Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff. The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to cloth...(展开全部)

Spectacularly eerie pictures chock full of hidden objects. A must for any Halloween collection.

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

Mark Schultz 曾为DC漫画公司（DC Comics）和惊奇漫画公司（Marvel Comics）创作过大量作品，他的剧本和插图已经获得5项哈维奖、2项艾斯纳奖和1项英克波特奖，其中最著名的作品包括他的力作《恐龙快打》（Xenozoic Tales）系列漫画和《超人》（Superman）。 Illustrated by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon 插图画家，他们的客户既包括美国国家海洋与大气管理局，也包括DC漫画公司，共同创作的作品包括《替身上帝》（The Replacement God）和Smax，此外，《前十名》（Top 10）还获得2项艾斯纳奖。

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. What if you could have your computer do that for you? In this second edition of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn the basics of programming in Python, the fastest growing programming language today, before moving on to create Pytho...(展开全部)

James Wood's The Fun Stuff confirms his preeminence not only as a discerning literary judge but as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passionate dispatcheswhich range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, and Mikhail LermontovWood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopedic unders...(展开全部)

James Wood's The Fun Stuff confirms his preeminence not only as a discerning literary judge but as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passionate dispatcheswhich range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, and Mikhail LermontovWood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopedic unders...(展开全部)

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. What if you could have your computer do that for you? In this second edition of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn the basics of programming in Python, the fastest growing programming language today, before moving on to create Pytho...(展开全部)

Herakles was one of the greatest of all Greek heroes, and his exploits have been celebrated in paintings, songs, poetry, and sculpture for thousands of years. Now it's time for him to have his own children's book, one devoted exclusively to his labors and adventures. Written by John Harris and illustrated by artist Gary Baseman, Strong Stuff tells the amazing stories of the Sty...(展开全部)