From Publishers Weekly One of the best known, most torturous examples of fashionable alteration is Chinese foot binding. In Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet, Barnard College history professor Dorothy Ko looks at the making and wearing of lotus shoes, the footwear for women with bound feet. Along the way she discredits some simplistic popular notions about foot binding a...(展开全部)

"In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a ser...(展开全部)

张邦梅，张幼仪的侄孙女。出生于波士顿，毕业哈佛大学东亚研究系，主修中国文学；哥伦比亚大学法律硕士，曾于纽约担任律师

After long afternoons spent with her great-aunt Yu-i, Pang-Mei, a first-generation Chinese-American, paints this unforgettable saga of a woman, born in Shanghai at the turn of the century to a well-to-do family, who continually defied the expectations of her class and culture. ‘In China, a woman is nothing,’ began Yu-i over tea and dumplings. ‘This is the first lesson I w...(展开全部)

Synopsis Laszlo Vass, born in Budapest in 1946, worked in the Hungarian fashion house of Magyar Divatintezet as a clicker, closer, shoemaker, and designer from 1964 until 1969. In 1970, having gained his professional shoemaking qualification he joined a private workshop specializing in hand-made shoes and ladies' boots as assistant chief designer and shoemaker. In 1978 Vass fou...(展开全部)

From the author of Just Keep Buying, a groundbreaking new framework for building wealth Do you feel stuck financially? Are you working more, trying to spend less, yet still not seeing results? If so, the issue isn’t your effort—it’s your approach. This is where The Wealth Ladder comes in. It’s not a get-rich-quick scheme or a one-size-fits-all solution to your money problems. I...(展开全部)

Sandplay utilizes a small tray of wet or dry sand, in which clients create scenes using miniature objects - a non-verbal communication of their internal world. This practical guidebook describes how to create a sandplay therapy room; how to conduct sandplay therapy sessions; how to work with individuals, couples and children; and how to record the creation of a sand world.

Now a decade after the Four Steps to the Epiphany sparked the Lean Startup revolution, comes its sequel… The Startup Owner's Manual. The Manual incorporates 10 years of learning and best practices that have swept the startup world. It incorporates the "Business Model Canvas" as the organizing principle for startup hypotheses, provides separate paths and advice for web/mobile pr...(展开全部)

Now a decade after the Four Steps to the Epiphany sparked the Lean Startup revolution, comes its sequel… The Startup Owner's Manual. The Manual incorporates 10 years of learning and best practices that have swept the startup world. It incorporates the "Business Model Canvas" as the organizing principle for startup hypotheses, provides separate paths and advice for web/mobile pr...(展开全部)

Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she's beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up, semi-employed little sister to straighten up and fly right...(展开全部)