How do people come to need products they never even knew they wanted? How, for example, did indigenous Zimbabweans of the 1940s begin to believe that they required Lifebuoy soap? Offering a glimpse into the intimate workings of modern colonialism and global capitalism, Timothy Burke takes up these questions in Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women, a study of post-World War II commodity cult...(展开全部)

Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero, who suffers fright but rises to vanquish the forces of oppression. Clover, a medievalist, had written extensively on the literature...(展开全部)

Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words. Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness. With a rare combination o...(展开全部)

黛博拉·泰南（Deborah Tannen）是美国著名社会语言学家，目前在乔治城大学任语言学教授，也是该校的6位荣誉终身教授之一。她曾在普林斯顿大学的行为科学高级研究中心担任研究员，并获得该校“麦格劳杰出讲师”头衔。她出版了12部畅销书。

Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words. Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness. With a rare combination o...(展开全部)

黛博拉·泰南（Deborah Tannen）是美国著名社会语言学家，目前在乔治城大学任语言学教授，也是该校的6位荣誉终身教授之一。她曾在普林斯顿大学的行为科学高级研究中心担任研究员，并获得该校“麦格劳杰出讲师”头衔。她出版了12部畅销书。

Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwellian 1984, offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the nineteenth century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society by such change, and society's reaction to that change.Beginning with a remarkable ...(展开全部)

The arrival of the autumn/winter 2001 debut issue of this deluxe fashion bi-annual for men and women forced a redefinition of the parameters of luxury magazine publishing. As a challenging cultural encylopedia of the moment, it celebrated the extremes of contemporary lifestyles and explored the crossover in tastes and interests between the genders.With art direction by Alex Wie...(展开全部)

Shortly after the 1989 publication of "Women Without Men" in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women's sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S. readers to the work of a brilliant Persian writer. With a tone that is stark, and bold, "...(展开全部)

Shortly after the 1989 publication of "Women Without Men" in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women's sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S. readers to the work of a brilliant Persian writer. With a tone that is stark, and bold, "...(展开全部)