From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope. We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope. We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and hor...(展开全部)

Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press...(展开全部)

生平 克鲁泡特金出生于莫斯科 ，他的父亲是世袭的鲁里克亲王，母亲是一位将军的女儿，他的母亲博览群书，具有自由思想。 1857年 ，15岁的克鲁泡特金进入圣彼得堡的士官生学校，这个学校是由100多个贵族子弟组成，是一种军事学校，受命于皇宫。他在这里一直待到 1862年 ，这个期间，他读了大量的书，尤其是法国历史和百科全书，他开始对俄国农民的现状感兴趣，受到自由革命的文学影响很大。 1862毕业后他要到部队服役，士官生学校的学生有自己选择具体部队的权力，他选择去西伯利亚哥萨克团，作为赤塔省长的副官，后来又成为驻 伊尔库斯克的东西伯利亚省长的哥萨克事务助理。1864年，克鲁泡特金被任命对中国满州地形进行考察，他的考察一直深入到黑龙江和松花江流域。1867年他离开部队回到圣彼得堡，进入圣彼得堡大学，成为俄国地理学会地理分会的秘书， 1873...(展开全部)

芭芭拉．艾倫瑞克（Barbara Ehrenreich），1941年生，洛克菲勒大學細胞生物學博士，《時代雜誌》專欄作家，作品也常出現在《哈潑》、《國家》、《新共和》等重要刊物，是相當活躍的女性主義者與民主社會主義者。她出身於礦工家庭，讀大學時受到反戰運動啟蒙，於是放棄教職，投入寫作與社會運動，特別關注社會底層。她至今已出版近二十本著作，包括《紐約時報》暢銷榜作品《我在底層的生活》、《M型社會白領的新試煉》、《失控的正向思考》、《嘉年華的誕生》。 譯者簡介 林家瑄，畢業於清大外語研究所，現為期刊編輯，並從事多年翻譯工作。譯有《兩位嚴肅的女人》（行人出版社，2007）、《我在底層的生活》（左岸文化，2010）等專書及文章。

芭芭拉．艾倫瑞克（Barbara Ehrenreich），1941年生，洛克菲勒大學細胞生物學博士，《時代雜誌》專欄作家，作品也常出現在《哈潑》、《國家》、《新共和》等重要刊物，是相當活躍的女性主義者與民主社會主義者。她出身於礦工家庭，讀大學時受到反戰運動啟蒙，於是放棄教職，投入寫作與社會運動，特別關注社會底層。她至今已出版近二十本著作，包括《紐約時報》暢銷榜作品《我在底層的生活》、《M型社會白領的新試煉》、《失控的正向思考》、《嘉年華的誕生》。 譯者簡介 林家瑄，畢業於清大外語研究所，現為期刊編輯，並從事多年翻譯工作。譯有《兩位嚴肅的女人》（行人出版社，2007）、《我在底層的生活》（左岸文化，2010）等專書及文章。

Like Edward Tenner’s Why Things Bite Back: The Revenge of Unintended Consequences (1996), this engaging book explores the unforeseen (and sometimes unwanted) side effects of our inventive natures. We usually use the word noise as a pejorative, a term denoting unwanted sound: somebody’s loud music, a blaring car alarm, the din from a nearby airport. But, as Keizer points out, no...(展开全部)

Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in ...(展开全部)

Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasin...(展开全部)

If the fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women (who would not ordinarily look twice at Will) were willing to date him, then Will had it made. Inventing a son got him into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son -- a twelve-year-old with a lot to teach Will about being a grown up.