How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals—revolution, war, and again revolution—that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily li...(展开全部)

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals--revolution, war, and again revolution--that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily ...(展开全部)

A meditation on the big-box superstore, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux. “A dryly charming look at the way the French live now, through the sharp eyes of its most acclaimed chronicler.”—Kirkus Reviews For half a century, French writer Annie Ernaux has restlessly explored stories and subjects often considered unworthy of artistic reflection. In this exquisite meditation,...(展开全部)

Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers. A blind intruder visits a dying man -- and saves his life, with a kiss. A woman receives a phone call from her husband. Her late husband. In the emotional aftermath of h...(展开全部)

In this luminous memoir, an MIT astrophysicist must reinvent herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth. Sara Seager has always been in love with the stars: so many lights in the sky, so much possibility. Now a pioneering planetary scientist, she searches for exoplanets—especially that d...(展开全部)

Donald C. Gause 是纽约州立大学托马斯·沃森工程学院的系统科学教授。他主要从事复杂系统的设计和开发以及大型公司的改革。 Gerald M. Weinberg 是软件领域最著名的专家之一，美国计算机名人堂代表人物，Weinberg & Weinberg 顾问公司的负责人。他精力旺盛、思想活跃，从20世纪70年代开始，总共撰写了30多本书籍和数以百计的论文。在西方国家乃至全球，他拥有大量忠实的读者群，这些“追星族”阅读了温伯格的每本重要著作，甚至建设有专门的组织和网站，讨论和交流大师的重要思想。

Donald C. Gause 是纽约州立大学托马斯·沃森工程学院的系统科学教授。他主要从事复杂系统的设计和开发以及大型公司的改革。 Gerald M. Weinberg 是软件领域最著名的专家之一，美国计算机名人堂代表人物，Weinberg & Weinberg 顾问公司的负责人。他精力旺盛、思想活跃，从20世纪70年代开始，总共撰写了30多本书籍和数以百计的论文。在西方国家乃至全球，他拥有大量忠实的读者群，这些“追星族”阅读了温伯格的每本重要著作，甚至建设有专门的组织和网站，讨论和交流大师的重要思想。

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

Jack and Annie are whisked all the way back to the Ice Age in this compelling Magic Tree House time-travel adventure where they meet woolly mammoths, cave people...and fierce sabertooth tigers!

Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects lef...(展开全部)