In Season 1, feeling his handle on his family and his business slipping away, mob boss Tony Soprano suffers a series of anxiety attacks that land him in the office of a psychiatrist. Opening up to his shrink, Tony relates the details of his life as a “waste-management consultant,” and tries to come to terms with the professional and private strains that have brought him to the brink of a breakdown.

此卷收录卡尔维诺两部小说名篇《寒冬夜行人》和《帕洛马尔》，以及小说演讲稿《美国讲稿》（又译为“未来千年文学备忘录”）。 《寒冬夜行人》发表于一九七九年；《帕洛马尔》发表于一九八三年，是卡尔维诺创作的最后一部小说；《美国讲稿》系卡尔维诺准备用于美国哈佛大学诺顿诗论讲座的讲稿，撰写于一九八五年，因作家的猝然逝世而未完成。 卡尔维诺写于1979年的《寒冬夜行人》（又译作“如果在冬夜，一个旅人”）可被看成“小说中的小说，文学中的文学。”在十余万字的篇幅里卡氏处处埋雷：情节的雷、思辩的雷、探究的雷。它以一男一女两位读者为调换装订错误的《寒冬夜行人》而相遇、相知、相爱的故事为线索，同时杂糅10部不同作家所写的小说片段，有意制造阅读体验的迷宫效果。甚至作者本人也在小说中以一个角色出现，上窜下跳……它使得小说的阅读更像参与一个语文智力游戏。与电脑游戏之类不一样的是，它完全要在彻头彻尾的想象中完成。 在小说《帕洛马尔》中，化身为帕洛马尔的卡尔维诺，将他对世界的最后沉思，掩映在叙述中，穿透了人生的全部经验，小说出版一年后，因卡尔维诺溘然长逝而成为绝响，意味深长的是《帕洛马尔》的最后一章完全记叙的是主人公对死亡的沉思默想。 在《美国讲稿》中，卡尔维诺对自己近四十年来小说创作实践的丰富经验，进行系统的回顾和理论上的总结、阐发。作者广征博引，结合自古至今，从意大利到欧美各国许多文学大师的创作实例，从理论与实践的结合上，对文学创作的本质特征，对小说的构思，对艺术形象的作用及其与想像、幻想的关系，对文艺理论批评的现状等一系列问题，做了详尽、周密的论述，切中肯綮，富于见地，是研究小说诗学的一部力作。尤其值得注意的是，卡尔维诺清醒地意识到，当今人的认识和当今的文学，暴露出越来越明显的局限性，他努力地探究，流传千百年的文学模式、范畴，在未来的世纪，是否还有生命力；在未来的世纪，是否存在一种可能性，用一种新的生存与写作的方式，来替代旧的生存与写作的方式。

卡尔维诺根据意大利各地几个世纪以来用各种方言记录的民间故事资料，加以筛选整理，用现代通用意大利语改写成这部适合全体意大利人民阅读、并且便于向全世界介绍的“全意大利的童话书”——《意大利童话》。 这部作品中既讲述了许多流传在意大利民间的优美动人的故事，也向读者展示了一些在欧洲各国广泛流传的故事的意大利风格版本。读者从中看到的不光是意大利人民的生活，更是他们丰富美好的精神世界。

