Taking a career break is a conflicted and risky decision for high-achieving professional women. Yet many do so, usually planning, even as they quit, to return to work eventually. But can they? And if so, how? In Opting Back In, Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy revisit women first interviewed a decade earlier in Stone’s book Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home to...(展开全部)

Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition. The expansion of the curatorial field in recent decades has raised questions about exhibition-making itself and the politics of production, display, and distribution. The Curatorial Conundrum looks at the burgeoning field of cu...(展开全部)

'The possibility of being a victim of a crime is ever present on my mind; thinking about it as natural as breathing' - 40-year-old woman. This is a compelling analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyday lives and how that perception controls their behavior. Esther Madriz draws on focus groups and in-depth interviews to show the dama...(展开全部)

Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show--lucidly and invitingly--just what a ...(展开全部)

Like people, buildings change with age, forced to adapt to the needs of current occupations. This provocative examination of buildings that have adapted well, and some that haven't, calls for a dramatic rethinking in the way new buildings are designed, one that allows structures to grow and change easily with the environment. Photos.

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many ecc...(展开全部)

阎连科 1958年出生于河南嵩县田湖，1978年应征入伍，1979年开始写作，1991年毕业于解放军艺术学院文学系，现为中国人民大学文学院教授、香港科技大学冼为坚中国文化客座教授。 曾获第一、二届鲁迅文学奖及第三届老舍文学奖，入围2012年度法国费米娜文学奖短名单、2013年布克国际文学奖短名单；获得第十二届马拉西亚花踪世界华文文学奖、2014年卡夫卡文学奖、2015年日本推特文学奖、2016年第六届世界华文长篇小说奖“红楼梦”奖。 作品已被译为日、韩、越、法、英、德、意、荷、挪威、以色列、西班牙、塞尔维亚等二十多种语言出版。 代表作品 长篇小说 《日光流年》《坚硬如水》《受活》《风雅颂》《炸裂志》 中篇小说 《年月日》《黄金洞》《耙耧天歌》《朝着东南走》 短篇小说 《黑猪毛白猪毛》 散 文 《我与父辈》《田湖的孩子》

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man ...(展开全部)

From the famed author of the bestselling The Second Shift and The Time Bind, a pathbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit world The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces and economic calculations, where the personal, the private, and the emotional hold sway. Yet as Arlie Russell Hochschild shows i...(展开全部)

In "I, Pencil," Leonard E. Read beautifully illustrates the marvelous interconnectivity of the global marketplace in this classic essay told from the viewpoint of a common pencil–an item nearly everyone uses, but no single person can make alone.