Best-selling Taiwanese illustrator Jimmy Liao teams up with renowned British author Joyce Dunbar to present a fantastical, heartwarming tale. Why can’t Jo-Jo go to sleep? He doesn''t like the darkness under the bed — a monster might be hiding there. And one is! It's a tiny speck of a monster with a huge appetite for darkness, gobbling it up under the bed, in every nook and cr...(展开全部)

“There is so much at play in this wondrous novel. Vi, struggling to place herself in any context that makes sense within the world, earnestly leads us into a wild experiment, to turn a blob into the man of her dreams, and I was transfixed by her voice. This is a book that looks at identity and desire in profoundly interesting ways.” — Kevin Wilson, bestselling author of Now Is...(展开全部)

Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its original home in cultural anthropology to fields such as sociology, marketing, media studies, law, cri...(展开全部)

Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its original home in cultural anthropology to fields such as sociology, marketing, media studies, law, cri...(展开全部)

We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don't a...(展开全部)

It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders, ten years apart. To make matters worse, a new nemesis pays Elizabeth a visit, presenting her with a deadl...(展开全部)

When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota in particular, were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However, the full power of lean principles was unproven, and they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today, the power of lean production has b...(展开全部)

When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota in particular, were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However, the full power of lean principles was unproven, and they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today, the power of lean production has b...(展开全部)

幾米第一本童书 幾米第一次与国外作者合作的作品 今期待已久幾米与英国作者乔依丝．唐巴(Joyce Dunbar)合作的第一本英文童书《吃掉黑暗的怪兽》中译版上市了！ 英文原版已于今年10月在英、美两国发行并受到出版界注目。美国着名童书评论家Leonard S. Marcus在11月9号出版的The New York Times Sunday Book Review 专栏中对此书及幾米绘画风格给予很高的评价。《吃掉黑暗的怪兽》是幾米第一次与西方作者合作并为儿童所创作的绘本作品。希望幾米迷与新朋友都会喜欢！ 这个故事描述一个小男孩在夜里睡不着。 他觉得，黑漆漆的床底下，躲了一只怪兽…… 哇，仔细一看，床底下真的有一只小怪兽耶。 这只怪兽老是觉得肚子饿，好饿好饿，饿得不得了！ 小怪兽到处找东西吃。你猜，他吃的是什么？ 他在吃「黑暗」！他到处吃呀吃，越吃，身...(展开全部)