Professor Derek Rutledge is hated and feared by all of his students. Strict, reserved and ruthless, he doesn't tolerate mistakes and has little patience for his students. Shawn Wyatt is a twenty-year-old struggling to provide for his younger sisters after the death of their parents. On the verge of losing his scholarship, Shawn becomes desperate enough to go to Professor Rutled...(展开全部)

Stockholm syndrome or Love? When you want someone completely wrong for you… Luke Whitford has always dreamed of meeting Mr. Right. A hopeless romantic at heart, he dreams of falling in love with a nice man, getting married, and having a bunch of adorable babies. The problem is, Luke has the propensity for being attracted to men who are anything but nice. Roman Demidov, a homoph...(展开全部)

克里斯·霍顿 来自爱尔兰，这是一个让诸多插画师和设计师青睐有加的名字。克里斯·霍顿从事自由插画与设计创作已经有12年了，曾为英国《卫报》《独立报》以及其他出版机构绘制插画。他还是一个创意无限的童书作家，为全世界的孩子创作图画书。 他的三部作品《小小迷路了》《别这样，小乖！》《嘘！我们有个计划》深受各国评审和孩子的青睐，已经被翻译成19种语言，先后在9个国家揽获十余项大奖。不论是童书作家还是设计师，克里斯·霍顿都是一个不应该被忘记的名字。

'I was the Fool-king of Soho and the number-one slag in the Groucho Club, the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band. This was no disaster, though. It was a dream coming true.' For Alex James, music had always been a door to a more eventful life. But as bass player of Blur ? one of the most successful British bands of all time ? his journey was more exciting and ex...(展开全部)

2002,2003年にかけて写真新世紀、エプソンカラーイメージングコンテストでグランプリを獲得。その才能は、森山大道にして「圧倒的」と言わしめる実力派。東京をはじめとした諸国の首都界隈で窃視的にスナップを繰り返し、累計10万ヒットを記録する自身のホームページに連日掲載。デジタル写真特有の色や質感から立ち上る鮮烈な存在感。満を持したデビュー作。 「僕が感じるデジタル写真のリアリティとは、野蛮で際限なく外部へと向かっていく衝動のようなものだ。」(著者あとがきより)

What can happen in just a second, a minute, or an hour? How can we measure time? The flap of a vulture's wing. A crocodile's heartbeat. The weight of a baby blue whale. The life of a mayfly. These increments of time may sound a bit strange, but they are all fascinating ways in which we can think about time. But what exactly is time? In "Just a Second", the award-winning author-...(展开全部)

Young Walter litters and refuses to sort trash for recycling, until he dreams of an overcrowded and polluted future which terrifies him into taking care of the earth.

Walter is a litterbug who does not appreciate the beauty of nature, or understand his role in keeping the planet healthy . . . until a fantastic journey shows him the tragic fate that could befall Earth if humans like him are not more careful. Are Walter’s actions really helping his planet along the road to destruction, or is it all just a dream? Chris Van Allsburg’s classic ...(展开全部)

William Trevor is truly a Chekhov for our age, and a new collection of stories from him is always a cause for celebration. In these twelve stories, a waiter divulges a shocking life of crime to his ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parentsa unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy; a schoolgirl regrets gossiping about the cuckolded man who tutors her; and, in the volu...(展开全部)