One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique’s wife is in the midst ...(展开全部)

出生于纽约布鲁克林的威尔·艾斯纳（1917-2005）是世界殿堂级的漫画大师，他自 20 世纪 30 年代美国漫画产业开创以来就一直活跃在这个领域。他创作了《黑鹰》和《森林女王希娜》等作品。1940 年，他创作了漫画《闪灵侠》，这部漫画在《星期日报》连载了十二年，每期 16 页 ，其独特的视角及革新的手法使其创下了单周狂销 500 万份的记录。1978 年，艾斯纳创作了《与神的契约》，他大胆地用文学手法画漫画，开创了一种新的体裁：图像小说。自此，艾斯纳创作了近 20 部著名的图像小说，从而让他成为“图像小说之父”。 1988 年，美国漫画界深具影响力的奖项“艾斯纳奖”以他的名字命名。在他的创作生涯中，他获得了无数荣誉和重量级的奖项，包括由美国国家基金会颁发的犹太文化终身成就奖（2002），同时作为纽约视觉艺术学院的教师，他培养的许多学生也成为业界的中...(展开全部)

A revolutionary novel, "A Contract With God" re-creates the neighbourhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of interwoven stories. Called "a masterpiece" by R. Crumb, "A Life Force" chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics. In "Dropsie Avenue", Eisner traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over ...(展开全部)

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator. In fact, most cities claim to be compiled of neighborhoods, but this strays far from the term's original meaning - a spatial unit that people relate to. Neighborhood seeks to dispel this common misconception by integrating a complex historical record and multidisciplinary literature to produ...(展开全部)

西奥多·C·贝斯特(Theodore C. Bester)，美国斯坦福大学人类学博士，曾先后在康奈尔大学和哥伦比亚大学执教。现为哈佛大学人类学系主任及日本研究中心教授。 贝斯特关于日本社会和文化的著作广博而精深，尤以对当代东京的民族志研究而著名。他曾担任美国人类学学会东亚人类学部及都市人类学部主任。

In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and by the standards that most Americans would apply, they are perhaps far too small, geographically and demographically, to be considered "neighborhoods." Still, to residents of Tokyo and particularly to the residents of any given subsection of the city, they are socially significant and geographically distinguishable divis...(展开全部)

罗伯特·费希尔是康涅狄格大学社工教授，城市和社区研究的负责人，主要领域在社区研究，有多部著作。

帕特里克·莫迪亚诺，法国当代著名作家，2014年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。莫迪亚诺1945年生于巴黎郊外布洛涅—比扬古地区，父亲是犹太金融企业家，母亲是比利时演员。1968年莫迪亚诺在伽利玛出版社出版处女作《星形广场》一举成名。1972年的《环城大道》获法兰西学院小说大奖，1978年的《暗店街》获得龚古尔奖。1996年，莫迪亚诺获得法国国家文学奖。他还分别于2010年和2012年获得法兰西学院奇诺·德尔·杜卡基金会世界奖和奥地利欧洲文学奖这两项终身成就奖。莫迪亚诺的小说常常通过寻找、调查、回忆和探索，将视野转回到从前的岁月，描写“消逝”的过去；也善于运用象征手法，通过某一形象表现出深远的含义。自1968年至今，莫迪亚诺已经出版近三十部小说，在三十多个国家出版。

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary views of society, but by reje...(展开全部)

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary views of society, but by reje...(展开全部)