Absurd comics for our absurd times, from the artist behind the wildly popular webcomic Poorly Drawn Lines. In his follow up to the New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines, beloved webcomic artist Reza Farazmand returns with a new collection of comics that hilariously skewers our modern age. Comics for a Strange World takes readers through time, space, and alternate realit...(展开全部)

Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius's father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through ...(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。

In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appe...(展开全部)

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materialit...(展开全部)

In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a Shell, Thom van Dooren offers a collection of snail stories from Hawai'i—once home to more than 750 species of land snails, almost two-thirds of which are now gone. Following snail trails through forests, laboratories, museums, and ...(展开全部)

When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? Which author's heart was purportedly eaten by a cat? One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984? Who made the first bouillon so...(展开全部)

维基•伍德盖特 Vicky Woodgate 英国作家、插画师。她从事过十年的插画工作，也在电影电视行业和主题公园做过场景艺术家。她一直对野生动物拥有非凡的热情，喜爱旅行和绘制地图。目前她生活在英国的海滨城市布莱顿。

From Morse code to the bones in the human body, this visually stunning collection of facts and figures puts a world of information at your fingertips. How much do clouds weigh? Who invented the pencil? How many ways can you tie a knot? Discover the answers to these and many other questions in this elegant and absorbing miscellany of general knowledge. From music notation to Rom...(展开全部)

[英]理查德•普拉特（Richard Platt），著者，英国知名科普作家。自1992年开始专注创作儿童科普作品，擅长用生动的文字、精彩的事实吸引孩子阅读。已先后出版70余部儿童科普图书。长期与DK、Walker等知名出版机构合作。其作品曾获得蓝彼得童书奖、斯马蒂斯大奖、凯特•格林纳威奖。 [英]詹姆斯•布朗（James Brown），绘者，英国著名版画与插图设计师，拥有丰富创作经验，擅长将“信息可视化”设计理念应用到艺术创作中，长期与V＆A、《卫报》、LV等合作。从小在父母创作童书的环境中长大，有时还会出现在他们的书中。受Walker邀请，将“信息可视化”的设计理念带入童书科普领域。