。牛津大学萨默维尔学院授予其荣誉院士的称号。 ———— ◎译者简介 王瀛晨，南开大学管理学学士；伦敦大学国王学院在读硕士，专业方向新兴经济体与国际发展问题。

Describes a writer's temperament and how to develop a writer's habits, originality, and insight, imitate exemplary works, read critically, and overcome writing difficulties. This guide to becoming a writer was originally published in 1934. It focuses not just on plotting techniques or prose style, but on the process of developing the habits and discipline of a writer, with b...(展开全部)

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives...(展开全部)

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives...(展开全部)

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas" by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange koans and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her g...(展开全部)

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashe...(展开全部)

In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to ...(展开全部)