Swamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Club soda or sparkling water? From food to fashion, ethics to architecture, there are thousands of words and ideas that we tend to collapse, conflate, or confuse. For hairsplitters and language lovers, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions explores the world of the vanishingly small, offering up witty deep dives and lively illustrations to help sharpen t...(展开全部)

藻泽与苔沼有何不同？内疚与羞愧如何区分？苏打水与气泡水是一回事吗？从饮食到时尚，从伦理到建筑，成千上万的词语和概念常被我们混为一谈、模糊处理或混淆不清。这本为咬文嚼字者和语言爱好者打造的《微妙差异词典》，邀您探访纤毫毕现的语义世界，以妙趣横生的深度探究与生动插画，助您厘清微妙差别，让思考变得清晰透彻。 "绝妙的构想，精彩的呈现。以后每次喝拿铁，都会想到这本书！ 读起来真是一种享受。" ——语言学家、《剑桥语言百科全书》作者戴维·克里斯特尔 "马克·吐温曾建言：'要用确切的词，而非其隔代表亲。'埃利·伯恩斯坦这部令人愉悦的著作，恰能在需要精微辨义时助您找到最贴切的词汇。它甚至能帮您厘清亲戚关系：堂表亲与隔代表亲究竟有何区别？答案尽在书中！" ——《华尔街日报》语言专栏作家本·齐默 "犹如模糊影像逐渐对焦，英语中精微差异的辨析让我们更清晰地观察世界。埃利...(展开全部)

In every way, this book is a fresh and daring perspective on the natural world and those that live in it. By removing colour from the visual element, the viewer is encouraged to interact directly with each image on a subjective level and to take from it a uniquely personal experience. The text is in caption format, and helps create a multilayered work that hints at both poetry ...(展开全部)

In every way, this book is a fresh and daring perspective on the natural world and those that live in it. By removing colour from the visual element, the viewer is encouraged to interact directly with each image on a subjective level and to take from it a uniquely personal experience. The text is in caption format, and helps create a multilayered work that hints at both poetry ...(展开全部)

From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfull...(展开全部)

西蒙•温切斯特（Simon Winchester，中文名文思淼），英国著名作家、记者。1944年生，1966年牛津大学地质系毕业后，担任《卫报》（Guardian）及《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times）的海外特派员。为《纽约时报》、《史密森学会月刊》（Smithsonian）、《观察家》（Spectator）、《国家地理杂志》、BBC等媒体撰稿。主要作品有：《OED的故事》（The Meaning of Everything）、《世界边缘的裂缝》（A Crack in the Edge of the World）、《喀拉喀托火山爆发记》（Krakatoa）、《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Changed the World），以及《世界中央的河流》（The River at the Center of the World）、《...(展开全部)

Eviatar Zerubavel argues that most of the distinctions we make in our daily lives and in our culture are social constructs. He questions the notion that a clear line can be drawn to separate one time or object or concept from another, and presents witty and provocative counterexamples in defense of ambiguity and anomaly.

E L James is a former TV executive, wife and mother of two based in West London. Since early childhood she dreamed of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey.

One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. Lina hopes for her family. For her country. Fo...(展开全部)