A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order. The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were a...(展开全部)

A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order. The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were a...(展开全部)

One of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, as he is faced with Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, who has an unfortunate effect on the people around her - they have a habit of dying violently.

"As close to genius as one gets in a picture book."-- USA Today * An ABBY Honor Book * ALA Notable Book * ALA Best Books for Young Adults * The Horn Book Fanfare * Texas Bluebonnet Award * Publishers Weekly Best Books of 1995 * School Library Journal Best Books of 1995 * Booklist : Editors' Choice Award

When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.

约翰·席斯卡： 美国著名童书作家。他和兰·史密斯是童书界的最佳拍挡，曾一起合作过《臭起司小子爆笑故事大集合》《数学魔咒》《科学童话》等。 席斯卡于2008年被美国图书馆协会任命为“国家青年文学大使”。2001年开始，致力于推动男孩阅读活动。 兰·史密斯： 美国著名童书插画家，经常和约翰·席斯卡合作创作童书。他创作的《臭起司小子爆笑故事大合集》获得了凯迪克银奖。他本人也获奖无数，曾经三次获得美国插画协会颁发的银奖，四次入选《纽约时报》最佳图书奖等。

The Skyscraper Curse is Dr. Mark Thornton's definitive work on booms and busts, and it explains why only Austrian economists really understand them. It makes business cycle theory accessible to a whole new 21st-century audience. And they need it, especially those under 40. Many of the brilliant quants working on Wall Street and at the Fed barely remember the Crash of 2008, much...(展开全部)

A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan’s greatest crime writers In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan’s terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstro...(展开全部)

One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. Written over fifteen years, the essays--six of them previously unpublished--fall into three parts. Part I deals with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unprobl...(展开全部)