Why sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology. Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to exp...(展开全部)

Why sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology. Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to exp...(展开全部)

“我们如此深爱着自己的孩子，但不知什么原因，他们就是不听我们的。” 《因为爱，所以节制》是美国家庭教育专家布伦达•加里森教育孩子的心得，也是写给天下父母的心灵成长课。她告诉我们：“如果把孩子的生活当作我们自己的生活来处理，那样只会拉大他们和我们之间的距离。” 本书通过不同案例，讲述了父母与青春期孩子相处的方式方法，从孩子和父母两个角度分析了建立亲密关系的必要性，因为亲密关系是一切教育问题的基础。“因为没有了与孩子的融洽关系，我们就什么都没有了，没有了影响力，没有了帮助孩子的途径，也没有办法引领他们走向成长。” 要想与孩子保持密切的关系，做父母的必须真诚，实实在在地关爱孩子，而不要想着怎么搞定他们，更不能担心别人怎么看我们。 如果只能对孩子做一件事，那就是让他们知道：“无论发生什么，亲爱的孩子，我们都爱你。”

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycli...(展开全部)

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycli...(展开全部)

Introducing a brave, new Arab-American voice, an unflinching debut novel that takes us inside a world where few of us have been before: the lives of conservative Arab women living in America. In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mothe...(展开全部)

Introducing a brave, new Arab-American voice, an unflinching debut novel that takes us inside a world where few of us have been before: the lives of conservative Arab women living in America. In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mothe...(展开全部)

With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book—or even steady journal articles—may seem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen proves, it really is possible to write happily and productively in academe. Jensen begins by busting the myth that universities are supportive writi...(展开全部)

In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her landmark work on the status of woman in Western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussi...(展开全部)

Steven Landsburg's writings are living proof that economics need not be "the dismal science." Readers of The Armchair Economist and his columns in Slate magazine know that he can make economics not only fun but fascinating, as he searches for the reasons behind the odd facts we face in our daily lives. In More Sex Is Safer Sex, he brings his witty and razor-sharp analysis to th...(展开全部)