Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything. Soon Raphael and his friends Gardo and Rat ar...(展开全部)

Seinfeld as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners The Man of Mode? Friends as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing? Star Wars as an adaptation of Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene? The popular culture that surrounds us in our daily lives bears a striking similarity to some of the great works of literature of...(展开全部)

亚当·明特（Adam Minter）,出生于美国明尼苏达州一个废品经销商家庭，2002年开始进行一系列关于中国新兴的废品回收业的开创性调查报告，受到国际传媒界的认可，2004年获得斯蒂芬·巴尔写作奖。从那时起，美国国家公共广播电台、《华尔街日报》以及英国《金融时报》《卫报》等国际媒体经常邀请他采访和撰稿。2008年他受邀到伦敦皇家地理学会做了对全球废品回收贸易的评论性演讲。目前，他受雇于全球最大的财经资讯公司彭博社。

亚当·明特（Adam Minter）,出生于美国明尼苏达州一个废品经销商家庭，2002年开始进行一系列关于中国新兴的废品回收业的开创性调查报告，受到国际传媒界的认可，2004年获得斯蒂芬·巴尔写作奖。从那时起，美国国家公共广播电台、《华尔街日报》以及英国《金融时报》《卫报》等国际媒体经常邀请他采访和撰稿。2008年他受邀到伦敦皇家地理学会做了对全球废品回收贸易的评论性演讲。目前，他受雇于全球最大的财经资讯公司彭博社。

In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends histroy as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dan...(展开全部)

Nancy Isenberg is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Biography and won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in Nonfiction. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, and writes regularly for Salon.com. Isenberg is t...(展开全部)

Nancy Isenberg is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Biography and won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in Nonfiction. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, and writes regularly for Salon.com. Isenberg is t...(展开全部)

In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends histroy as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dan...(展开全部)