In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, as it teeters between hilarity and...(展开全部)

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors(and born vaudevillians)Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition . Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and ...(展开全部)

Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what it's like being stra...(展开全部)

One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrived in Kabul in 2006, she imagined it as a homecoming – a return to the land from where her Pashtun forebears hailed. Falling in with poets, doctors and other journalists, she began exploring the city on foot and discovered a Kabul quite different from the one s...(展开全部)

One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrived in Kabul in 2006, she imagined it as a homecoming – a return to the land from where her Pashtun forebears hailed. Falling in with poets, doctors and other journalists, she began exploring the city on foot and discovered a Kabul quite different from the one s...(展开全部)

一个物质文明高度发达、军事实力超强的石头星球，征服了宇宙中几乎所有的星球，唯独征服不了一个微不足道的月亮般大小的海洋之星。海洋之星是一个全部由赤身裸体、手脚带蹼、单性生育的女人同性世界，她们拥有高度发达的生命技术和精湛的纺丝技术，保持着最为古老的传统，住在漂浮于海面的丛浮基上。一天，星际飞船送来了一位男非客，他来自石头之星，他天天在海洋上与她们厮守相伴，并结下深情厚谊，与泽洋女迸发爱情之花。石头之星崇尚暴力和专制统治，出兵征伐海洋之星，海洋之星坚守不抵抗的和平原则，最后让石头之星的讨伐大军彻底失败，海洋之星也遭受到几乎毁灭性的损失。 《入海之门》不仅仅是一部富有想象力、情节生动的科幻小说，在故事的叙述中我们还看到了一个文化的哲学框架：一个充满和平与平等共享的文化。丝隆采乌斯基塑造了鲜活的泽洋之星众生形象，从开始直到看完之后很久，读者都会一直沉浸在泽洋...(展开全部)

一个物质文明高度发达、军事实力超强的石头星球，征服了宇宙中几乎所有的星球，唯独征服不了一个微不足道的月亮般大小的海洋之星。海洋之星是一个全部由赤身裸体、手脚带蹼、单性生育的女人同性世界，她们拥有高度发达的生命技术和精湛的纺丝技术，保持着最为古老的传统，住在漂浮于海面的丛浮基上。一天，星际飞船送来了一位男非客，他来自石头之星，他天天在海洋上与她们厮守相伴，并结下深情厚谊，与泽洋女迸发爱情之花。石头之星崇尚暴力和专制统治，出兵征伐海洋之星，海洋之星坚守不抵抗的和平原则，最后让石头之星的讨伐大军彻底失败，海洋之星也遭受到几乎毁灭性的损失。 《入海之门》不仅仅是一部富有想象力、情节生动的科幻小说，在故事的叙述中我们还看到了一个文化的哲学框架：一个充满和平与平等共享的文化。丝隆采乌斯基塑造了鲜活的泽洋之星众生形象，从开始直到看完之后很久，读者都会一直沉浸在泽洋...(展开全部)

We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is k...(展开全部)

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder With an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the Dickson Carr short story "The Shadow of the Goat" We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian...(展开全部)

艾瑞·卡尔（Eric Carle),1929年出生于纽约，1935年随父母返德国定居。艾瑞·卡尔讨厌德国式的教育，权威教育下的学校生活及时代的战乱，让他的少年时光并不快乐。战后，从小就展露绘画天分且向往自由浪漫的艾瑞·卡尔，在中学绘画老师的推荐及母亲的鼓励下，进入斯图加特艺术学院学习了四年的商业设计，一毕业即在时尚杂志担任艺术总监。1952年，艾瑞·卡尔再次踏上他要实现梦想的土地——美国。因缘巧合，艾瑞·卡尔得到李欧·李奥尼的赏识和推荐，顺利开始他在《纽约时报》的工作，发挥美术兼广告设计的长才。1960年成立了个人工作室，辛勤工作之外，他更渴望蜕变、渴望创作！1967年，艾瑞·卡尔首次有机会为孩子的书配上插画，这次充满乐趣、大胆发挥创意的过程，让他感觉畅快淋漓，也引领他日后走向为儿童创作图画书的道路。他年近40才开始创作图画书，迄今为止，已经创作了《...(展开全部)