With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intellige...(展开全部)

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.

With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intellige...(展开全部)

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences....(展开全部)

编号223（林志鹏），1979年生于中国广东，现居于北京。223试图通过摄影呈现中国当代年轻人的活动和精神面貌，在他的镜头之下，这享受爱情和生活的中国年轻一代，就在情欲、喜悦、傲慢和玩乐间摇摆。 《花与果》是一系列鲜花和水果的照片，亦是223作为主题多次拍摄的元素。新鲜的花朵和水果娇艳而又满溢生命力，然而腐烂之后又异常丑陋。 223有意识地表现鲜花和水果，但当我们再次回想起这些图像来时，会发现其中有许多是被无意识地反映出来的。鲜花和水果，就像摇曳的青春，也象征着终将走向死亡的生命，它们都是迷人的。带有瞬间光晕的鲜花和水果，就像那些正在绽放的年轻人。

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise i...(展开全部)

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to wha...(展开全部)

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to wha...(展开全部)

Review by Ann Copeland: "Patti Smith's foreword, "A Final Flower," is a poetic tribute to the late photographer whose recent retrospective exhibition sparked a national legal debate over censorship in the arts. Smith's observation that Mapplethorpe embraced "the flower as the embodiment of all the contradictions reveling within," and in these photographs "found it was as easy t...(展开全部)

「男が好きなら、俺としてみない?」アパートの 隣人でモデルの誠に、誘われてしまった亮。 もしかして俺ってゲイなの…? カラダ先行の 関係に戸惑う亮だけど、誠の想いは真剣らしい。 しかもある日、美貌の隣人・南野からも手を 出されてしまった！！ 年上の男二人は無垢な亮を 可愛がるように迫ってきて！? セクシャルラブ?