Thomas Chen is assistant professor of Chinese at Lehigh University.

Made in Japan -- Made in Japan—these three simple words conjure playful wit, a delight in detail, formal elegance, and graphic energy. Author of Made in China, Reed Darmon has collected hundreds of images of everyday Japanese design and pop culture ephemera from the past century. Including perfume ads, art deco matchboxes, robot toys, action movie posters, Noh masks, kimono pat...(展开全部)

布莱森是英国国宝级作家，著名非虚构作家，英国皇家学会荣誉院士，詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖等多个文学奖获得者。 他曾任英国杜伦大学校长，取得两所大学的文学博士学位、九所英国知名大学的荣誉博士学位。早年曾供职于《泰晤士报》《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》等撰文。 他尤其擅长人文历史、科普、游记类的写作，代表作有 《万物简史》《人体简史》 等。其中，科普巨著《万物简史》全球销量超千万册，简体中文版销量破百万册；中文版《人体简史》荣获2021年第十六届文津图书奖。

Made in China is a fun-filled, action-packed journey into the heart of Chinese pop culture. For Asia-philes, designers, and pop culture junkies, designer Reed Darmon has collected the most colorful (and in some cases, the kookiest) Chinese ephemera in this chunky paperback. Candy wrappers, firecrackers, Chairman Mao heads, and more! These objects are a testament to the age-old ...(展开全部)

"[A] wise and inspiring autobiography--Walton tells his quietly fantastic story with conviction and makes no bones about his mistakes." -- San Francisco Chronicle "It's a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there.  And it's a story about believing in your idea even when m...(展开全部)

從東京開始的都市建築冒險 建築物上有電車或道路穿梭、高速公路蜿蜒地跨在河川上空、車子可以開上直達大樓六樓屋頂的斜坡、住宅區中的高爾夫球練習場看起來就像個大籠子一樣……這些寡廉鮮恥的用途組合及空間構成，憑藉現代建築技術而出現在都市裡。可容許這種狀態存在的東京，到底是個什麼樣的城市？ 若以從事建築設計的價值觀為準，這個都市在人們眼前的映象只是充斥著該被唾棄的毫無價值的建築物。如果身邊淨是慘不忍睹的都市風景，那奉建築名作為圭臬只不過變成展示自己的興趣品味、擴張對漂亮照片的無謂憧憬而已。這樣下去連建築設計也立刻成為索然無味的無聊玩意兒罷了，讓人不禁悲觀地對未來失去信心。 但東京已經完全被上述所謂無價值的建築物所佔據了，也許我們不該逃避現實，而是思考如何將它們變成優點才對。若不能將己身周遭化為豐富的資源，就失去特地留在東京的意義了。作者意識到這種想法，開始思考...(展开全部)

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch.Here, finally, inimitable words.Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambit...(展开全部)

來到日都神社的慎平，對雁切真砂人提出許多疑問。就在這過程中，憤怒的影子潮砍斷了雁切的頭，但是…不是人類也不是影子的雁切真砂人的真面目到底是什麼？