This is reissue of Michael Jackson's second book, first published in 1992. 'People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song. So, I stay in the moment and listen' - Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009). "Dancing the Dream" is one man's hauntingly beautiful, provocatively person...(展开全部)

Dancing in the Streets explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Drawing on a wealth of history and anthropology, Barbara Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. From the earli...(展开全部)

芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克（Barbara Ehrenreich），美国畅销书女作家。 1941年生，洛克菲勒大学细胞生物学博士，女性主义者、民主社会主义者和政治活动家。专栏作家，作品常出现在《哈泼》《国家》《新共和》等重要刊物中。 她出身底层，父亲是矿工，前夫是卡车司机，因此特 别 关注美国底层社会的生活。至今已出版21本著作，代表作有《纽约时报》畅销榜作品《M型社会白领的新试炼》《街头的狂欢》《我在底层的生活》《失控的正向思考》等。

芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克（Barbara Ehrenreich），美国畅销书女作家。 1941年生，洛克菲勒大学细胞生物学博士，女性主义者、民主社会主义者和政治活动家。专栏作家，作品常出现在《哈泼》《国家》《新共和》等重要刊物中。 她出身底层，父亲是矿工，前夫是卡车司机，因此特 别 关注美国底层社会的生活。至今已出版21本著作，代表作有《纽约时报》畅销榜作品《M型社会白领的新试炼》《街头的狂欢》《我在底层的生活》《失控的正向思考》等。

Dancing in the Streets explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Drawing on a wealth of history and anthropology, Barbara Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. From the earli...(展开全部)

Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events 'Full of lively stories ... leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' Economist Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where sno...(展开全部)

Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events 'Full of lively stories ... leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' Economist Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where sno...(展开全部)

It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man , Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving s...(展开全部)

It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. These are the people at the heart of Amity Shlaes's insightful and inspiring history of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. </p> In The Forgotten Man, Am...(展开全部)

In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today.