David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of or...(展开全部)

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of or...(展开全部)

Don Freeman's classic character, Corduroy, is even more popular today then he was when he first came on the scene over thirty years ago. These favorite titles are ready for another generation of children to love.

First impressions count. As that first perception is the most important one in real life, in the competitive world of commerce it has the potential to make or break a brand. Visual identity turns the idea, concept and attitude of brands into visceral visual surroundings that act as primary cues that communicate with the intended audience and consumers — from logos to the manufa...(展开全部)

Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their person...(展开全部)

【家內瘋癲：近世日本的婦女、照護與疾病】 為了抵禦來自美國與歐洲的 #帝國主義 ，19世紀的 #日本 致力於汲取全球最先進的思維與方法。到了1880年代，日本也接受衍伸自西方的精神病學，以及對精神疾病 的看法。首批日本精神病學家聲稱，病患應在專門機構中接受藥物治療，而非禁閉在家中。然而，國家並未施行社會福利政策，讓社會大眾得以負擔並接受新式的醫療服務。家庭──特別是婦女，因此持續負擔照護這些所謂「瘋子」的責任。

In 1980, Christine J. Walley’s world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills—just one example of the vast scale of deindustrialization occurring across the United States. The disruption of this event propelled Walley...(展开全部)

◎美國推理作家協會（MWA）票選「百大推理小說」 ◎英國推理作家協會（CWA）「年度最佳新作」 ◎獨立推理小說書商協會之「本世紀百大最愛推理小說」 ◎榮獲西雅圖時報、洛杉磯時報書評、紐約時報、紐約人雜誌、芝加哥論壇報、舊金山記事報、華盛頓郵報、時代雜誌、出版人週刊，各大媒體一致推崇！ ◎網路家庭國際資訊公司董事長／詹宏志　強力推薦 席捲當代冷硬派推理的黑色新勢力──華特．莫斯里。 一本橫掃全美的偵探小說！ 一九四八年，洛杉磯。易茲．羅林斯自戰場歸來，這名黑人退伍軍官甫遭任職的工廠開除，易茲來到朋友開的酒吧喝酒，正煩惱著抵押貸款的事。這時，一名一身亞麻西裝的白人走進酒吧，開出高額酬勞，請易茲為他尋找一位名叫丹芙妮．夢娜的小姐，據說這位小姐經常會出現在黑人爵士樂的俱樂部裡。 然而，等待著易茲的，卻是充滿敵意的社會、腐敗的警察體系、以及醜惡的人性陷阱…… ...(展开全部)

What if right now, reading these words, you suddenly realized that you were actually dreaming - and that in this domain you could do anything imaginable? That is what it's like to dream lucidly, teaches Stephen LaBerge. In this new book/CD, he teaches his simple, proven methods for becoming fully conscious in the dream state.. with expert instruction gleaned from LaBerge's 20 y...(展开全部)

From Wikipedia: Running in the Family is a fictionalized memoir, written in post-modern style involving aspects of magic realism, by Michael Ondaatje. It deals with his return to his native island of Sri Lanka, also called Ceylon, in the late 1970s. It also deals with his family. Much of the focus falls on his father Mervyn Ondaatje and his scandalous drunken antics. Michael's ...(展开全部)