Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bo...(展开全部)

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head’s preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapita...(展开全部)

Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures p...(展开全部)

Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures p...(展开全部)

成濑纯一：普通的相貌、普通的经历、普通的工作、普通的性格，典型的到哪里都随处可见的那种人。工作两年，不好不坏，性格懦弱……唯一比较拿手的就是画画，并在买画材的时候认识了在油画店工作的小惠，然后象普通人一样陷入热恋。本该充满着幸福与宁静的生活，却被始料不及的一宗抢劫事件打乱——为了救一名小女孩，成濑被抢劫犯用枪射杀！ 醒来后的成濑被告知由于发生了亿分之一的奇迹，医院用刚好死去的别人的右脑移植到他遭枪击，受到破坏的右脑，手术奇迹般地成功。苏醒过来后，虽说有医生的详细解说和安慰，但自己的大脑有一半是别人的，有别人存在于自己的脑中。带着这份疑问的成濑忐忑不安地回到阔别已久的工作岗位和爱人身边，可慢慢地，他发现自己的身心正逐步发生一些变化，于是他决定要调查捐赠者的生前事迹以及为何自己会越来越暴躁的真正原因……

东野圭吾，日本著名作家，1958年生于大阪，直木奖、推理作家协会奖、江户川乱步奖、本格推理小说大奖等日本重要文学奖项得主，出道20余年来作品逾60部。 早期作品多为精巧细致的本格推理，随着写作功底浸润日深，涉及领域也不断延伸，对社会现象的剖析日渐精微。后期笔锋越发老辣，文字鲜加雕琢，叙述简练凶狠，情节跌宕诡异，故事架构几至匪夷所思的地步，擅长从极不合理之处写出极合理的故事，功力之深令人瞠目骇然。

埃勒里·奎因(ELLERY QUEEN)是曼弗雷德·本宁顿·李(Manfred Bennington Lee，1905-1971)和弗雷德里克·丹奈(Frederic Dannay，1905-1982)这对表兄弟合作的笔名。是历史上最伟大的推理小说家之一。 从1929年到1971年，埃勒里·奎因发表了数十部推理小说，其中最为有名、也最具代表性的便是“国名系列”了。奎因和他的“国名系列”小说早已成了推理小说史上的一个不可逾越的高峰。 1941年，奎因创办了《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》，按照他的话来说，《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》是要将侦探小说从通俗文学提升为正统的文学形式。通过提供这样一个实践的场所来鼓励我们中间的人写出更好的作品，培养和发展更多新的作家。直至今日，《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》仍是这一领域的翘楚。 由于对推理文学的巨大...(展开全部)

An ordinary trip to the shop becomes an extraordinary adventure for Steven as he encounters all sorts of hazards on his way home and has to use his wits to overcome them.

As seen on Nick Jr! A new storybook based on Maisy’s hit TV series is here, just in time for the crazy-for-Maisy preschoolers who have been clamoring for more. In MAISY GOES SHOPPING, Charley and our favorite mouse make a trip to the grocery store to buy lots of goodies for lunch. Wherever they go and whatever they do, Lucy Cousins’s lovable characters are a delight. Catch t...(展开全部)