Never Leave Well Enough Alone was first published in 1951 at the height of Loewy's career. His company, Raymond Loewy Associates, served as design consultants to more than a hundred of the world's largest corporations, and products manufactured to their specifications sold in excess of $3 billion annually. Written and designed by Loewy, this profusely illustrated book is part a...(展开全部)

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst...(展开全部)

"If you're even thinking about a job search, start here." - Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group Based on 25 years of experience working with thousands of leaders - from early-career product managers to CEOs - Never Search Alone gives readers a time-tested, multi-step process (with exercises, tools, and templates) to find the right job now. Three big ideas animate Never Se...(展开全部)

Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. The key to our intelligence...(展开全部)

From master illustrator and storyteller Chabouté comes his internationally bestselling graphic novel Alone, featuring stunning black ink visuals—now available to American audiences for the first time! Every week, a boat bring supplies and leaves it on a tiny lighthouse island, only to have them later consumed by a unseen figure—a figure who seems mythological in his continual a...(展开全部)

With Overlook's new single-volume republication of Mervyn Peake's timeless Gormenghast novels in individual volumes, readers everywhere have embraced Titus Groan all over again. Peake's trilogy is an undisputed classic of epic fantasy, and finally Titus Alone , the final volume in the series, is available again. As the novel opens, Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdi...(展开全部)

The third of the bestselling Gormenghast trilogy. In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast,...(展开全部)

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist travel writer and novelist. Stella was noted for being compassionate and interested in social issues. Like her older female relatives, she supported women's suffrage. During World War I, she supported the troops by gardening and by helping poor women in London's East End at The Charity Organisation Society. These efforts inspire...(展开全部)

斯特拉·本森（Stella Benson，1892—1933），英国小说家、诗人、旅行作家。生于什罗普郡一个乡绅家庭。从小体弱多病，长期在家接受教育。7岁就为少儿杂志供稿，9岁开始写日记并坚持终生。成年后热心社会事务，积极为妇女争取权利。21岁离家到伦敦独立生活，其间参加过慈善工作。1915年凭小说《我假装》（I Pose）踏上文坛，后陆续出版小说、诗集、游记等十余部。自1918年起在世界四处漫游，曾与丈夫在中国生活多年。41岁死于肺炎。