所有的父母都希望自己的孩子能够得到最好的照顾和教育，然而，父母能够给予自己深爱的孩子们的资源、天赋、机会却不尽相同。
本书以内容丰富的故事情节和极富洞察力的生活细节，考察了贫困家庭、工人阶级家庭、中产阶级家庭孩子在学校和在家里的生活，从而确认了，父母的社会地位会以一种在很大程度上是无形的但又是强有力的方式冲击着孩子的人生经历，并标识出了不平等的社会地位是如何影响教育方式的。

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, the author follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live. The author also wrote "Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland".

西太平洋上的航海者，ISBN：9787500481744，作者：（英）布罗尼斯拉夫·马林诺夫斯基 著，张云江 译

研究民族学在中国的发展史，对中国民族学的发展有重要意义，认真总结中国民族学发展历程中的经验和教训，是学科发展的基本要求，亦是中国民族学家的责任。本卷主要研究20世纪前半期中国民族学的历史演变。

本书所收的系列文章主要是对传统社会与文化本身的结构性研究。作者不满于过去流行的“租佃神话”和“宗族神话”，主张在社会-经济分析与思想-文化分析的综合与融会中把握传统时代真正具有规定性的那些规则，跳出“反儒”与“尊儒”对峙的传统观之争，在社会结构上摆脱大共同体本位的传统桎梏而走向公民社会，在文化-象征符号体系中主张“西儒会融，解构法道互补”，以穷则兼济天下、达则独善其身的人格资源与民主宪政-人权保障的现代制度安排来消除那种专制制度下强权-犬儒互补的人格弊病。