#1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives. Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years...(展开全部)

One of the great novels of the twentieth century, Of Human Bondage tells a fascinating tale of sexual obsession. The story--taking its title from Spinoza’s Ethics: "Of human bondage, or the strength of the emotions"--follows Philip Carey in his search for freedom from the strict, oppressive Christian upbringing he suffered as an orphan in an English vicarage. Philip sets out o...(展开全部)

The author of The Razor's Edge explores the longing for love and freedom in this coming-of-age story';a novel of the utmost importance' (Theodore Dreiser). Born with a clubfoot and orphaned at an ear

One of the great novels of the twentieth century, Of Human Bondage tells a fascinating tale of sexual obsession. The story--taking its title from Spinoza’s Ethics: "Of human bondage, or the strength of the emotions"--follows Philip Carey in his search for freedom from the strict, oppressive Christian upbringing he suffered as an orphan in an English vicarage. Philip sets out o...(展开全部)

Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex. Professor Kathleen Stock surveys the philosophical ideas that led to this point, and closely interrogates each one, from De Beauvoir's statement that, 'One is not bor...(展开全部)

莫娜‧艾塔哈維 是獲獎作者、社運人士、評論家，也是當代全球女性主義中影響力最大的重要思想領袖。她的第一本書《頭巾與處女膜》（Headscarves and Hymens）引起世界各國對女人和伊斯蘭教的討論。她的文章與專欄刊登在《紐約時報》（New York Times）、《華盛頓郵報》（Washington）、《衛報》（Gardian）、《時代雜誌》（Time）和《紐約雜誌》（New York Magazine）等眾多刊物上。她曾獲得洛克斐勒基金會（The Rockefeller Foundation）的貝拉吉奧中心藝術及文學藝術獎（Bellagio Arts & Literary Arts），目前在紐約與開羅兩地生活。 譯者簡介 聞翊均 專職譯者。現居台南，熱愛文字、動物、電影。擅長文學、科普、運動相關翻譯。andorawen@gmail....(展开全部)

Self esteem is what every parent wants their daughter to have. It is her passport to a happier, more fulfilled life. The quiet confidence that self-respect gives will ensure that she can learn, play, love and commmunicate better. As girls grow up, self-esteem comes and goes. Parents can be more helpful if they understand when difficult stages are likely to occur which can make ...(展开全部)

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy , All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place w...(展开全部)

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy , All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place w...(展开全部)

Ever since the ancient greeks sculpted the first kouros, children have been a source of inspiration for some of the world's greatest artists. Whether portraits of their own children, friends, and fami