Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.

Combining fascinating research with revealing commentary from hundreds of women, this groundbreaking book explores the personal and societal reasons women seldom ask for what they need, want, and deserve at home and at work–and shows how they can develop this crucial skill. By neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over half a mill...(展开全部)

Did you know that by neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over a half a million pounds in earnings by the end of her career? Yet, as research reveals, men are four times as likely to ask for higher pay than are women with the same qualifications. In this eye-opening book, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever draw on research in psycho...(展开全部)

Did you know that by neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over a half a million pounds in earnings by the end of her career? Yet, as research reveals, men are four times as likely to ask for higher pay than are women with the same qualifications. In this eye-opening book, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever draw on research in psycho...(展开全部)

Combining fascinating research with revealing commentary from hundreds of women, this groundbreaking book explores the personal and societal reasons women seldom ask for what they need, want, and deserve at home and at work–and shows how they can develop this crucial skill. By neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over half a mill...(展开全部)

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern C...(展开全部)

莫娜‧艾塔哈維 是獲獎作者、社運人士、評論家，也是當代全球女性主義中影響力最大的重要思想領袖。她的第一本書《頭巾與處女膜》（Headscarves and Hymens）引起世界各國對女人和伊斯蘭教的討論。她的文章與專欄刊登在《紐約時報》（New York Times）、《華盛頓郵報》（Washington）、《衛報》（Gardian）、《時代雜誌》（Time）和《紐約雜誌》（New York Magazine）等眾多刊物上。她曾獲得洛克斐勒基金會（The Rockefeller Foundation）的貝拉吉奧中心藝術及文學藝術獎（Bellagio Arts & Literary Arts），目前在紐約與開羅兩地生活。 譯者簡介 聞翊均 專職譯者。現居台南，熱愛文字、動物、電影。擅長文學、科普、運動相關翻譯。andorawen@gmail....(展开全部)

莫娜‧艾塔哈維 是獲獎作者、社運人士、評論家，也是當代全球女性主義中影響力最大的重要思想領袖。她的第一本書《頭巾與處女膜》（Headscarves and Hymens）引起世界各國對女人和伊斯蘭教的討論。她的文章與專欄刊登在《紐約時報》（New York Times）、《華盛頓郵報》（Washington）、《衛報》（Gardian）、《時代雜誌》（Time）和《紐約雜誌》（New York Magazine）等眾多刊物上。她曾獲得洛克斐勒基金會（The Rockefeller Foundation）的貝拉吉奧中心藝術及文學藝術獎（Bellagio Arts & Literary Arts），目前在紐約與開羅兩地生活。 譯者簡介 聞翊均 專職譯者。現居台南，熱愛文字、動物、電影。擅長文學、科普、運動相關翻譯。andorawen@gmail....(展开全部)

弗雷德里克·刘易斯·艾伦，研究美国20世纪前半时期的知名历史学家。曾任《世纪》杂志和《哈珀》杂志主编。 其最为著名的著作就是人们津津乐道的“美利坚帝国成长三部曲”系列：《大繁荣时代》（Only Yesterday）、《大衰退时代》（Since Yesterday）和《大转型时代》（The Big Change ）。此外，他还著有《保罗·R.雷诺兹》、《伟大的摩根》、《万物之灵》、《看美国》等书。