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.

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.

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)

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)

the best book of noofiction to come out of India......Bombay/Mumbai

the best book of noofiction to come out of India......Bombay/Mumbai

What do a suburban mom and her troubled daughter, two recently divorced brothers, a pair of former child stars, born-again Christian newlyweds, and a couple of young millionaires have in common? They have all been selected to compete on Lost and Found, a daring new reality TV show. In teams of two, they will race across the globe--from Egypt to Japan, from Sweden to England--to...(展开全部)

From the rising star of children's picture books comes the magical tale of friendship and loneliness, a boy and a penguin. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row...(展开全部)

From the rising star of children's picture books comes the magical tale of friendship and loneliness, a boy and a penguin. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row...(展开全部)

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the story of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of the role that loss and discovery play in all of our lives. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and su...(展开全部)