Eliot’s famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.

“A flawless compendium of flaws.” —Alice Roberts, PhD, anatomist, writer, and presenter of The Incredible Human Journey The antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a muc...(展开全部)

“A flawless compendium of flaws.” —Alice Roberts, PhD, anatomist, writer, and presenter of The Incredible Human Journey The antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals! Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a muc...(展开全部)

主编 詹姆斯·拉文(JamesRaven)，英国国家学术院院士，剑桥大学莫德林学院院士，创桥书籍项目信托基金会主任，埃塞克斯大学现代史荣休教授。 译者 李家真，川人，一九七二年生，曾任《中国文学》执行主编及《英语学习》副主编。写有大量随笔，译有《泰戈尔英文诗集全集》《纪伯伦诗集》《丘吉尔传》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《王尔德小说童话全集》《培根随笔全集》《瓦尔登湖》《两河一周》《鳕鱼海岬》《缅因森林》《呆厮国志》《论人》《论批评·云鬓劫》等作品。

Cats have been revered by artists since ancient times for their beauty, grace, independence and air of mystery. Domesticated, but with a touch of the wild about them, they share our homes and endlessly fascinate us. The Book of the Cat is a cool and quirky collection of feline art and illustration by artists from around the world. Interspersed through the illustrations are shor...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by David McCullough, 1776: The Illustrated Edition brings 140 powerful images and 37 removable replicas of source documents to this remarkable drama. In 1776, David McCullough's bestselling account of a pivotal year in our nation's struggle, readers learned of the greatest defeats, providential fortune, and courageous triumphs of George Washington and ...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by David McCullough, 1776: The Illustrated Edition brings 140 powerful images and 37 removable replicas of source documents to this remarkable drama. In 1776, David McCullough's bestselling account of a pivotal year in our nation's struggle, readers learned of the greatest defeats, providential fortune, and courageous triumphs of George Washington and ...(展开全部)

多麗絲·萊辛（Doris Lessing, 1919- ），英國現當代最重要的作家之一。生於波斯（今伊朗），5歲時隨家人遷往南非羅德西亞（今津巴布韋）。萊辛的童年是在農場中度過的。 1949 年，萊辛攜帶她的第一部小說手稿初回英國。這部題為《青草在歌唱》的小說是她的處女作，於1950年在英國出版，一舉成功，並同時在美國及十個歐洲國家出版發行。她的國際聲譽亦由此建立，創作一發而不可收。 不僅她的長篇小說，她的幻想小說以及短篇小說的創作也取得了令人矚目的成就。其中，短篇小說集《五》獲得薩默塞特·毛姆文學獎。1981年獲奧地利的歐洲文學國家獎，1982年獲得德意志莎士比亞文學獎，代表作有五卷本的《暴力的孩子》系列、《金色筆記》、《黑暗來臨前的夏季》、《倖存者的回憶錄》等。短篇小說則多收入了《第十九號房間》及《傑克·奧尼爾的誘惑》兩部集子中。五卷本的小說系列...(展开全部)

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text su...(展开全部)