Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of “The Traffic in Women,” an essay that had a galvanizing effect on feminist thinking and theory. In another landmark piece, “Thinking Sex...(展开全部)

Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of “The Traffic in Women,” an essay that had a galvanizing effect on feminist thinking and theory. In another landmark piece, “Thinking Sex...(展开全部)

Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept of photomediations that unites the twenty essays collected here challenges the traditional classification of photography as suspended between art and social practice. Capturing the dynamics of the photographic medium today, it also explores photography's inherent kinship with ot...(展开全部)

'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing ...' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back. "A Capote Reader" contains much of the author's published work: his brilliant and prolific oeuvre of fiction, travel sketches, portraits, reportage and ess...(展开全部)

A manual that conveys the fundamentals of architectonic design while also providing a novel didactic approach to the presentation of course material: individual design steps are illustrated by student projects.

After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. At Knopf, Gottlie...(展开全部)

In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called 'the Casanova of reading', argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. 'We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything', writes Manguel, 'landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create'. Reading o...(展开全部)

In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called 'the Casanova of reading', argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. 'We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything', writes Manguel, 'landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create'. Reading o...(展开全部)

《朗读者》演绎被禁忌的罪责之爱，采用关乎人性的严肃题材，贯穿全书的却是一个让人唏嘘的爱情故事。《朗读者》被列为年度好书口碑之选。同名影片荣膺金球奖，并获奥斯卡五项核心大奖提名。 伟大的爱情是用来唏嘘的。为了守护秘密，你会走多远？ 战后的德国萧条破败，一个15岁的少年在电车上病倒了，他独自下车，行走在滂沱大雨中，最后在一个逼仄的过道里吐得一塌糊涂，一个36岁的陌生女人帮助了他•••••• 3个月后，少年伯格从突如其来的猩红热侵袭中恢复过来，他只是为了去感谢那个曾经在他生病时给予过他帮助的女人，但是，情欲，或者是爱情，在15岁的少年伯格心中渐渐燃烧起来。 电车售票员汉娜总是让伯格为她朗读，《荷马史诗》、《带小狗的女人》、《战争与和平》，在伯格的朗读中，汉娜像个孩子似的时而痛哭，时而大笑，那个夏天，是他们一生中最短暂最快乐并最终影响了后来岁月的时光。 不久...(展开全部)