John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places , he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the nature of 'locality', the significance of 'economic restructuring', and the concep...(展开全部)

John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places , he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of society', the nature of locality', the significance of economic restructuring', and the concept o...(展开全部)

What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are questions for the study of religion. In eleven essays exploring soap and office cubicles, Britney Spears and the Kardashians, corporate culture and Goldman Sachs, Lofton shows the concep...(展开全部)

“An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though weÂ’re laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earthÂ’s surface.” —Bill McKibben Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archip...(展开全部)

凯芮•妮•道欷缇生于北爱尔兰的德里，当时是北爱问题的高峰期，她在一幢斑驳破旧的老房子里长大，房子处在城镇最混乱的地带。但对她和其他许多家庭而言，那里并没有什么平静的地带。她父母中的一方是天主教徒，另一方则是新教徒。在一年中他们两次被赶出家门，而在她11岁的时候一枚自制的汽油炸弹从她卧室的窗口被扔了进来。恐怖主义者充斥着城市的每一个角落，而对像凯芮家这样身处那身份裂缝中的家庭而言，更是无处可逃。 在《稀薄之地》这部揉合回忆录、历史及自然的作品中，凯芮将带读者探索大自然是如何让她保持神智清晰、帮助她从伤痛中痊愈，我们也可以在她的故事里看见兼具暴力与贫穷、希望与美的环境中，也能看见有时人们试图建立并稳住自己的城墙，却又允许恐惧和暴力在里头再次肆虐。凯芮让我们通过语言和学习重新构建了我们所生活其中的图景，并让我们记住我们不断斗争的土地不仅仅是地图上的线条和住...(展开全部)

The first of the hilarious novels in the campus trilogy, Changing Places is a funny and wise tale of academic ill-manners - David Lodge at his comic best. When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite s...(展开全部)

著者简介 [美] 麦克·巴内特（著）： 美国著名图画书作者，曾在2013年和2015年两度获得凯迪克银奖。作品包括《三角形》《圆形》《正方形》《山姆和大卫去挖洞》《穿毛衣的小镇》等。他的写作风格独特，深受小读者们喜爱，其作品被翻译成30多种语言版本，多次入选《纽约时报》畅销图书排行榜。 [美] 雷娜塔·丽斯卡（绘）： 随时都带着一本素描本，把她的灵感或是插画稿都画在上面。雷娜塔在波兰的华沙长大，而今居住在加拿大的卡尔加里，她的画作反映了她成长过程中的每一段旅途和冒险。她也是《纽约时报》畅销图画书《好安静的书》和《好大声的书》的绘者！ 译者简介 柳漾： 儿童文学工作者,喜欢与书打交道，写书评、做翻译，翻译的图画书有《和朋友一起想办法》《爱打嗝的斑马》《不会唱歌的小鸟》《罗丝的花园》《北极星》《不来梅的音乐家》《玛德琳过圣诞》《动物园》等。

罗伯特·麦克法伦（Robert Macfarlane） 英国作家、学者。剑桥大学文学与环境人文学教授，英国皇家文学学会会员。 他以行走滋养书写，步履不停，笔耕不辍，横跨九年创作出“行走文学三部曲”《念念远山》《荒野之境》《古道》，获得萨默塞特·毛姆文学奖、爱德华·斯坦福旅行文学奖等奖项。近作《深时之旅》获得英国温赖特奖、美国国家户外图书奖，被《纽约时报》《经济学人》《华尔街日报》等近二十家机构评为年度好书。 麦克法伦将当代旅行写作推向新的高度，被文学杂志《格兰塔》前主编誉为“当代最好的行走文学作家”。2013年，他成为最年轻的布克奖评委会主席。 · 王如菲 南京大学英文系硕士、译者、出版从业者，译有《深时之旅》《荒野之境》《生活的代价》。

Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant. --Philadelphia Inquirer In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to...(展开全部)

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the b...(展开全部)