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)

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)

Follow the heartbeat of America through towering forests, undulating fields, pulsating metropolises and offbeat oases. Whether day-tripping from the Big Apple s core or dreaming of the California Coast, this definitive, award-winning guide inspires you to go the distance and discover the USA s very best. DISCOVER & DECONSTRUCT - in-depth culture and history sections o...(展开全部)

李查德 Lee Child 1954年生於英國。上高中時，獲得獎學金成為《魔戒》作者托爾金的學弟。之後他曾就讀法學院、在戲院打工，最後進入電視台，展開長達18年的電視人生涯，製作過許多叫好叫座的節目。 40歲那年，李查德在一夕之間失業了，但就像他筆下智勇雙全的傑克．李奇總能化險為夷一樣，他將這個中年危機化為最有利的轉機。酷愛閱讀的他花了6塊美金買了紙筆，寫下「浪人神探」傑克．李奇系列的第一集《地獄藍調》，結果一出版就登上英國週日泰晤士報的暢銷排行榜，在美國更贏得推理小說最高殊榮之一的「安東尼獎」以及「巴瑞獎」最佳處女作，並獲得「麥卡維帝獎」和「黛莉絲獎」的提名。而次年出版的第二集《至死方休》亦榮獲「W.H.史密斯好讀獎」。此後他以一年一本的速度推出續集，每出版必定征服大西洋兩岸各大暢銷排行榜，更風靡了全球43國的讀者。 2004年，李奇系列的第8集《...(展开全部)