There are few things that unify people across the world better than the game of football. More than just kicking a ball about, football stirs passions beyond rational thought, affecting the mood of a nation or even the fortunes of a government. Since the 1930s various members of Magnum have photographed the world of football, documenting the teams, the supporters and the game, ...(展开全部)

马修•波利 (Matthew Polly)，美国旅行作家。 1992年，21岁的马修前往中国，在河南少林寺学艺两年，拜释永信为师，是少林寺第一位正式的美国弟子。 2003年，他应邀在著名的在线杂志Slate.com上撰写一系列有关中国的旅行文章。2007年，马修的回忆录American Shaolin 在美国出版。2011年，他出版了另一部非虚构作品Tapped Out，记录了他受训两年并最终成为一位综合格斗师（MMA）的经历。目前，他正在撰写一部关于李小龙的书。

A lavishly illustrated revised edition of the ’70s cult book, updated by the author and with a bold new design and contemporary images. Before Franklin Foer, Bill Bryson, and Simon Kuper wrote about soccer, best-selling author and highly respected academic Desmond Morris became a director of a soccer club in order to properly analyze the world’s most popular sport. In this reve...(展开全部)

A National Book Award finalist's devastating account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers, a compromise that leads her to examine the underbelly of cheap domestic labor--and to realize that the work of the household is where gender inequality begins When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspond...(展开全部)

In the past 25 years, no one has been more instrumental than Catharine MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice". This collection brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, definin...(展开全部)

Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle―and not so subtle―strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers wi...(展开全部)

Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.

By the author of The Female Man--a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write.