"Born to Be Good" demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are nasty, brutish and short - we are in fact born to be good. Dacher Keltner investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why we have evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe and compassion that promote ethical action and are the fabric of cooperative societies. By combining stor...(展开全部)

"Born to Be Good" demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are 'nasty, brutish and short' - we are in fact born to be good. Dacher Keltner investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why we have evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe and compassion that promote ethical action and are the fabric of cooperative societies. By combining st...(展开全部)

A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, "American Born Chinese" tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a person...(展开全部)

A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, "American Born Chinese" tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a person...(展开全部)

Jin Wang starts at a new school where he’s the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesn’t want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin just wants to be an all-American boy, because he’s in love with an all-American girl. Danny is an all-American boy: great at basketball, popular with the girls. But his obnoxious Chinese cousin Chin-Kee...(展开全部)

围绕三条线索展开： 美猴王大闹天宫是中国家喻户晓的神话故事，而《美生中国人》展现的是一个新鲜的美国版本，有练功，有复仇，有挑战，有失败，有救赎：美猴王有着与生俱来的王者气魄，精通玄妙的功夫和法术，为猴子猴孙敬仰，是世界上最伟大的猴子。但是他不甘心做只猴子，他大闹天宫，想要成为受人朝拜的天神。 美国的华裔少年王谨，在听妈妈讲完“孟母三迁”的中国古代故事之后，跟随父母从住了9年的旧金山唐人街搬到了纯粹的白人社区。他发现自己是学校里唯一的华裔，受尽了欺负，几乎没有朋友。更糟糕的是，他还爱上了一个白人女孩…… 中国人钦西是美国人眼中刻板的中国佬形象，聪明而粗俗，令人生厌。他每年都会从中国去看望美国的表弟丹尼，扰乱他的生活。而丹尼是一名篮球运动员，学校的风云人物，每年都不得不转学以逃避钦西带来的羞耻。这一年，情况更糟了…… 到最后，三条看似毫不相干的线索神奇地...(展开全部)

https://www.routledge.com/The-Road-Leading-to-the-Market/Weiying/p/book/9781138810242 Since the reform and opening up period, the world has witnessed a transformation within China. This transformation has led millions out of poverty within China and has in recent years seen China as an important and vital engine of economic growth for the rest of the world. While China has made...(展开全部)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is “the most...(展开全部)

Known as the "bible" of theatre history, Brockett and Hildy’s History of the Theatre is the most comprehensive and widely used survey of theatre history in the market. This 40 th Anniversary Edition retains all of the traditional features that have made History of the Theatre the most successful text of its kind, including worldwide coverage, more than 530 pho...(展开全部)

In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and...(展开全部)