Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means—whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the ways we use translation, from the historical ...(展开全部)

"Is That a Fish in Your Ear?" by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - and makes us who we are. Selected by "The New York Times" as one of the 100 Notab...(展开全部)

Two best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows legs and decides to explore the world beyond the pond. When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things he’s seen, the minnow, now a fish, tries to follow in his footsteps, but quickly finds that land is not what he expected. Friendship truly saves t...(展开全部)

[美] 李欧·李奥尼 1910年5月出生于荷兰阿姆斯特丹，父亲是比利时犹太商人，母亲是女高音歌唱家。因家在美术馆附近，舅舅们又是建筑师、画家和艺术品收藏家，所以他从小就得以浸润在浓郁的艺术氛围之中。13岁起，他随家人辗转美国、意大利。1935年获得经济学博士学位。1945年，欧洲掀起反犹太浪潮，他们被迫举家走避美国。 李奥尼是一个才华横溢、不受拘束的艺术天才，绘画、雕刻、平面设计、印刷、陶艺、摄影......样样精通，曾任美国《财富》杂志设计主管长达10年。其间，他多次在欧洲和美国举办个人画展、设计展，并曾担任美国平面造型艺术学会主席、1953年度国际设计大会主席。1955年获美国平面造型艺术协会最佳广告制作美术指导奖、1956年获建筑联盟金牌奖。1984年获颁美国平面造型艺术学会奖时，他受到这样的评价：他通过自己的艺术创作、设计创作，对设计领域的领...(展开全部)

How much should we trust the polls on the latest electoral campaign? When a physician tells us that a diagnosis of cancer is 90% certain or a nutritionist tells us what is healthy to eat, what should we believe? Questions such as these are greatly important, yet many of us have only a vague sense of how to answer them. In Is That a Fact?, Mark Battersby aims not only to explain...(展开全部)

One of Italy's brightest literary lights reinvents travel writing with a seductive, intoxicating celebration fo the magical saltwater city "Venice is a fish," writes Tiziano Scarpa. "It's like a vast sole stretched out against the deep. How did this marvelous beast make its way up the Adriatic and fetch up here, of all places?" Paying homage to his native city in a lyrical ...(展开全部)

One of Italy's brightest literary lights reinvents travel writing with a seductive, intoxicating celebration fo the magical saltwater city "Venice is a fish," writes Tiziano Scarpa. "It's like a vast sole stretched out against the deep. How did this marvelous beast make its way up the Adriatic and fetch up here, of all places?" Paying homage to his native city in a lyrical ...(展开全部)

萨曼莎·温伯格（Samantha Weinberg），英国记者、旅游作家、杂志编辑。温伯格出生于伦敦，毕业于剑桥大学三一学院，曾在南非、美国和伦敦担任记者，擅长非虚构创作。 卢静，中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所研究员，国家优秀青年基金获得者。主要从事古鱼类学，特别是早期硬骨鱼类演化、四足动物起源研究。 卢静自称“拉蒂迈鱼的粉丝”，而这份情缘的建立，便始于这本书。当年初入古生物学领域时，是这本书为她 “打开了新世界的大门”。受邀翻译简体中文版时，卢静老师欣然应允，不仅亲自打磨译文，提供拉蒂迈鱼的精彩复原图，而且倾情作序推荐：“‘拉蒂迈鱼’是一个铭刻在我心上的名字，我希望这个名字可以走进更多人心里。”

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II. From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when publishing is still largely a private af...(展开全部)

With humorous rhymes, six lovable animals help Lloyd the llama discover what kind of animal his mama is.