A National Book Award finalist's devastating account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers, a compromise that leads her to examine the underbelly of cheap domestic labor--and to realize that the work of the household is where gender inequality begins When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspond...(展开全部)

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family and neighbours. Nothing is ever the same again for the Gladneys, who learn that fate cares little for duty, that life rarely conforms to expectation, that G...(展开全部)

多纳尔·瑞安 （1976— ） 爱尔兰作家，被誉为“爱尔兰文学新浪潮的王者”，两度入围布克奖。 最早两部长篇小说《旋转的心》《十二月纪事》曾因大胆的写作手法47次被出版商拒绝，最终得到了公正评价：前者斩获都柏林书展十年最佳图书桂冠、爱尔兰图书奖（最佳综合奖和最佳新人奖双料冠军）、欧盟文学奖、《卫报》处女作奖；后者入围爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖、让·莫内欧洲文学奖短名单。 创作生涯常踞巅峰：短篇小说集《太阳斜照》荣膺爱尔兰图书奖最佳短篇小说奖；长篇小说《我们所应知道的一切》入围爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖短名单；《来自静谧的浅海》获让·莫内欧洲文学奖，入围爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖、科斯塔图书奖短名单；《奇花异果》荣获爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖，入围达尔基文学奖短名单；《污岛皇后》再次入围爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖短名单。

We’ve all seen red roses, blue irises, and yellow daffodils. But when we really look closely at a flower, whole new worlds of beauty and intricacy emerge. Using a unique process that far surpasses conventional macro photography, Robert Llewellyn shows us details that few of us have ever seen: the amazing architecture of stamens and pistils; the subtle shadings on a petal; the s...(展开全部)

With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intellige...(展开全部)

With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intellige...(展开全部)

夏尔·波德莱尔（Charles Baudelair, 1821-1867），法国诗人。作品有诗集《恶之花》和散文诗集《巴黎的忧郁》，另写有大量文学和美学论文。他被认为是使欧洲人的经验方式和写作方式发生重大变革的作家，他的美学理论在诗歌和艺术史上是一个重大转折点，是现代主义各流派灵感与理论的不尽泉源。

December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔安娜·拉斯（1937—2011） 美国著名女性主义科幻作家、学者。 20世纪60年代，拉斯凭借其小说《在天堂野餐》在科幻小说界崭露头角；彼时科幻小说界几乎由男性作家占据，也只为男性读者服务，拉斯是最早对此形成挑战的女作者之一，之后她亦被认为是最重要的女性 主义科幻作家之一。她的主要科幻作品另有《雌性男人》《他们两个》等；非虚构作品另有《像女人那样写作》等。 【译者简介】 章艳，上海外国语大学教授，翻译学博士，硕士生导师，理论研究方向为文化翻译和翻译美学。译作另有《娱乐至死》《三十而栗》《通往明天的唯一道路：安·兰德专栏集粹》《论小丑：独裁者和艺术家》《青春无羁：狂飙时代的社会运动（1875—1945）》《朋友之间：汉娜·阿伦特、玛丽·麦卡锡书信集（1949—1975）》《重访美丽新世界》等。

Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.