The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward's greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.

What is a family? Grandparents, mom, dad, and kids around a Thanksgiving turkey? An egg mother, a womb mother, a sperm donor, and their mutual child? Two gay men caring for their adopted son? In this provocative essay, a leading American legal historian argues that laws about family are increasingly laws about individuals and their right to make their own, sometimes contentious...(展开全部)

卡洛琳‧艾爾頓（Caroline Elton） 在牛津大學獲得本科學位，之後獲得賓夕法尼亞大學的研究生獎學金，並在倫敦大學學院（UCL）醫學院的學術精神病學系獲得博士學位。她是一名職業心理學家，曾和許多醫生共事。她的第一個角色是在病房、門診和手術室中觀察高級臨床醫生的教學，這是對過時的醫學教育模式提出質疑的舉措之一。後來，她被任命為英國國民健保署「職涯中心」（Careers Unit）負責人，負責支持整個倫敦的實習醫生。她還擔任擴展醫學學位課程的負責人，該課程是英國最大的「擴大參與」（widening participation）醫學學位課程。卡洛琳撰寫了許多文章探討醫生所面臨的問題以及如何提供醫生最好的支持，並經常在英國和國外會議中發表演講。 譯者簡介 林麗雪 臺灣大學政治學系畢業。曾任職國會助理、記者與編輯。喜愛大自然與有生命力的人、事、...(展开全部)

At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and neighbour, she seems to glow with feminine serenity. But when her husband spontaneously decides they should cast off Gramercy Park for Marigold Village retirement home, as a "preemptive strike against hi...(展开全部)

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments―and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are―private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers’ speech, clothing, and ...(展开全部)

One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number probably would be even higher if we recognized most employers for what they are--private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives, on duty and off. We normally think of government as something only the state does, yet many of us are governed far more--and far more obtrusiv...(展开全部)

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments―and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are―private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers’ speech, clothing, and ...(展开全部)

One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number probably would be even higher if we recognized most employers for what they are--private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives, on duty and off. We normally think of government as something only the state does, yet many of us are governed far more--and far more obtrusiv...(展开全部)

At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and neighbor, she seems to glow with feminine serenity. But when her husband spontaneously decides they should cast off Gramercy Park for Marigold Village retirement home as a "preemptive strike against his ...(展开全部)

The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America. 　　Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "...(展开全部)