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”。

After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement in the form of three works which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building, and planning, which will, we hope, replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The T...(展开全部)

Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video? What goes on at the Scum Center? How do you get to the Apocalypse Café? In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and...(展开全部)

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)

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》。

左琴科（1894-1958），苏联作家。前半生创作了大量的幽默小说，讽刺小市民习气，揭示人性固有的缺陷在新时期的社会条件下的新形态，反映普通百姓生活之艰难，倍受大众读者的喜爱。

This is the first book in any language to explore the cultural connotations of childhood in the early phases of Chinese history. Drawing upon both traditional and archeological materials, this study encompasses the stages of human development that begin with the embryo and extend to late adolescence. While texts from China's most ancient period scarcely mention children, rather...(展开全部)

This is the first book in any language to explore the cultural connotations of childhood in the early phases of Chinese history. Drawing upon both traditional and archeological materials, this study encompasses the stages of human development that begin with the embryo and extend to late adolescence. While texts from China's most ancient period scarcely mention children, rather...(展开全部)

Through the lens of education reform and current education politics, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new 'analytic of youth', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding and critically engaging the politics that increasingl...(展开全部)

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and colou...(展开全部)