Following on the heels of Martin Parr’s limited-edition, album-style publication Life’s a Beach, Aperture now presents this beach-friendly mini edition. Parr has been photographing the topic of the beach for many decades, documenting sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge and the eternal sandy picnic. His international career, in fact, could well be traced to the p...(展开全部)

As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of th...(展开全部)

伊丽莎白·斯特劳特 (Elizabeth Strout)美国当代著名作家。1956年生于美国缅因州的波特兰市，大学毕业后开始文学创作，作品散见于《纽约客》等重要文学杂志。1998年，出版长篇处女作《艾米和伊莎贝拉》（Amy and Isabelle），先后荣获《洛杉矶时报》最佳首作奖及《芝加哥论坛报》中心文学奖，并入选橘子奖决选名单和美国笔会/福克纳奖提名。2006年出版《与我同在》（Abide with Me），登上全美畅销榜，入选美国独立书商协会选书。2008年出版第三部作品《奥丽芙·基特里奇》（Olive Kitteridge），次年获得普利策小说奖。 《伯吉斯家的男孩们》是她的最新作品。作者用一个家庭的故事，精妙地刻画了文化之间、人性之间的冲突和矛盾。在美国出版后，即成为“《纽约时报》畅销书”“亚马逊十大精装书”，同时被《华盛顿邮报》、美国国...(展开全部)

As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of th...(展开全部)

Chocolate chippers, lemon bars, madeleines, brownies, shortbread, thumbprints, rugelach, biscotti, mandelbrot, and fortune cookies we all love them. We love them even better when they are home-baked. The ultimate comfort food, fresh-baked cookies offer instant reassurance, consolation, and community. One of the reasons we hesitate to bake cookies is that all too frequentl...(展开全部)

"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago Tribune Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly written history paints a magnifice...(展开全部)

Chocolate chippers, lemon bars, madeleines, brownies, shortbread, thumbprints, rugelach, biscotti, mandelbrot, and fortune cookies we all love them. We love them even better when they are home-baked. The ultimate comfort food, fresh-baked cookies offer instant reassurance, consolation, and community. One of the reasons we hesitate to bake cookies is that all too frequentl...(展开全部)

"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago Tribune Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly written history paints a magnifice...(展开全部)

The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere. The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom ...(展开全部)

The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere. The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom ...(展开全部)