作者简介：埃米·赫斯特（Amy Hest） 美国图画书作家，现居纽约。埃米说，她所创作的故事都是当她自己是个孩子的时候想要读到的。写作之余，埃米喜欢散步、骑自行车、看电影和读书。代表作有《晚安吻》《紫色上衣》《当杰西穿过大海》《给里欧写信》等。她曾三次荣获克里斯多夫奖。 绘者简介：珍妮·德斯蒙德（Jenni Desmond） 英国艺术家和插画家，新锐儿童图画书创作者。她毕业于英国的萨塞克斯大学，主修英语和艺术史，并于2006年获得学士学位，后又在安格利亚鲁斯金大学剑桥艺术学院学习，于2011年获得了儿童图书绘画专业硕士学位。 珍妮的作品有《跑得太快的斑马》《流星划过天空的夜晚》《艾尔的树》等。她使用颜料、墨水、蜡笔和拼贴手法进行创作，再用电脑扫描和编辑，尽力让她的画作悦目、漂亮和有趣。她的作品获得了2013年"一看再看"剑桥儿童图画书奖，也获颁英国国...(展开全部)

作者簡介 蘇‧勞伊德•羅伯茨（Sue Lloyd-Roberts） 獲獎無數的新聞記者，獲得的榮譽包括歐洲女性成就獎（European Woman of Achievement）、年度國際記者獎（International Reporter of the Year Award）、聯合國「女性行動獎：為女性移民和女性難民而戰」（Move Award），並以紀錄片《深入北韓泡影》（Inside the North Korean Bubble）獲得艾美獎。羅伯茨以其在BBC電視台記者生涯的非凡貢獻與成就於2013年獲頒大英帝國司令勳章一枚。 ●「同世代的電視記者中最為出色的一人。」──休‧愛德華茲（Huw Edwards） ●「才華洋溢、努力不懈。」──傑瑞米‧鮑溫（Jeremy Bowen） ●「她的身上具備著所謂的道德勇氣，並將這項特質傳遞其他的人。」...(展开全部)

作者簡介 蘇‧勞伊德•羅伯茨（Sue Lloyd-Roberts） 獲獎無數的新聞記者，獲得的榮譽包括歐洲女性成就獎（European Woman of Achievement）、年度國際記者獎（International Reporter of the Year Award）、聯合國「女性行動獎：為女性移民和女性難民而戰」（Move Award），並以紀錄片《深入北韓泡影》（Inside the North Korean Bubble）獲得艾美獎。羅伯茨以其在BBC電視台記者生涯的非凡貢獻與成就於2013年獲頒大英帝國司令勳章一枚。 ●「同世代的電視記者中最為出色的一人。」──休‧愛德華茲（Huw Edwards） ●「才華洋溢、努力不懈。」──傑瑞米‧鮑溫（Jeremy Bowen） ●「她的身上具備著所謂的道德勇氣，並將這項特質傳遞其他的人。」...(展开全部)

Two cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age. In On Liberty —one of the sacred texts of liberalism—he argues that any democracy risks becoming a "tyranny of opinion" in which minority views are suppressed if they do not conform to those of the ma...(展开全部)

The Art of Urban Sketching is both a comprehensive guide and a showcase of location drawings by artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel. This beautiful volume explains urban sketching within the context of a long historical tradition and how it is practiced today. It includes profiles of leading practitioners, a discussion of the benefits of work...(展开全部)

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s feminism, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism. Susan Sontag is widely regarded as one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas, after all, are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing reaches beyond the familiar, e...(展开全部)

On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves. For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerful...(展开全部)

An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. They're better at fighting cancer and surviving famine, and even see the world in a wider variety of colors. They are simply stronger than men at every stage ...(展开全部)

An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. They're better at fighting cancer and surviving famine, and even see the world in a wider variety of colors. They are simply stronger than men at every stage ...(展开全部)

A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.