In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized. From her evocative portrait...(展开全部)

In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized. From her evocative portrait...(展开全部)

芭芭拉．妮克莉絲 Barbara Nickless 美國推理作家協會成員。在許多寫作討論會與書展中都曾開設工作坊及發表演說。短篇小說與短文曾收錄於美國與英國的選集中。目前與家人住在科羅拉多州。《軌道殺人事件》是她的首部長篇力作，以其熟稔的寫作風格，結合驚悚、愛情、反戰、道德兩難等元素，未出版前就榮獲達芙妮．莫里哀獎「未出版」類別的最佳主流推理大獎，並獲得克雷默爾獎第二名。

Chief Inspector William Read, now working for the police department in Victoria, Australia, once again enlists the help of his old friend, freelance sleuth Jeffery Blackburn, to help him solve the grisly murder of High Court Judge Sir Merton Tenison Sheldon, in Melbourne. Sheldon's murder involves a classic locked room puzzle. As if this weren't enough channlenge for Read and B...(展开全部)

Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhorta uses a fable involving a different set of mice in a maze-mice who question everything-to help readers see how they underestimate their ability change the rules, overcome the constraints they face, and control their own destiny.

Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhorta uses a fable involving a different set of mice in a maze-mice who question everything-to help readers see how they underestimate their ability change the rules, overcome the constraints they face, and control their own destiny.

Summary Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems. This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley–led technophilia. This b...(展开全部)

A psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting issues joins forces with a physician and bestselling author to tackle one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time -- peers replacing parents in the lives of our children. Dr. Neufeld has dubbed this phenomenon peer orientation, which refers to the tendency of children a...(展开全部)

Summary Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems. This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley–led technophilia. This b...(展开全部)

Uncle Three loves good food, good booze, good card games, and bad women–and he’s never found a grave he wouldn’t rob. He can’t help it–it’s in his blood–grave robbing has been the family business for centuries. So when his bookseller nephew comes to him with a map to an ancient tomb, Uncle Three sets off to find it, in the company of some grave-robbing colleagues, his nerdy nep...(展开全部)