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child poverty rates. Can American women look to European policies for solutions? Making Motherhood Work draws on interviews that sociologist Caitlyn Collins conducted over five years with 135 middle-class working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She explores how women navigate work and family given the different policy supports available in each country. Taking readers into women's homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces, Collins shows that mothers' desires and expectations depend heavily on context. In Sweden--renowned for its gender-equal policies--mothers assume they will receive support from their partners, employers, and the government. In the former East Germany, with its history of mandated employment, mothers don't feel conflicted about working, but some curtail their work hours and ambitions. Mothers in western Germany and Italy, where maternalist values are strong, are stigmatized for pursuing careers. Meanwhile, American working mothers stand apart for their guilt and worry. Policies alone, Collins discovers, cannot solve women's struggles. Easing them will require a deeper understanding of cultural beliefs about gender equality, employment, and motherhood. With women held to unrealistic standards in all four countries, the best solutions demand that we redefine motherhood, work, and family. Making Motherhood Work vividly demonstrates that women need not accept their work-family conflict as inevitable. "Collins, a sociology professor, draws on interviews with working mothers in four different countries in this evenhanded, discerning exploration of work-family balance. Organizing her research by country, Collins finds that balance requires a harmonious confluence of workplace accommodations, government policies, and supportive cultural attitude. . . . Collins suggests that policies must be passed in packages, rather than piecemeal--for example, making sure that daycare is available for children at the age when parental leave ends--to be most useful. This study, whose comparative approach illuminates how cultural norms affect policies and economic results, is intelligent, thought-provoking, and clarifying."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Making Motherhood Work is destined to become a classic. Caitlyn Collins conducted in-depth interviews with 135 employed, middle-class mothers in the United States and in three European countries. She finds that mothers face conflict between their work and family responsibilities in all four countries, even gender-egalitarian Sweden. Collins points to European policies that could positively impact mothers and families in the United States. Yet she notes the pervasive influence of cultural expectations of mothers that are coercive and unattainable. All four countries need a cultural redefinition of motherhood that describes and honors what is possible."--Mary Blair-Loy, author of Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Executive Women "Comparing women in Europe and the United States and how they combine work and motherhood, Making Motherhood Work is the first cross-cultural investigation of what it feels like to live within different cultural and policy worlds. Mothers (and fathers)--even future ones--need to read this fascinating, thought-provoking, and illuminating book."--Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity "Through insightful interviews with employed mothers living in diverse national contexts, Caitlyn Collins demonstrates clearly and convincingly that our growing caregiving crisis stems from unjust social arrangements, not irresponsible individuals. The breadth and depth of Making Motherhood Work make it a unique and invaluable contribution that calls for nothing less than a worldwide movement for work-family justice."--Kathleen Gerson, author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family "This ambitious and beautifully written book considers how women manage work and family in varying contexts. Carrying out wide-scale interviews in multiple settings and countries, Making Motherhood Work shows how differences in work-family policies lead to differences in the challenges that women face. An impressive contribution."--Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachment to standardized mass production for a system of flexible specialization.

圖書館期刊：『巴瑞科是作家中的作家，更精確的說，他是貨真價實的實驗主義者！《CITY》的角色、背景設定引人入勝！……一本才華洋溢、光彩奪目的作品！』好書情報：『巴瑞科的文筆帶有一種迷人的節奏，有趣同時又悲傷；社會邊緣人彼此尋找依靠安慰的老故事，在巴瑞可筆下卻充滿了想像力，既辛辣又尖銳！』 洛杉磯時報：『巴瑞科的每本作品都充滿了創造力！』 我想要寫出一本書， 裡面文字流動的感覺就像是 ─ 有人在城市中迷了路， 而當他回家後有人問他看到了什麼， 他回答說：『我看到了城市。』少年顧爾德是個天才，十一歲就拿到了物理學碩士學位。他原本獨居，非常孤獨，直到夏姿住進了他的家。顧爾德和夏姿生活得非常快樂，他們甚至買了一輛黃色拖車，想一同環遊世界。但顧爾德還是走了，他做了他早就決定要做的決定，坐上一輛往未知地方的火車…… 作者簡介 亞歷山卓．巴瑞科 Alessandro Baricco 一九五八年生於義大利杜林。他是當前義大利最受矚目的小說家，在全世界均擁有廣大的忠實讀者。他是歐洲各項重要文學獎的常勝軍：《憤怒的城堡》是他的第一部小說，一出版即贏得法國文壇最重要的『麥迪西獎』和義大利威尼斯的『坎皮利歐文學獎』！《海洋，海》一書則在義大利贏得『維多雷久文學獎』和『波斯克城堡文學獎』；《絹》一出版更立刻登上義大利暢銷排行榜，熱潮迅即延燒全歐洲，並盤據各大文學書暢銷排行榜，並翻譯超過三十種語言，米拉梅公司更已買下其電影版權。 他九九年的最新作品《城市》，義大利甫推出便銷售達二十萬冊，在歐洲各國也極為暢銷。巴瑞科的每一部作品均題材迥異，但皆具有樂曲般的特質，並以舞台劇的形式鋪陳，頗具實驗性。他說：『我偏好以創新的寫法呈現每一部作品，讓讀者的眼睛為之一亮。倘若要我總是以同一種路線寫作，那麼寫作的樂趣將會消失殆盡。』巴瑞科享有多項卓越的藝術成就，他同時也從事音樂評論，在義大利並以一個有關歌劇和另一個有關文學的電視節目，享有極高的聲譽。