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)

For courses in Fashion Illustration, Fashion Sketching and Figure Drawing. This book is a guide to drawing modern fashion for all levels of students; from beginners to advanced. It aims to teach how to draw fashion, to a level where virtually any type of garment can be drawn on the fashion figure. It also to serve as a reference work for specific information on all types of fa...(展开全部)

成濑纯一：普通的相貌、普通的经历、普通的工作、普通的性格，典型的到哪里都随处可见的那种人。工作两年，不好不坏，性格懦弱……唯一比较拿手的就是画画，并在买画材的时候认识了在油画店工作的小惠，然后象普通人一样陷入热恋。本该充满着幸福与宁静的生活，却被始料不及的一宗抢劫事件打乱——为了救一名小女孩，成濑被抢劫犯用枪射杀！ 醒来后的成濑被告知由于发生了亿分之一的奇迹，医院用刚好死去的别人的右脑移植到他遭枪击，受到破坏的右脑，手术奇迹般地成功。苏醒过来后，虽说有医生的详细解说和安慰，但自己的大脑有一半是别人的，有别人存在于自己的脑中。带着这份疑问的成濑忐忑不安地回到阔别已久的工作岗位和爱人身边，可慢慢地，他发现自己的身心正逐步发生一些变化，于是他决定要调查捐赠者的生前事迹以及为何自己会越来越暴躁的真正原因……

东野圭吾，日本著名作家，1958年生于大阪，直木奖、推理作家协会奖、江户川乱步奖、本格推理小说大奖等日本重要文学奖项得主，出道20余年来作品逾60部。 早期作品多为精巧细致的本格推理，随着写作功底浸润日深，涉及领域也不断延伸，对社会现象的剖析日渐精微。后期笔锋越发老辣，文字鲜加雕琢，叙述简练凶狠，情节跌宕诡异，故事架构几至匪夷所思的地步，擅长从极不合理之处写出极合理的故事，功力之深令人瞠目骇然。

Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting. Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner' - handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, ...(展开全部)

This is another beautifully illustrated and highly original story from the author of the "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "The Bad-Tempered Ladybird". The artist begins by drawing a star, then the star asks him to draw a sun, and the sun asks him to draw a tree and soon the artist has drawn a whole world. As children follow Eric Carle's words and pictures, they will learn to u...(展开全部)

Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting. Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner' - handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, ...(展开全部)

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me. As I wrote Finding ...(展开全部)