Queen Mary， University of London

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midweste...(展开全部)

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midweste...(展开全部)

Northern Girls explores the inner lives of a generation of young, rural Chinese women who embark on life-changing journeys in the search of something better. Qian Xiaohong is born into a sleepy village far from China's headlong rush towards development. A scandalous love affair launches the buxom but unworldly sixteen-year-old on a journey to the southern boomtown of Shenzhen. ...(展开全部)

NORTHERN GIRLS tells the story of Qian Xiaohong, a young girl who moves from her rural Hunan countryside home to make a new life in the bustling boomtown of Shenzhen. A beautiful coming of age novel, Northern Girls uncovers the experiences of young women who are a large part of China’s rural-urban population migration, leaving on a search for opportunity. Above all else, Northe...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines address fundamental questions related to the psychology of economic life in human societies - questions that matter for people from every society and every background. Based around vivid examples drawn from field research in China and T...(展开全部)

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer tha...(展开全部)

细数着身边的时装品牌：PRADA、GUCCI、CHANEL、LV、BCBG…… 著名时尚专栏作家、电影编剧周周敏锐地追寻时尚品牌，幽默地记录下他对时尚生活的感受…… 周周是一个国际品牌时装消费者，本书介绍了他多年来的时尚体验。尽管全世界大多数的普通人一辈子的生活都跟世界顶级品牌无关，这些与你无关的东西还是统治着你的品味，不因你的忽视而消亡，因为少部分掌握权力的人离不开世界顶级品。 作者用他对时尚的真诚态度，书写你身边的时尚， 他们正在改变着一个时代的品味，包括服装的品味。

Jackson's Life in Classrooms (1990) is a reprint of a 1968 version with the addition of a new introduction. The introduction is basically a reflection of how the author, who had previously been a quantitative scientist, felt that there was something missing in the information provided by this research and turned to ethnography and more qualitative research.