The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America. 　　Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "...(展开全部)

The Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120), a vast retrospective series of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen, have always been one of the most widely read of the works which survive from classical antiquity. They were written when Roman imperial power was reaching its height, and are sophisticated examples of a renaissance classicism - linguistic, literary, philosophi...(展开全部)

The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward's greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.

Understanding the experiences of men in U.S. society Edited by two of the field's most prominent researchers, Men's Lives, 9th edition, reflects on the question "What does it mean to be a man in contemporary U.S. society?" Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader uses a social-constructionist view to examine how men construct masculinity within a social and ...(展开全部)

This textis intended as a broad introduction to the many types of inequality– economics, status, political power, sex and gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity– in U.S. society and in a global setting. Gender; Men; Masculinity; Work, Relationships; Sexuality. For anyone interested in understanding men and their roles in society.

From the author of The Last Mughal , an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today. In portraits of people we might otherwise never know William Dalrymple distills his twenty-five years of travel in India to explore the challenges faced by practitioners of traditional forms of faith in c...(展开全部)

William Trevor's astonishing range as a writer--his humor, subtlety, and compassionate grasp of human behavior--is fully demonstrated in these two short novels. In Reading Turgenev, a lonely country girl escapes her loveless marriage in the arms of a bookish young man. In My House in Umbria, a former madam befriends the other survivors of a terrorist bombing with surprising res...(展开全部)

布赖恩·费根教授是世界顶级的考古学家之一，也是国际公认的世界史前研究权威。 他曾在剑桥大学潘布罗克学院学习考古学，先后在撒哈拉以南、赞比亚、东非地区发掘最早的农业遗址或在当地博物馆进行保存古迹的工作，堪称非洲历史跨学科研究的先驱。后担任加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉学院的人类学教授，现为名誉教授。 费根教授撰写了多部畅销教材和大众读物，如《简明考古学导论》《地球上的人们》《尼罗河的劫掠》《洪水、饥馑与帝王：厄尔尼诺和文明兴衰》《大暖化》等，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》，出版了多部有关非洲考古的学术专著，后因其在教育界和考古学界孜孜不倦的努力而获得美国考古学会颁发的首届公共教育奖。