Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other - the Pill and high-quality pornography - and its distribution made more efficient by a third technological innovation, online dating. Together, they drive down the cost of real sex, and in turn slow the de...(展开全部)

Already an international literary event, and translated into a dozen languages, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's Metamorphoses directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's reexploration of the fantastic fables we may think we know explodes the entire world of Greek mythology, pie...(展开全部)

罗伯托•卡拉索（Roberto Calasso），1941年出生于意大利佛罗伦萨的一个知识分子家庭，外祖父是佛罗伦萨大学的哲学系教授，叔叔是教育部部长，父母均是学者。得益于良好的出身和家庭教育，卡拉索一直活跃在意大利文化圈，除了母语意大利语之外，他还精通英语、法语、德语、西班牙语、拉丁语和古希腊语。他于上世纪中期加入阿德尔菲（Adelphi）出版社，并于1999年出任该出版社董事长，该出版社引介了库宾、尼采、卡夫卡、瓦尔泽等人进入意大利语世界。作为意大利出版业巨子，他被誉为独一无二的“文学出版规范”。卡拉索不仅是一个优秀的出版人，也是一位作家，著有《K》《文学与众神》等。2021年在米兰去世。

For much of Chinese history, the eunuch stood out as an exceptional figure at the margins of gender categories. Amid the disintegration of the Qing Empire, men and women in China began to understand their differences in terms of modern scientific knowledge. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of ...(展开全部)

For much of Chinese history, the eunuch stood out as an exceptional figure at the margins of gender categories. Amid the disintegration of the Qing Empire, men and women in China began to understand their differences in terms of modern scientific knowledge. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of ...(展开全部)

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial con...(展开全部)

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial con...(展开全部)

This groundbreaking book analyzes marriage and family reform in twentieth-century China. Lisa Tran’s examination of changes in the perception of concubinage explores the subtle, yet very meaningful, shifts in the construction of monogamy in contemporary China. Equally important is her use of court cases to assess how these shifts affected legal and social practice. Tran argues ...(展开全部)

作者：（美）陈美凤（Lisa Tran），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶校区历史学（中国史研究方向）博士。现任加州州立大学富尔顿分校历史系教授，主要研究兴趣为中国的妇女和法律等。 译者：赵珊，中国人民大学法学博士，师从黄宗智教授。现任天津商业大学法学院讲师，国际学刊Rural China执行编辑。主要研究兴趣为历史社会法学和商会史，曾在Modern China、《开放时代》、《东南学术》等国内外学术刊物发表论文。

If men and women are equal, why have males been the dominant sex virtually throughout history? Here, geneticist Moir and BBC- TV writer-producer Jessel argue convincingly that the answer lies in the difference between the male and female brain. Writing with clarity and style, and documenting their data every step of the way, Moir and Jessel explain how the embryonic brain is sh...(展开全部)