Looks at the life of particle physicists, showing who these people are and what their world is really like. Traweek shows their similarities and differences, how their careers are shaped, how they interact with their colleagues and how their ideas about time and space shape their social structure.
Review
A groundbreaking work about how modern science functions. As the only anthropologist studying high-energy physics, Traweek brings a unique and valuable perspective to the study of this curious and important modern community.
--Michael Riordan (Technology Review )
Every sensitive observer of contemporary science and technology will want to read this short, compelling description.
--Susan E. Cozzens (Science )
Traweek gets inside the heads of physicists…She shows their similarities and difference, how their careers are shaped, how they interact with their colleagues, how they do physics and how their ideas about time and space shape their social structure. Traweek has produced a revealing and intimate look at this exclusive world and its mores.
--Lee Dembart (Los Angeles Times )
Traweek's account successfully captures much of the flavour of the high-energy physicist's way of life…They aspire to reveal the immutable, everlasting laws governing the evolution of the universe "outside human space and time" yet the physicist themselves, only brief visitors to this world, are all too human, children of their cultures in their pride and frailties.
--John Mulvey (Times Higher Education Supplement )

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism
and The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now
surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.

A brilliant social satire, it’s also been called the Vanity Fair for the Twenties: the dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount’s society parties engage in dazzling and witty conversations in these wickedly funny portraits of D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell and Huxley himself.</p>

First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda’s most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet’s most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the genius of a master poet. This edition features the newly corrected original Spanish text, with masterly English translations by award-winning poet W. S. Merwin on facing pages.
Includes twelve sketches by Pablo Picasso
New introduction by Cristina García
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition pacjaged with French flaps

The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

地主少爷福贵嗜赌成性，终于赌光了家业一贫如洗，穷困之中的福贵因为母亲生病前去求医，没想到半路上被国民党部队抓了壮丁，后被解放军所俘虏，回到家乡他才知道母亲已经去世，妻子家珍含辛茹苦带大了一双儿女，但女儿不幸变成了聋哑人，儿子机灵活泼……
然而，真正的悲剧从此才开始渐次上演，每读一页，都让我们止不住泪湿双眼，因为生命里难得的温情将被一次次死亡撕扯得粉碎，只剩得老了的福贵伴随着一头老牛在阳光下回忆。

这是以文革时期为背景的系列作品构成的长篇。发生“文化大革命”的二十世纪六七十年代，正是我们国家和民族的灾难年代。那时，知识分子群体无能为力而极“左”政治泛滥横行。作为倍受歧视的知识分子，往往丧失了自我意志和个人尊严。在这组系列作品里面，名叫“王二”的男主人公处于恐怖和荒谬的环境，遭到各种不公正待遇，但他却摆脱了传统文化人的悲愤心态，创造出一种反抗和超越的方式：既然不能证明自己无辜，便倾向于证明自己不无辜。于是他以性爱作为对抗外部世界的最后据点，将性爱表现得既放浪形骸又纯净无邪，不但不觉羞耻，还轰轰烈烈地进行到底，对陈规陋习和政治偏见展开了极其尖锐而又饱含幽默的挑战。一次次被斗、挨整，他都处之坦然，乐观为本，获得了价值境界上的全线胜利。作者用一种机智的光辉烛照当年那种无处不在的压抑，使人的精神世界从悲惨暗淡的历史阴影中超拔出来。

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, Okonowo takes violent action. Will the great man's dangerous pride eventually destroy him?

After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men's Journal, retraces McCandless's ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods. Maps. 35,000 first printing; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Iris Murdoch's debut--a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose 'philosophy' he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome. Jake, fascinated, longs to learn Hugo's secret. Perhaps Hugo's secret is Hugo himself? Admonished, enlightened, Jake hopes at last to become a real writer.

In Theatre , W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa –introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting.
It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until a quiet stranger who challenges Julia's very sense of self. As a result, she will endure rejection for the first time, her capacity as a mother will be affronted, and her ability to put on whatever face she desired for her public will prove limited. In Theatre , Maugham subtly exposes the tensions and triumphs that occur when acting and reality blend together, and–for Julia–ultimately reverse.

"Literary critics make natural detectives", says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair between the two Victorian writers the pair has dedicated their lives to studying: Randolph Ash, a literary great long assumed to be a devoted and faithful husband, and Christabel La Motte, a lesser- known "fairy poetess" and chaste spinster. At first, Roland and Maud's discovery threatens only to alter the direction of their research, but as they unearth the truth about the long- forgotten romance, their involvement becomes increasingly urgent and personal. Desperately concealing their purpose from competing researchers, they embark on a journey that pulls each of them from solitude and loneliness, challenges the most basic assumptions they hold about themselves, and uncovers their unique entitlement to the secret of Ash and La Motte's passion.
Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, Possession is a gripping and compulsively readable novel. A.S. Byatt exquisitely renders a setting rich in detail and texture. Her lush imagery weaves together the dual worlds that appear throughout the novel--the worlds of the mind and the senses, of male and female, of darkness and light, of truth and imagination--into an enchanted and unforgettable tale of love and intrigue. --Lisa Whipple

