A toe-tapper babies will love--the classic Seussian book about opposites: "Wet foot, dry foot. Low foot, high foot..."

"To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk-it is part of being a moral adult." -Susan Sontag In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of the Bugesera, one of the areas most devastated by the Rwandan genocide of April 1994, where an average of ...(展开全部)

"To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk-it is part of being a moral adult." -Susan Sontag In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of the Bugesera, one of the areas most devastated by the Rwandan genocide of April 1994, where an average of ...(展开全部)

100 men bare all in a collection of photographs and interviews about manhood and 'manhood'. These days we are all less bound by gender and traditional roles, but is there more confusion about what being a man means? From veteran to vicar, from porn addict to prostate cancer survivor, men from all walks of life share honest reflections about their bodies, sexuality, relationship...(展开全部)

威廉·加迪斯 ( William Gaddis , 1922-1998 ) 美国后现代派小说先驱者和巨匠，因对美国社会固有矛盾和弊病的关注及及其独特的对后现代主义小说的创新，获得欧美文学界的高度评价，被普遍认为是“最受人尊敬而又最少人阅读的作家之一”。

迈克尔·布雷克1967年以后成为一名学术研究人员，先后在美国、加拿大和英国工作，1977年获得伦敦经济学院博士学位，博士论文题目为《嬉皮士和光头党——中产阶级和工人阶级亚文化的社会学面相》，著有《青年文化社会学和青年亚文化》，主编《人类的性关系：重新定义性政治》，合编过 《激进社会工作》。

关于作者 亨利·A.吉鲁（Henry A Giroux）出生于1943年9月18日，著名社会批评家。美国批判教育学的创始理论家之一，以在公共教学法、文化研究、青年研究、高等教育、媒体研究和批判理论等方面的杰出成果而举世闻名。曾担任中学老师6年，先后在波士顿大学、迈阿密大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学任教。2005年起担任加拿大麦克马斯特大学英语和文化研究系全球电视网讲座教授和 “挖掘真相”董事会成员。吉鲁著述甚丰，有著作50多部，发表学术文章300多篇。著作有：《怀疑社会中的青年》(Palgrave, 2009)、《希望之后的政治：奥巴马及青年、种族和民主的危机》(Paradigm, 2010)、《黑暗之心：反恐战争中的虐童事件》(Paradigm, 2010)、《喧嚣的老鼠：迪斯尼和天真的终结》(与格蕾斯·帕洛克［Grace Pollock］合著, Row...(展开全部)

Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young peo...(展开全部)

Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young peo...(展开全部)

“Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it.” So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one. But we are fortunate in our guide: drawing on his immense kn...(展开全部)