Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the story of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of the role that loss and discovery play in all of our lives. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and su...(展开全部)

From the rising star of children's picture books comes the magical tale of friendship and loneliness, a boy and a penguin. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row...(展开全部)

Award-winning picture book about an unlikely friendship against all odds. International best-seller and Blue Peter Book of the Year 2006 -- now in gorgeous miniature gift edition. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to ...(展开全部)

斯塔兹•特克尔（Studs Terkel，1912-2008） 1985年，获得美国新闻界最高荣誉普利策奖； 1997年，克林顿夫妇亲自为他颁发当年的美国国家人文勋章； 1999年，获得美国新闻界殊荣乔治•波克奖； 2004年，获得美国的最高荣誉林肯勋章； 2006年，被授予戴顿文学和平奖终身成就奖。 美国“口述实录体”开创者、历史学界泰斗、11部口述历史专著作家。 特克尔将交谈与倾听作为毕生事业。他花了82年，选择那些从未有过话语权的人，倾听他们的生活和梦想。迄今为止，还没有人比他做得更好。他因此被尊称为“美国普通民众心声的记录者”。 此外，特克尔在芝加哥WFMT电台主持一档以他名字命名的广播节目长达45年，是美国家喻户晓的文化名人。

Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bo...(展开全部)

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head’s preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapita...(展开全部)

the best book of noofiction to come out of India......Bombay/Mumbai

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives...(展开全部)

Two turtles have found a hat. The hat looks good on both of them. But there are two turtles. And there is only one hat. . . . Evoking hilarity and sympathy, the shifting eyes tell the tale in this brilliantly paced story in three parts, highlighting Jon Klassen’s visual comedy and deceptive simplicity. The delicious buildup takes an unexpected turn that is sure to please loyal ...(展开全部)

文·图/ 【美】乔恩·克拉森（Jon Klassen） 乔恩·克拉森，1981年出生于加拿大，目前定居美国加州洛杉矶市。他曾经为动画长片、音乐录像带和杂志书刊等绘图，是一位知名的插画家和设计师。他曾在梦工厂动画制片公司、莱卡动画公司工作，并为英国广播公司设计2010年在温哥华举办的冬季奥运会广告动画，赢得英国动画奖——影艺学院奖。 2010年，他以Cats' Night Out荣获加拿大总督奖插画奖。2011年，他的第一本自写自画的作品《我要把我的帽子找回来》，获得2012年苏斯博士奖银奖，荣登《纽约时报》畅销书榜。他也成为童书界最受瞩目的新星。《这不是我的帽子》分别于2013年、2014年获得有绘本界“奥斯卡奖”之称的凯迪克金奖和凯特·格林纳威大奖，包揽近20个奖项。由他绘图的《穿毛衣的小镇》获得2013年凯迪克银奖。2015年，他与麦克·巴内特合...(展开全部)