Life can be pretty tricky when you're a teenage girl. New things matter: Clothes. Parties. Boys. Suddenly being liked and being popular don't mean the same thing. Your parents get completely bizarre when the subject of dating comes up. A friend you've had forever stabs you in the back for no good reason. Everybody you know seems to feel free to comment on your constantly ch...(展开全部)

Philip Van Munching sounds like a pretty cool dad. True, he'd rather his daughters steer clear of drugs and alcohol and avoid having sex until after he's dead, but he's well aware of the fact that they're living in the real world. In <i>Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (so they can look up your skirt)</i>, this father of two offers practical advice to teenage girls in a series o...(展开全部)

作者簡介 布魯諾．拉圖（Bruno Latour） 1947年出生於法國知名酒鄉伯恩（Beaune）。哲學是拉圖最初接受的學術訓練，之後於非洲服役期間對人類學產生濃厚興趣，並曾在象牙海岸從事田野工作。1975-1977年間，他在加州的沙克研究所（Salk Institute）進行參與觀察，充分運用民族誌方法。1979年，與社會學家伍爾加（Steve Woolgar）合著《實驗室的生活》（Laboratory Life），乃上述調查的具體成果，也是新興學術領域「科技研究」（STS）的奠基之作。1982年起，拉圖任職於巴黎高等礦冶學院的創新社會學研究中心（CSI）。在CSI他與同僚發展並奠定「行動者網絡理論」（Actor-network Theory）的基礎。在2005年底從CSI轉至巴黎政治大學（Sciences Po.）的組織社會學研究中心（CSO）...(展开全部)

In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is th...(展开全部)

In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is th...(展开全部)

It's granny's birthday, but her little granddaughter wonders why, because of the lines on her face, she looks so worried! But they are simply wrinkles, and grandma is very fond of her lines because they are where she keeps her memories. In this imaginative and charming story, Simona Ciraolo turns the lines from old age into little wrinkles of wonder and memory as a little girl ...(展开全部)

In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet face to face. Goffman’s work, once of the great intellectual achievements of our time, is an endlessly fascinating commentary on how we enact ourselves by our responses to and our rea...(展开全部)

简介：PUT

简介：PUT

In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating. “I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Now I just want to kick him in the balls.”—Larry David If there’s one trait that makes someone well suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch—metaphorically and, occasionally, physically. Fr...(展开全部)