"Fascinating from the first page to the last—you won't be able to put it down." —Southern Living A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

"Beauty and the Beast" begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. He balances an examination of surgeries meant to enhance an individual's beauty with...(展开全部)

“Beauty and the Beast is an original work, surprising not only in its thesis but in its tone, pacing, and voice. It presents its case slowly and through digressions and returns, performing a way of theorizing through writing, training the reader to follow what’s going on as an ethnographer does—how everything matters, how we should just see where it all goes, and how we shouldn...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

作者： 加布丽埃勒 - 苏珊·巴尔博·德维尔纳夫（1695—1755）出生于法国巴黎。她的作品受到同时代作家的影响，特别是《灰姑娘》的作者夏尔·佩罗和首位提出“fairy tales”（神话故事）之说的奥诺伊公爵夫人。加布丽埃勒 - 苏珊一生出版了多部小说，而她最广为人知的身份是《美女与野兽》的原作者。 绘者： 米娜利马（MinaLima）是一家一流的平面设计工作室，它的创始人是米拉波拉·米娜（Miraphora Mina）和爱德华多·利马（Eduardo Lima）。他们曾为《哈利·波特》系列电影工作了十年，为该系列电影打造了一种独特的视觉图像风格。在伦敦设立工作室以后，他们继续用视觉艺术语言来讲故事，设计的领域包括书籍装帧、包装设计以及为电影创作图形道具。他们曾参与的电影有《理发师陶德》（2007 年）、《金色罗盘》（2007 年）、《模仿游戏》...(展开全部)

A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable. The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most peo...(展开全部)

A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable. The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most peo...(展开全部)

Gawain is a loyal and true goose serving as chief guard of the royal treasury. He'd been happy enough with his life at home tending his garden and making sketches of architectural masterpieces. Now he's being charged with stealing from the treasury. Gawain is certain of his innocence, but he can't prove it. Will the real thief come forward to save Gawain, or will he live in exi...(展开全部)

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive....(展开全部)