A powerful ethnographic portrait of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures. Baltimore is a city where promises of progress have revealed themselves to carry lethal costs. In Futures after Progress, anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on Baltimore’s far southern edge, and the uncertainties that l...(展开全部)

A powerful ethnographic portrait of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures. Baltimore is a city where promises of progress have revealed themselves to carry lethal costs. In Futures after Progress, anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on Baltimore’s far southern edge, and the uncertainties that l...(展开全部)

We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is ...(展开全部)

We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is ...(展开全部)

Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. "Living in Hope and History" is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure--an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers...(展开全部)

Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. "Living in Hope and History" is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure--an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers...(展开全部)

In 2010, Chef René Redzepi published Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine, hailed by The Wall Street Journal as "the most important cookbook of the year." Since then, Redzepi has become one of the world's most influential chefs, with his famed restaurant Noma claiming the number one spot at the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards three years in a row. Now Rezepi has created a ...(展开全部)

Robert] Storr's is one of the sharpest minds in American art museums. --The New York Review of Books, [Gerhard Richter is] Europe's most challenging modern painter. --Michael KimmelmanGerhard Richter is widely recognized as one of the most significant painters working today, and he is certainly among the most influential. He has worked in a wide range of manners since the early...(展开全部)

Robert] Storr's is one of the sharpest minds in American art museums. --The New York Review of Books, [Gerhard Richter is] Europe's most challenging modern painter. --Michael KimmelmanGerhard Richter is widely recognized as one of the most significant painters working today, and he is certainly among the most influential. He has worked in a wide range of manners since the early...(展开全部)

L.G.Alexander，世界著名的英语教学权威，曾任欧洲现代语言教学委员会理事。其著作为交际教学法奠定基础，其中一些如NCE和Follow Me已成经典教材。 何其莘博士，现任北京外国语大学副校长、英美文学教授、博士生导师。著有《英国文艺复兴时期文学史》、《英国戏剧选读》和Listen to This等。