In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and ...(展开全部)

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and ...(展开全部)

We are tempted to think of maternal instinct as a quality a woman has or lacks. But the belief that mothers instinctively nurture their offspring--one of the West's most cherished ideals and a view widely accepted even in scientific circles--has become increasingly controversial. Mother Nature presents a radical new way of understanding how mothers act and why, and how this ne...(展开全部)

With eloquent simplicity, Bear Heart, a full-blooded and traditionally trained healer of the Muskogee Creek tribe, shares a lifetime of training. In sections titled "The Cure Lies Within You" and "Learning How To Live," Bear Heart weaves together anecdotes and philosophy to show how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain mental, spiritual and physical health in to...(展开全部)

With eloquent simplicity, Bear Heart, a full-blooded and traditionally trained healer of the Muskogee Creek tribe, shares a lifetime of training. In sections titled "The Cure Lies Within You" and "Learning How To Live," Bear Heart weaves together anecdotes and philosophy to show how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain mental, spiritual and physical health in to...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 安·奥克利 （Ann Oakley ），英国社会学家、作家、伦敦大学学院社会学和社会政策教授。长期从事性和性别、家务、分娩、身体社会学、女权主义研究。代表作有《看不见的女人：家庭事务社会学》《性、性别和社会》等 2011年，英国社会学协会授予其终身成就奖。牛津大学萨默维尔学院授予其荣誉院士的称号。 ———— ◎译者简介 王瀛晨，南开大学管理学学士；伦敦大学国王学院在读硕士，专业方向新兴经济体与国际发展问题。

◎作者简介 安·奥克利 （Ann Oakley ），英国社会学家、作家、伦敦大学学院社会学和社会政策教授。长期从事性和性别、家务、分娩、身体社会学、女权主义研究。代表作有《看不见的女人：家庭事务社会学》《性、性别和社会》等 2011年，英国社会学协会授予其终身成就奖。牛津大学萨默维尔学院授予其荣誉院士的称号。 ———— ◎译者简介 王瀛晨，南开大学管理学学士；伦敦大学国王学院在读硕士，专业方向新兴经济体与国际发展问题。

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345458923/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link">在线阅读本书<br><br>Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage a...(展开全部)

作者簡介 泰絲．格里森 Tess Gerritsen ●《史蒂芬．金談寫作》書單推薦作家，其著作為史蒂芬．金藏書必備 ●出版界競相邀請推薦的驚悚大師 ●國內已引進的《別相信任何人》、《最後理論》、《貝塞尼家的姊妹》、《下流祕密俱樂部》……等書均不約而同邀請泰絲推薦，其地位可見一斑 ●作品已譯成四十國語言，全球銷量高達三千萬冊 ●《出版人週刊》盛讚她為「醫學懸疑天后」（the medical suspense queen） 出生於加州聖地牙哥。母親是第一代華人移民，擁有華裔血統的她從小就喜歡窩在電影院看驚悚片，因而培養出她對黑暗主題的興趣，並反映在她後來撰寫的小說中。 泰絲畢業於名校史丹佛大學，主修人類學。而後繼續深造，最後取得加州大學舊金山分校醫學博士學位，於夏威夷檀香山展開她繁忙的內科醫師生涯。熱愛寫作的她，結婚生子後為了照顧兩個幼兒減少工作量，並...(展开全部)

For millennia, the field of natural history promoted a knowledgeable and unifying view of the world. In contrast, the modern rise of narrow scientific disciplines has promoted a dichotomy between nature and culture on the one hand and between scientific and folk knowledge on the other. Drawing on the fields of anthropology, history, and environmental science, Michael R. Dove ar...(展开全部)