艾丽丝•门罗（Alice Munro，1931— ） 加拿大女作家，当代短篇小说大师，2013年诺贝尔文学奖得主。少女时代即开始写作，37岁时出版第一部作品。她一生专注于中短篇小说创作，讲述小地方普通人特别是女性隐含悲剧的平常生活，以细腻透彻又波澜不惊的话语，洞见人性的幽微处。

艾丽丝•门罗（Alice Munro，1931— ） 加拿大女作家，当代短篇小说大师，2013年诺贝尔文学奖得主。少女时代即开始写作，37岁时出版第一部作品。她一生专注于中短篇小说创作，讲述小地方普通人特别是女性隐含悲剧的平常生活，以细腻透彻又波澜不惊的话语，洞见人性的幽微处。

The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman --is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family fr...(展开全部)

The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman --is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family fr...(展开全部)

Bestselling journalist Orenstein follows up Cinderella Ate My Daughter with a look at what happens when the little princess hits puberty. The result is an eye-opening, sometimes horrifying look at sex for today’s girls and young adults. Through frank interviews, research, and school visits, Orenstein reveals that, on average, young women are engaging in sexual contact earlier t...(展开全部)

艾力克‧康弗（Alex Comfort） （1920～2000）出生於英國倫敦，是性學研究的先驅者之一，也是位多才多藝的作家，出版了五十多本著作以及多項科學論文，但最為人熟知的還是《性愛聖經》。 康弗一生涉獵極廣，除了身為醫師、生物學家，也是積極的社會評論家，積極的和平運動者，曾協助推動卸除核能活動，信奉無政府主義，還曾因此入獄，與哲學家羅素（Bertrand Russell）被關在同一間囚室。 康弗在醫學界的成就十分卓越，他是抗老化研究的先鋒，曾領導倫敦大學的老化現象研究、擔任史丹佛大學神經醫學部講師與洛杉磯大學神經精神醫學中心客座教授，也是美國精神醫學協會會員。康弗於2000年三月去世，享年八十。 蘇珊‧薇蓮（Susan Quilliam） 英國性學家、人際關係心理學家、兩性作家。並於網路、報章雜誌、廣播節目開設性愛諮商專欄。著有《新性愛聖經》、...(展开全部)

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Ma...(展开全部)

乔治・瓦萨里（Giolgi Vasarl，1511一1574），意大利作家、画家和建筑师。瓦萨里生于阿雷佐。自幼学习艺术，后赴佛罗伦萨，在安德烈亚・德尔・萨尔托的作坊里干活，受到梅迪奇家族的保护。瓦萨里遗世的主要绘画作品，是佛罗伦萨老宫和罗马梵蒂冈宫内的壁画。作为建筑师，瓦萨里是同时代伟大的米开朗琪罗的追随者。他设计的重要建筑有佛罗伦萨乌菲齐宫（现为博物馆）、比萨和阿雷佐的若干宫殿和教堂。但是，他对艺术史的主要贡献是他的意大利文艺复兴时期重要艺术家的传记。

In this thought-provoking book, acclaimed cultural critic and professor of literature Richard Ohmann and noted critical scholar and pedagogue Ira Shor challenge the widely accepted notion of the "college premium": the economic advantage associated with obtaining a college degree. The authors show how the idea of a college premium is often merely a myth that furthers the commerc...(展开全部)