The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection. The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better lif...(展开全部)

Hattie the Hen spots danger -- but the goose and the pig and the sheep and the horse and the cow don't seem to care Young children will enjoy happy shivers of anticipation as this cumulative tale builds, and they'll be delighted by the final surprise, when everyone sees that what Hattie has been saying is true

Do individuals construct their own identities in contemporary consumer culture? In this volume, one of the world's leading sociologists questions the idea that individualism is a defining feature of modernity. The Time of Tribes presents a new, truly sociological theory of modern identity. Author Michel Maffesoli contends that the insistence on the end of collective ideals conc...(展开全部)

从恺撒到多米提安，这些统治者的充满色情描写的自传。

This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of an encounter across national cultural boundaries as Habermas takes up the challenge posed by the radical critique of reason in contemporary French postmodernism. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is ...(展开全部)

Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the idea...(展开全部)

杰里·布罗顿，伦敦大学玛丽王后学院文艺复兴研究中心教授，主要著作有《领土交易：现代早期世界的地图绘制》《全球性角度：东西方之间的文艺复兴艺术》（合著）等。

利奥·霍利斯（Leo Hollis），1972年出生于伦敦。曾就读于东安格利亚大学（UEA）学习历史，专攻17世纪史。毕业后回到伦敦，花费了很多时间以行走的方式探索伦敦城，著有两本关于伦敦历史的书籍《伦敦的崛起》《伦敦的石头》，近著为《城市对你大有益》（三联书店即将出版）。他经常在《独立报》《今日历史》《星期日电讯报》《星期日独立报》等报刊上发表文章，并参与BBC、英国第五频道节目的录制。现与妻子和两个孩子生活在伦敦。

In a sweeping narrative, from its mythic origins to the glittering towers of the contemporary financial capital, THE STONES OF LONDON tells the story of twelve London buildings in a kaleidoscopic and unexpected history of one of the world's most enigmatic cities. From the Roman forum to the Gherkin, Regent Street to the East End, the Houses of Parliament to Greenwich Palace, Lo...(展开全部)