Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus , Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the ...(展开全部)

作者 尼尔·波兹曼（Neil Postman，1931—2003），世界著名的媒介文化研究者和批评家，是继麦克卢汉之后世界最重要的媒介文化研究学者之一，他在纽约大学首创了媒介生态学专业。他认为强势媒介能够以一种隐蔽却强大的暗示力量重新定义现实世界，甚至塑造一个时代的文 化精神，人们实际上是生存在媒介所制造的巨大隐喻世界中而不自知，因此发展出了“媒介即隐喻”的理论。波兹曼出版过20余部著作，《娱乐至死》和《童年的消逝》是他的两部代表作，已被译成多种文字出版。 译者 吴燕莛，加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学新闻硕士，现任教于上海外国语大学传媒学院。

After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As Simon and David they make their way to the relocation centre in the city of Novilla, where officialdom treats them politely but not necessarily helpfully. Simon finds a job i...(展开全部)

<STRONG>The Sociology of Childhood</STRONG> is the <STRONG>Second Edition</STRONG> of a text that has been universally acclaimed as the best book on the subject available today. It is the only text that thoroughly covers children and childhood from a sociological perspective. The second edition retains the same quality coverage of social theories of childhood, the consideration...(展开全部)

This new edition of "the only text" that thoroughly covers children and childhood from a sociological perspective includes updated coverage of peer relations, friendship, children s peer cultures, and the social problems experienced by children. Throughout the book, the author s original research and the compelling photographs and vivid illustrations bring the topics to life.

威廉·A．科萨罗是美国印第安纳大学社会学专业讲席教授，1988年曾获得美国总统颁发的杰出教学奖。他主讲《童年社会学》、《当代社会的童年》、《民族志研究方法》等课程，主要研究兴趣是童年社会学、儿童同辈文化、教育社会学和民族志研究方法。他曾先后出版过《人生早期的友谊与同辈文化》（1985年）、《是的，我们是朋友：儿童的文化世界》（2003年）等专著。1983-1984年，他在意大利博洛尼亚做富尔布莱特高级研究人员；2003年在挪威特隆赫姆做富尔布莱特高级专家。他的研究曾经被美国国家公共电台、英国国家广播公司和美国知识、文艺类杂志《纽约客》等著名媒体广泛介绍和报道。

After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As Simon and David they make their way to the relocation centre in the city of Novilla, where officialdom treats them politely but not necessarily helpfully. Simon finds a job i...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)