Women over the age of 40, as they move towards menopause, usually experience an increasing waistline and multiplying fat cells!no matter how much they exercise. Hormonal changes start to affect your weight when your 30 billion fat cells detect a slightly lower oestrogen reading and come to your aid to produce oestrogen for you. And the fat cells in your waist grow the largest ...(展开全部)

A devastating collection of stories from one of the twentieth century’s finest writers. In the stories that compose this collection, Maeve Brennan writes about the daily lives of three Dublin families. Brennan turns her anatomist’s eye to the resentment, rivalry, and hatred that teem beneath the surface of family life – always doing so, however, with an attention to detail that...(展开全部)

阿德里安•福蒂，伦敦大学巴特雷特建筑学院的建筑史教授，2003年获米沙•布莱克爵士创新设计教育奖。主要兴趣是社会和文化环境中建筑设计的作用。著作还包括：《语言与建筑：现代建筑的词汇》（1986）、《巴西的现代建筑》（合著，2004）、《混凝土与文化：材料的历史》（2012）等。

The twenty-one stories collected herethe very best stories of one of The New Yorker ’s most celebrated writerstrace the patterns of love within three Dublin families. Love between husband and wife, which begins in courtship and laughter, loses all power of expression and then vanishes forever. The natural love of sister for brother and of mother for son is twisted into the rag...(展开全部)

简介：“我可以给你一切你想要的，包括我自己”标题：Affection副标题：恰好是你人设：画家德拉科×私生子哈利背景：麻瓜世界类型：超短文（尽量六千字完结）纯甜/.简介：  哈利在花店偶遇德拉科，了解了对方的身份，故事就此开篇…

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

The credence framework is used by scientists and social scientists in almost all disciplines, including economics and political theory, and it underpins policy choice in healthcare, transport, education, and numerous other areas. It is hard to overestimate its importance. On this framework, credences (or probabilities) are assigned to certain objects--but what objects? The Obje...(展开全部)

Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence in Istanbul is the culmination of decades of omnivorous collecting that seeks to capture the city of Pamuk's youth through everyday objects: The ephemera, bric-a-brac, and clutter that adheres to every life. These particular objects are intimately tied to The Museum of Innocence, Pamuk's novel of lost love, which lends its narrative structure t...(展开全部)

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

Is it cruelty or playfulness to breed a variety of goldfish with dysfunctional bulging eyes? Was it an urge for dominance or benevolence that led ladies of eighteenth-century England to keep finely dressed black boys as their pets? Can we be said to abuse a plant when part of our pleasure lies in twisting its stem into the shape of an animal? This is a provocative book about ...(展开全部)