Beware...this book is cursed! These strange but true stories of the world’s most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buffs, horror fans, and anyone who loves a good spine-tingling tale. They’re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes. Their often tragic and always bizarre stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, nove...(展开全部)

A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! In 19...(展开全部)

A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! In 19...(展开全部)

Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his none-too-distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins. Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism of our mid-century technotopia whil...(展开全部)

Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his none-too-distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins. Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism of our mid-century technotopia whil...(展开全部)

"The Red Notebook" brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster's short, true-life storiesa remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality. Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including "The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr...(展开全部)

"The first monograph on renowned fashion illustrator David Downton. With a Foreword by Christian Lacroix, and an Afterword by Dita Von Teese, this book showcases around 150 of David's drawings, featuring celebrities, actors, models, and fashion designers. The illustrations are enlivened by fascinating anecdotes revealing behind-the-scenes stories from the world of fashion. Davi...(展开全部)

As Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds, said, "After reading Marjorie Shaffer's Pepper, you'll reconsider the significance of that grinder or shaker on your dining room table. The pursuit of this wizened berry with the bite changed history in ways you've never dreamed, involving extraordinary voyages, international trade, exotic locales, exploitation, brutality, diseas...(展开全部)

玛乔丽·谢弗（Marjorie Shaffer）毕业于布朗大学，在伊利诺伊大学香槟分校获生物学硕士学位。她目前是纽约大学医学院（New York University School of Medicine）的科学作家和编辑，曾为《纽约时报》、《金融时报》、《大众科学》撰稿，并曾任路透社商业记者，入选麻省理工学院奈特科学新闻班（Knight Science Journalism）成员。 ◎ 译者简介 顾淑馨，台湾大学历史系毕业、淡江大学美国研究所硕士。曾任职台湾中国广播公司、联合报系及“美国在台协会”，并曾兼任淡江大学、政治大学及东吴大学讲师。目前专事翻译，已出版译作近四十种，主要有《乐在沟通》《与成功有约》《反挫》《大外交》（合译）等，近作有《会说才会赢》《谎言教父马多夫》《逆龄社会》等。

The award-winning author of Fifteen Dogs conjures up worlds―real, invented, uncanny ―in this ingenious, electrifying collection. A Trinidadian obeah man finds himself reborn, a hundred years after his death, in the body of a Canadian child; a writer takes up a seasonal job as a caretaker for a set of mysterious large sacks hanging from the rafters of the houses in a small town;...(展开全部)