In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to J...(展开全部)

Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work.

Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work.

You can’t choose your in-laws. One beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws off a mountain – the perfect crime. Or so he thinks. Even though the murders were as carefully choreographed as a play, he did not expect that three teenagers had caught him in the act. But Zhang Dongsheng seriously underestimated the smarts of those three kids. . . Dark, murky and ...(展开全部)

In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to J...(展开全部)

罗伯特·帕特南 1941年生，美国当代最杰出的政治学家，曾担任美国政治学协会主席。哈佛大学马尔金公共政策讲席教授，美国国家科学院院士，2006年荣获政治学界最高奖约翰·斯凯特奖，且为2013年总统颁布的国家人文勋章得主。曾出任肯尼迪政府管理学院院长。目前著书14部，被译为20多种语言，在比较政治、美国政治、国际关系和政治理论领域均做出过卓越的原创贡献。代表作《让民主运转起来》和《独自打保龄》是过去半个世纪引证最多的社会科学著作，在国内学界和思想界也有深远的影响。多年来，他担任过多届美国总统、英国首相、法国总统以及多个国家政府首脑的资深顾问，其学术思想也激发了全球范围内草根社会运动的勃兴。 译者 田 雷 华东师范大学法学院教授，曾任教于重庆大学人文社会科学高等研究院，《雅理译丛》主编。香港中文大学政治学博士（2008年），耶鲁大学法学硕士（2010年...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in—a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. B...(展开全部)

This book is for children aged 9 and up, and their parents, who may or may not have a technical background. This book is tailored around the central idea of introducing electronics as a fun and a curiosity-inducing exercise. This book can act as a bonding exercise between parent and child over a single weekend.

Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Previous generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today’s parents agree to call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing they choose, and approach t...(展开全部)