This definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now translated, updated, and expanded for English readers, this concise chronological narrative is the most authoritative account of Aristotle's life and his Lyceum available in any language. Ga...(展开全部)

Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

An earnestly honest guy who doesn’t even grant pipe dreams to himself, physiologically incapable of letting a single contradiction go, in other words me, got dragged this June to a renowned academy for rich girls, no questions allowed, by the world’s strongest contractor. No matter how you put it, no matter how you spin it, there was probably no point to it. Because the case th...(展开全部)

Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses. In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the th...(展开全部)

You have seen them everyday, they are part of our lives - but have you ever stopped to consider how they were created and what makes them ICONS? For a designer, icons are indespensable. In Part Two of our phenomenally sucessful "Iconongraphy" book, we take a close-up look at the world of icons through the eyes of some of today's most foremost graphic artists from four different...(展开全部)

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, "Dude, You're a Fag" sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes mas...(展开全部)

C．J．帕斯科 加州大學柏克萊分校社會學博士，現為奧勒岡大學社會學系副教授。研究領域為性與性別、教育社會學、社會心理學、酷兒理論、新媒體研究，並參與過由麥克阿瑟基金會資助的「數位青年計畫」（Digital Youth Project）。 研究與教學之外，帕斯科也時常針對青少年議題，如校園霸凌、性騷擾、性別不平等以及LGBTQ等主題舉辦演講。《你這個娘炮》（Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School）是她的第一部著作，出版後榮獲美國教育研究協會（AERA）年度書籍獎，以及美國社會學協會（ASA）性別研究書籍榮譽獎。 譯者簡介 李屹 社會學出身，歡迎社科哲商管等翻譯合作。 譯作：《40%的工作沒意義，為什麼還搶著做？》（商周出版）、《解套》（游擊文化）等。 elek.li@gm...(展开全部)

本書は、法月綸太郎のデビー作「密閉教室」のオリジナル版である。教室にあるべきはずの４８の机と椅子がすべて消え、代りにコピイされた遺書と級友の死体だけが残されていた。しかも教室はガムテープで周到に目張りされ、密室と化していたのだ。―受験校三年の工藤順也は熱狂的な探偵小説の愛好家だ。自殺か他殺か。彼が動くにつれ事件は昏迷度を深め、ついに彼がたどり着いた苦い真実とは…。本格ミステリと青春小説の美しくも哀切なキメラ。