珍妮•罗森（Jenny Lawson） 美国记者、专栏作家。 1973年出生于美国得克萨斯州，从小与抑郁症、焦虑症及多种障碍症抗争，2010年，她开始写博客，公开讲述自己与这些可怕事物朝夕相处的故事，而这从此改变了她观察生活的方式。她在不可能的地方发现乐趣，并用幽默的方式真诚地将它们讲述出来，为我们带来不可思议的欢笑与感动。 目前，珍妮著有3部文集，均为《纽约时报》畅销书，揽下许多奖项与榜单，收获千万读者的赞同与共鸣。 更多信息，请访问她的博客：TheBloggess.com

In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is th...(展开全部)

In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is th...(展开全部)

In this family, everyone is keeping secrets--especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don't come much richer than Fred and Sheila Mercer. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mercers are brutally murdered the night after an Easter Dinner with t...(展开全部)

Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasin...(展开全部)

If the fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women (who would not ordinarily look twice at Will) were willing to date him, then Will had it made. Inventing a son got him into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son -- a twelve-year-old with a lot to teach Will about being a grown up.

An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late nineteen-seventies that the buildup of carbon dioxide i...(展开全部)

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday li...(展开全部)

Acting as a first book of whales, A Book About Whales teaches young readers everything they need to know about the largest mammals on earth: how they have evolved over millions of years, what and how they eat, their migration patterns, and more! Andrea Antinori’s whimsical black-and-white illustrations bring their underwater world to life. The book discusses a variety of whales...(展开全部)

Pratt 学院院长，著有The Vision of Robert Flaherty:The Artist as Myth and Filmmaker,Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism,Filmguide to "Triumph of the Will"及In the Dark:A Primer of the Movies