A true story based on Wang's experiences in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, Love in a Small Town is also the author's personal exploration into human nature and sexuality. Written at a time when sex was still a taboo subject in China, the book's real innovation is not its sexual explicitness, but its acknowledgement of sexual love as a powerful force in human li...(展开全部)

The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well...(展开全部)

《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, h...(展开全部)

What is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America’s small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich por...(展开全部)

Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested him-the ability of the image to evoke memories. Small Things in Silence surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into sma...(展开全部)

This is a comprehensive account of the semantics and the implementation of the whole Lisp family of languages, namely Lisp, Scheme and related dialects. It describes 11 interpreters and 2 compilers, including very recent techniques of interpretation and compilation. The book is in two parts. The first starts from a simple evaluation function and enriches it with multiple name s...(展开全部)

“Small Things in Silence” offers a perspective on twenty years in the career of one of Japan’s most important photographers. In the words of Yamamoto himself: “I try to capture moments that no one sees and make a photo from them. When I seen them in print, a new story begins.”

It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but this child has some good advice for a very special friend in need. A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book of the Year It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but it helps to know you're not alone. When you're small in the city, people don't see you, and loud sounds can scare you, and kno...(展开全部)