The Mask of Sanity is a book written by Hervey Cleckley, M.D., first published in 1941, describing the clinical interviews of Cleckley with incarcerated psychopaths. It is considered a seminal work and the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the 20th century. The basic elements of psychopathy outlined by Cleckley are still relevant today.[1] The title refers...(展开全部)

Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his ...(展开全部)

It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who fo...(展开全部)

It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who fo...(展开全部)

安东尼奥·葛兰西(Antonio Gramsci, 1891年1月23日-1937年4月27日)、意大利共产主义思想家、意大利共产党创始者之一。 葛兰西生于意大利撒丁岛一个小职员家庭，家境贫寒，靠勤工和奖学金读完都灵大学。1913年他加入意大利社会党。1921年1月2 1日葛兰西带领陶里亚蒂、路易吉·隆哥等人，与阿梅迪奥·波迪加为首的社会党左派联合组建了意大利共产党（PCI）。 1922年5月，葛兰西作为意共代表在莫斯科当选为共产国际执委会书记处书记。1924年被共产国际任命为意共总书记，他取道维也纳回国，召开里昂会议，在罗马创办《团结报》，反对墨索里尼的国家法西斯党。1926年10月墨索里尼宣布取缔意共，又不顾葛兰西的国会议员身份，下令逮捕并判二十年徒刑。自1929年起，葛兰西获准在狱中写作。他写下32本《狱中札记》，这是意大利现代思想史上的重要著...(展开全部)

This book examines "the great contraction" of 2007 - 2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in the early 1980s. This new phase of capitalism greatly enriched the top 5 percent of Americans, including capitalists and financial managers, but at a significant cost to the country as a whole. Declining domestic investment in manufacturing, unsustainable h...(展开全部)

French economists Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy proceed from the somewhat heterodox proposition that ruling ideas arise not from their persuasive power or inner logic but from the interest of ruling groups...Duménil and Lévy move directly to the social and political history that led us to this turn, the underlying situation in which such intellectually bankrupt ideas could ...(展开全部)

The theory of crisis has always played a central role within Marxism, and yet has been one of its weakest elements. Simon Clarke's important new book provides the first systematic account of Marx's own writings on crisis, examining the theory within the context of Marx's critique of political economy and of the dynamics of capitalism. The book concentrates on the scientific int...(展开全部)