温妮斯蒂·马丁博士。于密歇根大学主修人类学，后于耶鲁大学取得比较文学与文化研究博士学位，侧重于人类学、人类学史与精神分析史的研究。长居纽约，有超过二十年的写作与社会研究经验。常在《今日秀》（Today）、《早安美国》（Good Morning America）、CNN、全国公共广播电台（NPR）、NBC News、BBC Newshour、福克斯新闻（Fox News）等媒体探讨亲子教育话题。另著有《Stepmonster》一书。目前与丈夫和两个儿子定居纽约市。

温妮斯蒂·马丁博士。于密歇根大学主修人类学，后于耶鲁大学取得比较文学与文化研究博士学位，侧重于人类学、人类学史与精神分析史的研究。长居纽约，有超过二十年的写作与社会研究经验。常在《今日秀》（Today）、《早安美国》（Good Morning America）、CNN、全国公共广播电台（NPR）、NBC News、BBC Newshour、福克斯新闻（Fox News）等媒体探讨亲子教育话题。另著有《Stepmonster》一书。目前与丈夫和两个儿子定居纽约市。

"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves seri...(展开全部)

"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla," writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves seri...(展开全部)

Stanford professor Sapolsky, research associate with Kenya's Institute of Primate Research, tells what it's like to spend 20 years studying, and living amidst, a troop of baboons. His main objective is to study the relationship between stress and disease and he reinvents the traditional field research study with this daring memoir. The realities of African field research, the p...(展开全部)

'I had never planned to become a Savannah baboon when I grew up; instead I assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,' writes Robert Sapolsky in this riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming of age in remote Africa. Upon graduating from college, a booksmart and naive Sapolsky leaves the comforts of the Northeastern United States for the very first time, to join a baboon troop...(展开全部)

The philosopher Antonio Negri is one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on class, socialism, and empire have had an enormous influence on contemporary political theory. His political activism and outspoken advocacy for the downtrodden have also placed him at the centre of some of the most dramatic developments in recent Italian history. Story of a Communist—th...(展开全部)

The philosopher Antonio Negri is one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on class, socialism, and empire have had an enormous influence on contemporary political theory. His political activism and outspoken advocacy for the downtrodden have also placed him at the centre of some of the most dramatic developments in recent Italian history. Story of a Communist—th...(展开全部)

A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Elena, born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, finds her passion in the complexity of the English language -- but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s, such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena's home...(展开全部)

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what’s coming—specifically, her own future and her brother’s. Lup...(展开全部)