村上春树以中篇小说《且听风吟》开始文学创作。
“我”在酒吧捡到一个醉倒的少女，在她的家中度过了醉意朦胧的一夜。醒来的误会还未能解释清楚，他们已经成了一对情人，伤感的往事还未诉说清楚，她却已经一去无踪影。短短十八天的恋情，结束的又似没头没脑，又似包含无限。“我”只有独自悄坐海边，谛听夏风轻吟。

37岁的男主人公，在东京市区拥有两家兴旺的酒吧，还有娇美的妻子，可爱的女儿，他是一位真正的成功人士。但是，他的内心还是感到饥饿干渴，事业和家庭都填补不了，而让他那缺憾的部分充盈起来的，是他小学时的女友岛本。岛本不愿吐露自己的经历、身份、只希望他就这样接受眼前的自己，只把她当成小学时那个爱古典乐的女孩。然而，就在他接受了这不可能接受的条件时，两人却在箱根别墅度过了销魂的一夜。翌晨，她一去杳然、再无踪迹可寻了。

这是一部动人心弦的、平缓舒雅的、略带感伤的恋爱小说。小说主人公渡边以第一人称展开他同两个女孩间的爱情纠葛。渡边的第一个恋人直子原是他高中要好同学木月的女友，后来木月自杀了。一年后渡边同直子不期而遇并开始交往。此时的直子已变得娴静腼腆，美丽晶莹的眸子里不时掠过一丝难以捕捉的阴翳。两人只是日复一日地在落叶飘零的东京街头漫无目标地或前或后或并肩行走不止。直子20岁生日的晚上两人发生了性关系，不料第二天直子便不知去向。几个月后直子来信说她住进一家远在深山里的精神疗养院。渡边前去探望时发现直子开始带有成熟女性的丰腴与娇美。晚间两人虽同处一室，但渡边约束了自己，分手前表示永远等待直子。返校不久，由于一次偶然相遇，渡边开始与低年级的绿子交往。绿子同内向的直子截然相反，“简直就像迎着春天的晨光蹦跳到世界上来的一头小鹿”。这期间，渡边内心十分苦闷彷徨。一方面念念不忘直子缠绵的病情与柔情，一方面又难以抗拒绿子大胆的表白和迷人的活力。不久传来直子自杀的噩耗，渡边失魂魄地四处徒步旅行。最后，在直子同房病友玲子的鼓励下，开始摸索此后的人生。

Lk mos people I lived for a long time with my mother and<br > ~her liked to watch the wrestling， my mother liked<br > My<br > father<br > tow~stle;it didn t matter what. She was n he wh e corner and<br > that was that.<br > She hung out the largest sheets on the windiest days. She<br > ~n ed the Mormons to knock on the door. At election time in a<br > Labour mill town she put a picture of the Conservative<br > candidate in ~he window.<br > She had never heard of mixed fedings. There were friends and<br > th~re were enemms.<br > Enemies were: The Devil (in his many forms)<br > Next Door<br > Sex (in its many forms)<br > Slugs<br > Friends were: God<br > Our dog<br > Auntie Madgc<br > The Novels of Charlotte Bront6<br > Slug pellets<br > and me， at first. [ had been brought in to join her in a tag match<br > against the Rest of the World. She had a mysterious attitude<br > !owards the begetting of children it wasn t that she couldn t do<br > it+ mo~ that she didn t want to do it She was very bitter about<br > th， Virgin+ Mary getting there firs So he did the next best thing<br > anm arranged fo a oundling That was me<br > We had no Wise Men becau e she didn t believe the e we e any<br > tcannozrecallatimewhen lddno know hat l was special.<br > wL+ men， but we had sheep One of my earl est memori<br >~ ，+ ~ng on . t es is me<br >!~ Sactfi asheepatEase wh le she told me the oyo he<br > SLlclaa..，~ Lamb. We had it on Sundays with potato<br > +hol~d~I d s h day of the<br > mah g~k; we had a tad g t h h tmposmg<br > ~ura)ly w~dListefaedBt~kt~e kghth indue. ~ut ohn<br > 3<br >

《三月曝书》是林文月散文作品集，内容包括书香岁月、往事情趣、异国游历、美食佳肴。全书充满了作者对书的情趣，对校园时光、往事故人的回忆，在异国之旅中的感悟，以及飘逸着书香的生活趣事。

《荒人手记》为台湾著名女作家朱天文的长篇小说代表作。1994年，朱天文创作了长篇小说《荒人手记》，并一举夺得台湾首届时报文学百万小说大奖首奖。朱天文对这部作品也最为自负，称有了这部作品，“终于可以和张爱玲平了”。
这本书采用同性恋的视角，以一个中年同志的手记形式来写作。实际上作家与第一人称是分离的，身份特征被作家借用。全书遣词造语极端风格化，精炼而浓稠度甚高，句句箴言，故事性方面则涵盖许多面向，形式独特，近似意识流手法，将生活事件拆散成充满生命力的碎片加以知觉化的重组，传达对生命与生活的思考，一度曾被质疑其是否可归类为小说样式，引发讨论。

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to crumble.
With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.