Caldecott Award-winning author-artist Ed Emberley has created an ingenious way for children to chase away their nighttime fears. Kids can turn the pages of this die-cut book and watch the Big Green Monster grow. Then, when they're ready to show him who's in charge, they'll turn the remaining pages and watch him disappear! This lavish reissue features dramatic die-cut eyes and s...(展开全部)

Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today’s debates on religion, morality, politics, and science. ...(展开全部)

丽贝卡•戈尔茨坦（Rebecca Goldstein），哲学家兼小说家，美国国家人文奖章、麦克阿瑟天才奖得主。她在普林斯顿大学取得了博士学位，师从当代西方哲学领军人物托马斯•内格尔。 跟这本跨界奇书的主人公柏拉图一样，戈尔茨坦喜欢用文学形式表达哲学思想。她学科学哲学出身，研究心灵哲学、数学哲学、斯宾诺莎和哥德尔。在巴纳德学院 教授哲学期间，她利用一个暑假写出了小说《心身问题》，由此开启了跨界小说家之路，之后又凭借《黑暗的姐妹》《马泽尔》《光之属性：爱、背叛与量子物理学》《关于上帝存在的36个证明》等小说斩获不少文学奖项。 正如美国国家人文奖章的嘉奖词所说，戈尔茨坦“用学术研究阐明了斯宾诺莎和哥德尔的理念，用小说生动机智地展现出思想与感受的张力”。这位特立独行、善于用新颖方式传达哲学关怀的思想家与丈夫斯蒂芬•平克一起，居住在美国马萨诸塞州。

Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than thirty years ago. TullyandKate. You and me against the world. Best friends forever. But stories end, don't they? You lose the people you love and you have to find a way to go on. . . . Tully Har...(展开全部)

這本厚478 頁的《GOGO MONSTER》，是松本大洋2000年底出版的作品。在松本大洋歷年的作品中規格非常特殊，放在日本漫畫的脈絡中也非常少見：精裝、書盒、書邊刷色還網印圖案、厚度更是一般漫畫的三倍！整體看起來與其說是日漫，更像是歐美漫畫作品。此外，松本大洋創作本書時，未在漫畫期刊連載，而是埋首投入三年光陰，畫完成後直接成書出版。 松本大洋在受訪時曾表示，1997年結束了神作《乒乓》的連載後，因對日本漫畫週刊快速的連載速度感到疲憊，加上去了一趟法國安古蘭國際漫畫節，和法國漫畫名家墨必斯、德魁西等人交流後受到很大刺激，對於歐洲漫畫作者在劇情和畫面表現方式，以及構思單一作品的創作速度感到羨慕，《GOGO MONSTER》便是他嘗試跳脫日漫連載的創作模式，深入挖掘內心所創作出的深沉之作。 本書找來日本裝幀大師祖父江慎設計，漫畫內容其實從精裝書封就開始...(展开全部)

A Walk on the Widers Side Other people die of mumps Or general decay, Of fevers, chills or other ills But Wilders walk away. That's the little ditty they all sing in the quaintly picturesque New England village of Wilders Lane. That's part of the mystery too, of course. You see from pre-Revolutionary War times on, members of the Wilder family never die; they walk way-disappear ...(展开全部)

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illumination, “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we...(展开全部)

A Walk on the Widers Side Other people die of mumps Or general decay, Of fevers, chills or other ills But Wilders walk away. That's the little ditty they all sing in the quaintly picturesque New England village of Wilders Lane. That's part of the mystery too, of course. You see from pre-Revolutionary War times on, members of the Wilder family never die; they walk way-disappear ...(展开全部)

A former captain in the Marines First Recon Battalion， who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq， reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle.If the Marines are "the few， the proud，" Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon， charged with working clandestinely， often behin...(展开全部)