A Double Scotch tells the intertwined success stories of Chivas Regal and The Glenlivet—two Scotch whisky brands recognized the world-over for their unparalleled quality. Founded by Scottish grocers from Aberdeen, Chivas Regal stands as the world’s most popular prestige blended Scotch. First distilled by a pistol-packing Highlander, The Glenlivet is today the top-selling single...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 When Braid Beard's pirate crew invites Jeremy Jacob to join their voyage, he jumps right on board. Buried treasure, sea chanteys, pirate talk--who wouldn't go along? Soon Jeremy Jacob knows all about being a pirate. He throws his food across the table and his manners to the wind. He hollers like thunder and laughs off bedtime. It's the heave-ho, blow-the-man-down, very ...(展开全部)

梅林达·朗 在美国，梅琳达不仅仅是个童书作家，还是一位非常有影响力的教师。她的创作灵感大多来源于小时候的经历和幻想。她写出这段海盗故事，就是因为童年的时候在自家后院玩过藏宝游戏。除了《千万别去当海盗》《海盗从不换尿布》，她的得意之作还有《海盗活动手册》《当爸爸打鼾时》。《千万别去当海盗》出版后，获得了美国国家亲子出版奖、国际阅读学会、美国童书协会儿童评选最爱童书，并持续位居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜。据说，在创作这则故事时，梅琳达满口都是流利的海盗话，离她家不远的地方还有个著名的海盗窝呢。 大卫·夏农 一个海盗话不太流利的画家。1959年生于华盛顿。擅长运用油画技法创作绘本，他的作品画面饱满、色彩浓郁，焕发出勃勃的生机。除了会讲海盗话，他还懂 “鸭子语”呢，他的《鸭子骑车记》深受小朋友的喜爱。他还创作过《下雨了》《大卫不可以》《大卫上学去》等绘本，作品...(展开全部)

斯蒂夫·赫利(Steve Hely)，美国作家，编剧。毕业于哈佛大学，在校期间曾担任哈佛校园最知名的刊物《哈佛妙文》的社长。毕业后从事编剧工作，为脱口秀节目《戴维·莱特曼晚间秀》、喜剧卡通片《美国老爹》、电视剧《我为喜剧狂》担任编剧及制作人，所参与节 目多次获得美国电视界类最高奖项艾美奖。与人合著漫画游记《荒唐的赛跑》。

What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a scenic lake; and&#8212perhaps mostly importantly&#8212the chance to humiliate his ex-girlfriend at her w...(展开全部)

Douglas Rushkoff was mugged outside his apartment on Christmas Eve, but when he posted a friendly warning on his community website, the responses castigated him for potentially harming the local real-estate market. When did these corporate values overtake civic responsibilities? Rushkoff examines how corporatism has become an intrinsic part of our everyday lives, choices and op...(展开全部)

This didn’t just happen. In Life Inc. , award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it. This fascina...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the w...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the w...(展开全部)

From Babylon to Columbus and beyond, a journey across millennia and—yes—the globe exploring how we came to understand our spherical planet. The Globe tells the story of humanity’s quest to discover the form of the world: that the Earth is round and not flat. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the know...(展开全部)