“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

"Street Corner Society" is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. William Foote Whyte's account of the Italian American slum he called "Cornerville"--Boston's North End--has been the model for urban ethnography for fifty years. By mapping the intricate social worlds of street gangs and "corner boys," Whyte was among the firs...(展开全部)

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, see...(展开全部)

本书收录了俄国作家科尔扎诺夫斯基写于1920年至1940年间的18篇哲学和幻想故事，他以极其讽刺的目光审视了历史、上帝、哲学、苏联的体制以及作家的命运，与他的《未来的回忆》(Memories of the Future)和《尸体的自传》(Autobiography of a Corpse)中的硬密黑暗的故事相比，《不知情的大街》无疑轻松了许多：一条主人已死的裤子飞奔去工作，很快就有了自己的办公室和秘书；一只装满自动补充葡萄酒的古老高脚杯驱动着它的主人进入酒杯；一位催眠师试图把一只苍蝇变成一头大象，结果适得其反；一位哲学家自由漂浮的思想与被印在书上和被埋在书里进行斗争；一个政治家变成了象棋大师，他的灵魂最终被囚禁在棋子里；一只鹦鹉从一战前的奥地利旅行到了苏联，冷眼旁观世间冷暖……

梅芙·宾奇（Maeve Binchy，1940—2012）是出生于爱尔兰都柏林市的知名小说家、剧作家和专刊作者。她年轻时曾短暂从事教学事业，后以记者的身份转战《爱尔兰时报》（TheIrish Time），同时也在小说创作方面取得了巨大成功。她的作品曾跻身纽约时报的“最佳畅销榜”，而她本人也曾受邀参加美国知名电视节目《奥普拉读书俱乐部》（Oprah's Book Club），并在1999 年荣获英国图书奖（British Book Awards）终身成就奖。她的作品被翻译成37 种语言，全球销量累计超过40 万册。

Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centers for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, wh...(展开全部)

A New York Times bestseller about overcoming the profound ills of modern society by a legendary social psychologist, the author of Escape from Freedom. One of Fromm's main interests was to analyze soc

在线阅读本书 Develop a Winning Investment Strategy -- with Expert Advice from "The Nation's #1 Money Manager" Peter Lynch's "invest in what you know" strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies -- a...(展开全部)