The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well...(展开全部)

A true story based on Wang's experiences in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, Love in a Small Town is also the author's personal exploration into human nature and sexuality. Written at a time when sex was still a taboo subject in China, the book's real innovation is not its sexual explicitness, but its acknowledgement of sexual love as a powerful force in human li...(展开全部)

The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well...(展开全部)

《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, h...(展开全部)

More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have chosen to join the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to better paying jobs, more convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differently. In Small-Town Ameri...(展开全部)

罗伯特·伍斯诺（Robert Wuthnow），美国著名社会学家，普林斯顿大学教授和社会学系主任，宗教研究中心主任，美国艺术与科学院院士，著述丰硕且关注社会问题，享有崇高知名度。作品有《小镇美国》、《被遗忘之地：美国农村的衰落与愤怒》（The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America）、《粗野的国家》（Rough Country）、《同情的行为》（Acts of Compassion）等。其中，《同情的行为》曾获普利策奖提名。

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, h...(展开全部)

The dramatic story of Methamphetamine as it comes to the American Heartland-a timely, moving, account of one community's attempt to confront the epidemic and see their way to a brighter future. The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness. Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of Oelwein, Iowa, and tracing the connect...(展开全部)