A humorous new book from the acclaimed author-illustrator Shinsuke Yoshitake. Everyone has something that makes them feel self-conscious. It might be the smell of your breath, the size of your nose, or the way your shirt sleeves bunch up under your jumper. At the centre of this story is a little boy who has a small but embarrassing problem: every time he pees, a few drops dribb...(展开全部)

You have a great idea. It is so obviously great that you’re hardly going to have to explain it to people. This delightful little book will teach you to become a better communicator of ideas and an inspired motivator of people, both personally and professionally.

You have a great idea. It is so obviously great that you’re hardly going to have to explain it to people. This delightful little book will teach you to become a better communicator of ideas and an inspired motivator of people, both personally and professionally.

Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It Is, she has expanded the limits of the form. Her stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the W...(展开全部)

The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Fine Just The Way It Is' marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of 'Brokeback Mountain' and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebru...(展开全部)

艾莉森·简出生于英国的翰弗郡，长在德比郡。她就读于伦敦大学的平面设计专业，学习了绘画与专业插画的技巧，并以全班第一名的成绩毕业，之后就职于一家动漫工作室。 这样过了一两年，她决定改变职业方向，开始了插画家的职业生涯。现在她的插画作品遍布于各个领域，包括设计、广告、项目，以及她最热爱的童书创作。目前她正与阿德曼动画公司（Ardman Animation）合作，制作新版本的《胡桃夹子》动画电影。 艾莉森的画作非常具有特点，她利用一种叫做Alkyd（醇酸树脂）的油画颜料作画，在画布表面做一层快速涂抹，干了就会形成类似于龟裂的仿旧效果。很多小读者将她的画作可爱地称为“碎蛋壳画”。她在创作插画中非常注重趣味性，每张图之间都会暗藏承上启下的线索，并将大家耳熟能详的童话故事融入其中，使插画能够无限地延伸，增大了阅读的自主和自由度。 “让想象飞”是其代表作品，其中《...(展开全部)

Poems deal with solitude, silence, artists, death, aging, friends, hard times, gambling, music, and genius.

In JUST LISTEN, veteran psychiatrist and business coach Mark Goulston reveals the secret to how to get through to anyone, even when productive communication seems impossible, and presents remarkably effective tools and techniques you can use whenever a job, a sale, or a relationship hangs in the balance. Goulston has proven these strategies during his own 30-year career as a bu...(展开全部)

Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work.