Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter. While the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low-wage domestic and service work-primarily done by wom...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬妮 • 兰德（Stephanie Land），单亲妈妈、清洁工、社会救助对象，同时也是一位专栏作家，文章散见于《纽约时报》《卫报》《华盛顿邮报》等。她自小就想成为作家，曾经每天只有六美金生活费的处境并没有令她放弃追梦。逃离家暴的男友时，身无分文的她只能和九个月大的女儿躲进收容所，并利用助学贷款、社会福利津贴勉强度日。如今，她靠自己的双手为女儿提供了稳定的生活，也实现了作家梦。同时，兰德为底层人发声的脚步依然没有停止，她参与了经济困难报道项目（EconomicHardshipReportingProject），致力于推动针对经济不平等问题的高质量新闻报道，尤其鼓励那些处在挣扎边缘的人参与进来，努力改变自己的命运。

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled...(展开全部)

Most people don't expect you to understand what we're going to tell you in this book. And even if you understand, they don't expect you to care. And even if you care, they don't expect you to do anything about it. And even if you do something about it, they don't expect it to last. We do. – Alex and Brett A generation stands on the brink of a "rebelution." A growing move...(展开全部)

A new moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost, from the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan. For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. If they flee, they will lose al...(展开全部)

Accessible to students with no background in the subject, A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will provides an extensive and up-to-date overview of all the latest views on this central problem of philosophy. Opening with a concise introduction to the history of the problem of free will--and its place in the history of philosophy--the book then turns to contemporary debates and ...(展开全部)

ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS In 1955, with this short story collection, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition that would become synonymous with her name, these stories show O'Connor's unique, grotesque view of life-- infused with relig...(展开全部)

ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS In 1955, with this short story collection, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition that would become synonymous with her name, these stories show O'Connor's unique, grotesque view of life-- infused with relig...(展开全部)

A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misinterprets the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could l...(展开全部)

A National Book Award finalist’s unforgettable account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and work from her home in Beijing writing a book, she quickly realized that childcare and housework would consume the time she needed to wr...(展开全部)