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The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson; Laura Miller
Amazon.com ReviewShirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned it.... -
The Coalwood Way - Homer Hickam
It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the We... -
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
SUMMARY:It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a... -
Mother night - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Siren... -
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
SUMMARY:On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from... -
Homesick - Guy Vanderhaeghe
It is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estranged daughter to come home, with the grandson he has never seen. But this is an une... -
Havana Nocturne - T. J. English
From Publishers WeeklyOld Havana mambos on the brink of the abyss in this chronicle of Cuba in the decades before the 1959 revolution. True-crime writer English (Paddy Whacked) pr.... -
Forever Barbie_ The Unauthorize - Lord; M. G
SUMMARY: Since Barbie's introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by wo... -
社会学的想像力
《社会学的想像力》堪称米尔斯一生学术精华的大成之作；它以批判美国社会学界的成果作为全书的探讨主题，运用知识社会学的观点，并结合作者在社会阶层等方面的研究经验，批判传统学科的抽象与僵化界限，由此强调“社会学想像力”的重大意义。 本书初版于1959年，现在已成为英语世界，乃至世界各地社会学教学中广受推崇的入门经典；1989年美国社会学界还就本书发表30周年召集学...