Described by Noam Chomsky as 'a very important book', Guy Standing's The Precariat has achieved cult status as the first account of this emerging class of people, facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. Guy Standing warns that the rapid growth of the precariat is producing instabilities in society. It is a dangerous class b...(展开全部)

First published in 2011 The Precariat is the hugely influential first account of an emerging class of people facing insecurity, moving in and out of precarious work that gives little meaning to their lives. Standing warns that the growth of the precariat is producing instabilities in society. Its internal divisions have led to the villainization of migrants and other vulnerable...(展开全部)

盖伊·斯坦丁（Guy Standing），英国伦敦大学亚非学院经济学家，“基本收入地球网络”（BIEN）联合创始人、现任名誉联合主席。曾任巴斯大学经济安全教授，莫纳什大学劳动经济学教授，世界银行、联合国开发计划署和欧洲委员会等国际组织的顾问。著有《基本收入》等。

中國人一向怕談死，彷彿一談，死神就會立刻降臨在身上。然而「死」卻無時無刻不在我們的四週進行。甚至我們個人，每日不都在朝向死亡前進嗎？偶視鏡裡的白髮從一根、兩根.....到無以數計拔不勝拔；身體從年輕矯健到動不動這裡酸痛那裡酸痛，「老」顯而易見，「死」，我們卻因為不曾見、不可知，而選擇逃避、忽視，往往對於此類的文書也斥之為迷信，危言聳聽而棄如鄙屣，其實我們既不能證明死後世界的存在，同樣也無法證明它不存在。我們若能將這癥結暫時擱置，儘以寬闊的心去汲取有益生活的部分，則開卷有益的說法誠不虛言。 書中的主角白克雷，住在美國的南卡羅萊納州，在1975年9月17日，被閃電擊中，死了之後被送到停屍間，28分鐘後才又甦醒過來，經歷了一般人所沒有的瀕死經驗，從此有了一輩子說不完的故事....。在死亡過程中，他遇見了黑隧道、水晶城，以及與13位光靈在知識殿堂裡分享117...(展开全部)

Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to...(展开全部)

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther s breakdown with such intensity that Esther s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the mov...(展开全部)

The authors describe how 'inequality scripts' shape the hiring and promotion practices of organizations in ways that provide differential opportunities to people based on class, gender, and racial memberships. The authors also illustrate how privileged class members benefit from organizationally-based and perpetuated forms of inequality. The second edition retains its provocati...(展开全部)

The New Class Society provides a fresh, lucid, and compelling exploration of U.S. class structure, social inequities, and the fading American Dream. This third edition extends the author's distributional model of class analysis and class-based power networks model developed in earlier editions. The narrative has been revised and new, recent examples of topics, issues, and event...(展开全部)