In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captur...(展开全部)

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader up to date on its methods, findings and achievements. In over thirty pages of n...(展开全部)

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader up to date on its methods, findings and achievements. In over thirty pages of n...(展开全部)

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader up to date on its methods, findings and achievements. In over thirty pages of n...(展开全部)

Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker , and The New York Review of Books —in which it o...(展开全部)

摩根•福尔克纳（Morgan Falconer），艺术评论家，常驻纽约记者，为Art Review，The New Statementsman，Modern Painters等众多报刊撰写文章。

迈克•拉波特（Mike Rapport），生于美国纽约，在布里斯托大学获得博士学位，师从法国史学者威廉•多伊尔（William Doyle）。曾任教于斯特林大学，2000年被选为英国皇家历史学会成员，现就职于格拉斯哥大学。 拉波特主要研究方向为现代革命，包括1789年法国大革命、英法美革命的比较，曾参与“革命的多米诺骨牌”项目，探讨1848年革命对现代世界的影响。代表作包括：《1848：革命之年》、《法国革命中的民族问题和公民权利》、《拿破仑战争导论》、（牛津通识系列）等。 拉波特学术功底深厚，对历史和生活充满热情，喜爱在城市中漫步，研究历史事件是如何在大街小巷展开的。他充分利用档案及历史参与者的私人记录，其作品不仅翔实地展现了历史的发展，而且描绘出当事者的体验，生动有趣。

摩根•福尔克纳（Morgan Falconer），艺术评论家，常驻纽约记者，为Art Review，The New Statementsman，Modern Painters等众多报刊撰写文章。

"It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker," and here and there around the city ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one hundred and five people are completely ready, each takes a musical instrument and travels to midtown...(展开全部)

"It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker," and here and there around the city ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one hundred and five people are completely ready, each takes a musical instrument and travels to midtown...(展开全部)