With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant keeper co...(展开全部)

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these ten strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant kee...(展开全部)

汉娜•亭蒂，美国文学杂志《一个故事》创始人之一，《动物怪谭》获选为2003年美国悬疑小说，海明威文学奖次奖，被翻译成17国语言.长篇小说《THE GOOD THIEF》获《纽约时报》年度好书,被誉为“第二个爱伦坡”。

Humans live in landscapes of make-believe: we spin fantasies, we devour novels, films, and plays, and even our sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are “wired” for story, but why? In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the fi...(展开全部)

Humans live in landscapes of make-believe: we spin fantasies, we devour novels, films, and plays, and even our sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are “wired” for story, but why? In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the fi...(展开全部)

乔纳森·歌德夏 Jonathan Gottschall，华盛顿与杰斐逊学院英文系教授，专门研究科学和艺术的交汇以及相互作用。作品曾获《纽约时报》《自然》《科学美国》等媒体报道。麻省理工学院心理学家史蒂芬·平克曾形容歌德夏是“才华横溢的年轻学者”其写作“绝对清晰、睿智且令人兴奋不已。” 译者 许雅淑，台湾大学图书馆系、台湾清华大学社会学研究所毕业，现为清大社会学研究所博士生，终日与字为舞，为专职文字工作者同时也是一只狂爱阅读各种故事的动物。 译者 李宗义，台湾政治大学英语系、东亚研究所毕业，台湾清华大学社会学研究所博士，研究写作之余也热爱翻译，已有多本译作。

The 3rd edition of this classic textbook continues to serve as a one-stop resource for authoritative information on all aspects of small animal surgery. Coverage includes basic procedures such as spays, castrations, and declaws, as well as more advanced surgeries that might be referred to specialists such as craniotomy, ventral slots, and lung lobectomy. Discussions of general ...(展开全部)

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, bo...(展开全部)

David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous —hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring and truly original” by Science —has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading throu...(展开全部)