Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full...(展开全部)

What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again?In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market's ...(展开全部)

What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again?In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market's ...(展开全部)

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? And what kinds of people have sought to reconstruct ...(展开全部)

Alexei Yurchak is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full...(展开全部)

Synopsis A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, awakens in a lane and tries to remember the two-day drinking binge that landed him there. Then, things only get worse. Sammy gets in a fight with some soldiers, lands in jail, and ...(展开全部)

Synopsis A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, awakens in a lane and tries to remember the two-day drinking binge that landed him there. Then, things only get worse. Sammy gets in a fight with some soldiers, lands in jail, and ...(展开全部)

Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the most current and accurate version available of Oates' seminal work.          A novel ab...(展开全部)

乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨（Joyce Carol Oates,1938— ）　1938年6月16日出生在纽约州洛克波特市附近伊利县一个工人家庭，从小寄养在务农的外祖父家，在只有一间教室的学校里上学，过着“非常悲惨的日子”。直到高中时，进布法罗市郊一中学学习，才受到较为正规的教育，并开始爱好文学。1956年，奥茨考入纽约州的锡拉丘兹大学，主修英国文学。期间开始学习写作，曾获得女大学生小说创作比赛一等奖。1960年，她以第一名的成绩毕业于锡拉丘兹大学，一年后，获得威斯康星大学文学硕士学位。1962年入底特律大学任教并进行创作。1967年移居加拿大，1978年回国，当选为美国文学艺术院院士，此后即在普林斯顿大学任驻校作家、客座教授，讲授文学创作。奥茨是一位多产作家，自1963年第一部短篇小说集《北门畔》问世以来，迄今已出版长篇小说28部，短篇小说集17部，诗...(展开全部)