A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir 's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rar...(展开全部)

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir 's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rar...(展开全部)

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”―Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary worl...(展开全部)

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to...(展开全部)

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a gl...(展开全部)

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”―Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary worl...(展开全部)

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a gl...(展开全部)

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to...(展开全部)

施瓦茨是精神分析学家、心理治疗师、作家。生于纽约，在洛杉矶长大，于加州大学伯克利分校接受教育，获得物理学与社会学学士学位、基本粒子物理学博士学位。在成为临床医师前，他已从事15年的心理健康研究。著有《爱因斯坦浅介》（Einstein for Beginners）及其他三本书。

施瓦茨是精神分析学家、心理治疗师、作家。生于纽约，在洛杉矶长大，于加州大学伯克利分校接受教育，获得物理学与社会学学士学位、基本粒子物理学博士学位。在成为临床医师前，他已从事15年的心理健康研究。著有《爱因斯坦浅介》（Einstein for Beginners）及其他三本书。