作者简介： 素德•文卡特斯（SudhirVenkatesh，1966—），美国社会学家，哥伦比亚大学教授。他的主要研究领域为城市犯罪组织、毒品交易及卖淫等地下经济现象，有很多关于美国贫困问题的著述，同时还参与了法国和美国郊区贫困的比较研究项目。他自称“有着发育过度的好奇心和发育不良的恐惧感”，常常不顾环境险恶，深入一线进行田野调查，贡献了精彩绝伦的调查笔记。 文卡特斯的代表性著作是《纽约时报》上榜畅销好书《城中城：社会学家的街头发现》（又译《黑帮老大的一天》）。该书还曾获得《经济学人》杂志颁发的年度最佳图书奖。他的作品经常被《纽约时报》《芝加哥论坛报》《华盛顿邮报》等刊载。 译者简介： 李斌，毕业于南京大学，获社会学硕士学位。2004年起创办网站“社会学吧”。该网站坚持以促进中国社会学发展为宗旨，服务于广大社会学师生和爱好者，目前已经发展为国内较大的...(展开全部)

Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology & the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University in the City of New York. He served as a Senior Advisor to the Department of Justice from 2009-2012.

TALES FROM THE INNER CITY is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strangely moving, almost numinous. And when the reader comes to the artwork, it's like walking into an amazing room, and then throwing open a curtain to see a brilliant scene that makes you understand and appreciate everything you've encountered in a deeper way.

"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground , ...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In...(展开全部)

"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground , ...(展开全部)

Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman’s life from childhood home, to the first love that she will never forget, to the creation of the idea of herself that she can grow old with and the home that she can grow old in. Walden’s follow up to the lyrical I Love This Part is a poetic exploration of the process of growing older; the journey t...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no major study of the impact of these social networking sites upon the lives of their users. This book demonstrat...(展开全部)