I am glad I am alive to witness these things; giving words to this life of sensations is a relief. Smell the flowers while you can. Close to the Knives is the artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz's extraordinary memoir. Filthy, beautiful, and sharp to the point of piercing, it is both an exploration of the world seen through the eyes of an artist, and a moving portrait...(展开全部)

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays - a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provo...(展开全部)

Sex and food, once celebrated as two of life's great joys, suffer a lot of bad press these days. Genuine epidemics, coupled with monthly findings of new things that are bad for us, have pushed otherwise happy souls into programs of agonizing denial and, in severe instances, abstinence. Thankfully, in this sophisticated defense of pleasure, novelist Allende (The House of the Spi...(展开全部)

Sex and food, once celebrated as two of life's great joys, suffer a lot of bad press these days. Genuine epidemics, coupled with monthly findings of new things that are bad for us, have pushed otherwise happy souls into programs of agonizing denial and, in severe instances, abstinence. Thankfully, in this sophisticated defense of pleasure, novelist Allende (The House of the Spi...(展开全部)

In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, the unexpected apex of a personal journey from small-town South Carolina to prestigious academic appointments and finally public service in Washington’s halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate. The bursting of a housing bubble in 2007 exposed the hidden vulnerabilities of the global financial syste...(展开全部)

In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, the unexpected apex of a personal journey from small-town South Carolina to prestigious academic appointments and finally public service in Washington’s halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate. The bursting of a housing bubble in 2007 exposed the hidden vulnerabilities of the global financial syste...(展开全部)

本·伯南克（Ben S. Bernanke），前美国联邦储备委员会主席。2009年《时代》杂志 “年度风云人物”，连续三年入选福布斯全球人物权势榜前十（2011~2013年），执掌美联储8年，成功带领美国度过大萧条以来最恶劣的经济危机。 2002年被美国总统小布什任命为 美联储理事。2005年6月，担任美国总统经济顾问委员会主席。10月被任命为下任美国联邦储备委员会主席。伯南克是知名的宏观经济学家，主要研究兴趣是货币政策和宏观经济史。他是美国艺术与科学学院院士和计量经济学会会士。曾编著《宏观经济学原理》、《微观经济学原理》等教材。 2014年2月，伯南克加盟布鲁金斯学会，参与经济研究项目，重点关注经济复苏政策。

本·伯南克（Ben S. Bernanke），前美国联邦储备委员会主席。2009年《时代》杂志 “年度风云人物”，连续三年入选福布斯全球人物权势榜前十（2011~2013年），执掌美联储8年，成功带领美国度过大萧条以来最恶劣的经济危机。 2002年被美国总统小布什任命为 美联储理事。2005年6月，担任美国总统经济顾问委员会主席。10月被任命为下任美国联邦储备委员会主席。伯南克是知名的宏观经济学家，主要研究兴趣是货币政策和宏观经济史。他是美国艺术与科学学院院士和计量经济学会会士。曾编著《宏观经济学原理》、《微观经济学原理》等教材。 2014年2月，伯南克加盟布鲁金斯学会，参与经济研究项目，重点关注经济复苏政策。

Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether “bourgeois” and heterosexual women are retrogressive members of the women’s move...(展开全部)

恩古吉•瓦•提安哥（1938— ），肯尼亚小说家、剧作家、政论家。恩古吉是非洲乃至世界文坛上知名度最高的作家之一，也是近年来诺贝尔文学奖的最热门候选人之一。1964年毕业于乌干达马赫雷雷大学，后入英国利兹大学续修文学。1967年回国，在内罗毕大学任教。1977年因抗议当局对英语的强制性教育而被政府逮捕，获释后与家人过着流亡的生活，直到肯尼亚独裁者阿拉普•莫伊下台才终于得以安全回国。