FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Thompson's ( The Paper Bag Prince ) haunting picture book is both serious and witty. The deceptively simple story opens with the death of the young narrator's grandfather, a raffish sailor. Responding to the death, Titanic the parrot says, "Hello, sailor," a contrary comment that sets up the narrator's contrarily successful search for mythical Atlantis. It is all around, Grandf...(展开全部)

Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored. But, not by the great seventeenth century Dutch philosopher Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. In this book, Dr Damasio draws on ...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Alec Soth‘s photobook 'Looking for Love, 1996', including his photo series of the same name, looks back to the time of the beginning, the time when everything is still open and exciting, when everything gently falls into place. It‘s the phase of the beginning, that forms the basis not only of a new love, but also of each new photographic project. It‘s a book about searching, ab...(展开全部)

作者簡介 喬治．培瑞克Georges Perec 法國籍波蘭猶太裔作家，在巴黎出生，也在巴黎去世，一生大半的作品脫離不了巴黎城市的空間探索，如一九六五年出版的第一本小說《東西》（Les Choses）以及一九七八年的巨著《生活使用指南》（La vie mode d''emploi）皆以巴黎為據點。前者受到荷諾多文壇新人獎（Prix Renaudot）的肯定，後者完成於他創作的高峰，獲頒梅迪奇文學獎（Prix Médicis）。在他短暫的四十六年生命中，創作力驚人，所撰文類包括小說、詩、戲劇、評論散文和隨筆，每部作品在題材和寫法風格上皆各自不同。也曾參與廣播製作及電影編導。在臺灣目前已出版的中文譯作還有《W或童年回憶》（W ou le souvenir d''enfance）及《傭兵隊長》（Le Condottière）。 培瑞克曾將其創作分為四大同等...(展开全部)

作者簡介 喬治．培瑞克Georges Perec 法國籍波蘭猶太裔作家，在巴黎出生，也在巴黎去世，一生大半的作品脫離不了巴黎城市的空間探索，如一九六五年出版的第一本小說《東西》（Les Choses）以及一九七八年的巨著《生活使用指南》（La vie mode d''emploi）皆以巴黎為據點。前者受到荷諾多文壇新人獎（Prix Renaudot）的肯定，後者完成於他創作的高峰，獲頒梅迪奇文學獎（Prix Médicis）。在他短暫的四十六年生命中，創作力驚人，所撰文類包括小說、詩、戲劇、評論散文和隨筆，每部作品在題材和寫法風格上皆各自不同。也曾參與廣播製作及電影編導。在臺灣目前已出版的中文譯作還有《W或童年回憶》（W ou le souvenir d''enfance）及《傭兵隊長》（Le Condottière）。 培瑞克曾將其創作分為四大同等...(展开全部)

Que feriez-vous si d'un coup vous vous aperceviez que vous ne vivez plus qu'un jour sur deux ? C'est ce qui arrive à Lubin Maréchal, un jeune homme d'une vingtaine d'années qui, sans qu'il n'en ait le moindre souvenir, se réveille chaque matin alors qu'un jour entier vient de s'écouler. Il découvre alors que pendant ces absences, une autre personnalité prend possession de son c...(展开全部)

One of Andrew Wyeth's most important paintings, "Wind from the Sea" (1947), is also the artist's first full realization of the window as a recurring subject in his art. Wyeth returned to windows during the course of the next 60 years, producing more than 300 remarkable works that explore both the formal and conceptual richness of the subject. Absent from these spare, elegant, a...(展开全部)

In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet hundreds of years and many significant scientific advances later, the neurobiological roots of joy and sorrow remain a mystery. Today, we spend countless resources doctoring our feelings with alcohol, prescription drugs, health clubs, therapy, vacation retreat...(展开全部)