A meticulously researched, highly entertaining, idiosyncratic look at the how, why and what of bad language around the world

作者 彼得·西斯（Peter Sis），美国著名艺术家，身兼画家、作家、插画家、设计师、电影导演；曾荣获麦克阿瑟荣誉奖章、柏林电影节金熊奖、凯迪克奖、纽伯瑞奖、美国插画家协会金奖、《纽约时报》书评周刊年度最佳儿童图书奖……加诸彼得·西斯身上的荣誉，难以计数。仅以《纽约时报》书 评周刊年度最佳图画书而论，二十年中他竟“霸占”了三分之一强，《玛德琳卡》《玛德琳卡的狗》《生命之树》《飞行员与小王子》四次为他带来 “年度最佳儿童图书”的荣誉。2012年，彼得·西斯荣获得国际安徒生插画奖。 译者 柳漾，新浪微博“柳树在说话”，儿童文学工作者。本职编辑，业余时间喜欢与书打交道，写书评、做翻译，翻译的作品有图画书《和朋友一起想办法》《爱打嗝的斑马》《不会唱歌的小鸟》《青蛙王子变形记》《走开，大黑兔！》《罗丝的花园》《北极星》《不来梅的音乐家》《玛德琳过圣诞》《动物...(展开全部)

"Listen." A little boy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is playing the piano. "Look." He is playing backward He is playing blindfolded "Imagine." What must his life be like? " Play, Mozart, play " Acclaimed artist Peter Sis introduces very young children to the child genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in this picture book tribute to the beauty of listening, looking, imagini...(展开全部)

Synopsis What mattered most to Tove Jansson, she explained in her eighties, was work and love, a sentiment she echoes in this tender and original novel. Translated for the first time into English, "Fair Play" portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island. In...(展开全部)

A New York Review Books Original Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Two women, both artists, no longer young, live and work on opposite sides of a large apartment building, their studios connected by an attic passageway. They have loved and argued for decades, long enough to anticipate the other's next words and to guess her next move. Yet no matter how man...(展开全部)

Through the eyes of the author's nine-year-old daughter, the sequel to The Armchair Economist makes learning the rudiments of such economic matters as supply and demand, interest rates, and the Federal Reserve simple and fun. 25,000 first printing.

Through the eyes of the author's nine-year-old daughter, the sequel to The Armchair Economist makes learning the rudiments of such economic matters as supply and demand, interest rates, and the Federal Reserve simple and fun. 25,000 first printing.

他媽是怎麼想出這定理的？──畢達哥拉斯 我想幹他媽的不會下雨吧，你說呢？──聖女貞德 這幅幹他媽的畫明明就很像她！──畢卡索 你要我在幹他媽的天花板上畫什麼？──米開蘭基羅 他媽的這麼多水是哪兒來的？──鐵達尼號船長 這不是幹他媽的真槍吧？──約翰?藍儂 十二髒肖──幹、屄∕雞巴、屎、尿（piss）、嬲（bugger）、天殺的（bloody）和屁股（arse），再加上該死（damn）、地獄（hell）、屁（fart）、大便（crap）和屌（dick）──為許多不同的言辭行動提供資源。這十二個字詞經常操勞過度，服侍許多不同的主子。 身為語言學家的作者曾說：「每當遇上新辭典，我都用幹這個字當基本測試。我首先直接翻到F字部，找出幹，看看辭典怎麼說。如果書上的定義不令人滿意，不符合我對這個字在現實生活中各種行動脈絡裡實際用法的了...(展开全部)