In an advanced industrial society like the contemporary U. S., where an array of legal, political, institutional, and economic processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality persist? Are there general social processes through which gender as a principle of social inequality manages to rewrite itself into new forms of social and economic organization? Framed...(展开全部)

After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, "The" "Killer Angels," remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published. This handsome new hardcover edition introduces a whole new generation to Shaara's masterpiece-and offers readers everywhere a literary keepsake for years ...(展开全部)

"Refugee", I said, pointing at my chest. "Asylum". When Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport late one afternoon, he has a badly faked passport and exhibits no knowledge of English beyond these two words. He was once a furniture shop owner, a husband, and a father. Now he has arrived in England seeking asylum from his native Zanzibar, using silence and claiming ignorance as his...(展开全部)

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protect...(展开全部)

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protect...(展开全部)

The Elephant is a collection of devastating satirical sketches by a Polish writer, and it has been called everything from "a short marvel" to "a brilliant literary coup." Mrozek takes deadly aim at the bureaucrats in his own society and, with buoyant and delicious fantasy, makes the absurd seem real and the real absurd. More than a political commentator, as all good satirists h...(展开全部)

安·沃尔伯特·伯吉斯 Ann Wolbert Burgess 犯罪心理学家，波士顿学院精神护理教授，性暴力与强奸受害者心理创伤研究先驱。1972年，通过历时一年，与年龄3至73岁不等，共146名强奸受害者的深度对谈，伯吉斯和同事提出了“强奸创伤综合征”的概念，全面论述了受害者遭受的心理创伤。这项开创性的研究对执法部门、医疗机构以及司法系统应对性犯罪的方式和理念产生了革命性的影响。20世纪70年代，伯吉斯接受美国联邦调查局的邀请，先是作为犯罪心理学顾问和训练课导师为探员授课，之后将系统、科学的研究方法引入联邦调查局新成立的行为科学调查组，通过分析罪犯和受害者的心理、行为以及个人特点，开创现代犯罪侧写方法，破获多起轰动全美的重案、悬案，也使犯罪侧写师这个群体赢得了“心灵猎人”的称号。 因为在犯罪心理、精神护理等领域的贡献，伯吉斯获得了多项荣誉，包括但不限...(展开全部)