In what the General Practitioner called 'this intelligent searching work', the author of "Stigma" and "Asylums" presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance. He shows us exactly how people use such 'fixed props' as houses, clothes, and job situations; how they combine in teams resembling secret societies; and, how ...(展开全部)

A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has employed as a framework the metaphor of theatrical performance. Discussions of social techniques are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.

伦妮·布朗（Renni Browne），美国文学出版界长青树，从事编辑工作超过五十年。她在二十出头就踏入出版界，凭借对文字的敏感度，迅速成为著名文学出版社 William Morrow 的资深编辑。在1980年创办了全美第一家全方位的编辑顾问公司「编辑部」（The Editorial Department），多部畅销作品曾得力于伦妮的修稿服务，如长踞《纽约时报》畅销金榜的雪薇·史蒂文斯《失踪之后》。 戴夫·金（Dave King），知名独立编辑，亦是写作杂志《作家文摘》（Writer’s Digest）特约编辑。经手书稿从悬疑小说、历史小说、青少年小说、爱情小说到个人回忆录都有。目前和老伴住在美国麻州，自耕蔬果，养两只鸡，拥有一片自己的森林，最大愿望是所有他的客户有朝一日都能成为全职作家。

Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories. In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques the...(展开全部)

Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize–winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers ...(展开全部)

The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides information about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every writer from the student to the published author.

The author begins with showing how to solve common problems of writing. He covers: how to recognize common problems of writing, and words and phrases that should be cut; how to shorten cumbersome sentences; how to arrange the elements of pairs, series, and compound subjects and predicates; how to recognize and rectify mismanaged participles; and how to be on the lookout for the...(展开全部)