【作者简介】 劳拉·贝茨（Laura Bates），英国女性主义作家、活动家，《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书作家，“日常性别歧视项目”创始人，该项目收集了超过20万份关于性别不平等的证词。她的代表作有《厌女国度》《隐秘的角落》等。 劳拉与欧洲委员会和联合国等密切合作，致力于解决性别不平等问题，并因其对性别平等事业的贡献，被授予大英帝国勋章，还被《星期日泰晤士报》等刊物评为年度女性。 【译者简介】 蒋怡，毕业于南京大学外国语学院英语系，获文学博士学位，现任教于江南大学外国语学院英语系，译有《最接近生活的事物》《致命尖端》等。

【作者简介】 劳拉·贝茨（Laura Bates），英国女性主义作家、活动家，《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书作家，“日常性别歧视项目”创始人，该项目收集了超过20万份关于性别不平等的证词。她的代表作有《厌女国度》《隐秘的角落》等。 劳拉与欧洲委员会和联合国等密切合作，致力于解决性别不平等问题，并因其对性别平等事业的贡献，被授予大英帝国勋章，还被《星期日泰晤士报》等刊物评为年度女性。 【译者简介】 蒋怡，毕业于南京大学外国语学院英语系，获文学博士学位，现任教于江南大学外国语学院英语系，译有《最接近生活的事物》《致命尖端》等。

In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion--Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine: "Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don...(展开全部)

David Foster Wallace, who is twenty-four years old, is a 1985 graduate of Amherst College. He is currently studying for a MFA at the university of Arizona in Tucson.(物是人非啊……)

'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as "modern fiction". He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' Zadie Smith ...(展开全部)

The Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis. In this timely and important book, Peter Temin and David Vines argue that our current predicament is a catastrophe rivaled only by the Great Depression. Taking an in-depth look at the history of both, they explain what went wrong and why, and demonstrat...(展开全部)

It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: t...(展开全部)

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

Positioned at the crossroads of the physical and biological sciences, chemistry deals with neither the infinitely small, nor the infinitely large, nor directly with life. So it is sometimes thought of as dull, the way things in the middle often are. But this middle ground is precisely where human beings exist. As Hoffmann shows in his inspired prose, the world observed at its m...(展开全部)

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffman confronts some of the major ethical controversies in chemistry today. Expertly weaving together examples from the worlds of art, literature, and philosophy, Hoffmann illustrates his uniquely accessible dialectic about the creative activity of chemists.</P>