What will you find when you open this little book? A fun story? Sweet characters? Enticing pictures? Yes! But much more. Open this book and you will find...another book...and another...and another. Debut author Jesse Klausmeier and master book creator Suzy Lee have combined their creative visions to craft a seemingly simple book about colors for the very youngest readers, an im...(展开全部)

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories togethe...(展开全部)

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories togethe...(展开全部)

Mifuyu is a high school student living with a large collection of books left by her great-grandfather―the vast library known as Mikura Hall. Although her father is the current caretaker, Mifuyu herself doesn’t share her family’s passion for literature. But when several books are stolen from the library, triggering an ancient curse, the town is transformed according to the vario...(展开全部)

An animal adventure for the little white bear and his magic pencil. As bear strolls through the forest when he meets a lonely gorilla, a noisy crocodile, a lion and even an elephant. They all look like they need something, so bear steps in to save the day using his magic red and yellow pencil to draw just what they were looking for. Originally published in 1988 this early work ...(展开全部)

京•麦克莱尔 加拿大备受好评的获奖作家。她之前为孩子们创作过绘本:《小孩茱莉亚》《弗尔兹先生》《小勺子》和《我的妹妹是只狼》。她曾获得加拿大最负盛名的儿童图书奖——总督文学奖。她为成年人写的第一部小说《开信者》，赢得了K.M. 猎人艺术家奖，并入围亚马逊网站的加拿大第一部小说奖。她的散文和艺术批评已在北美、欧洲、亚洲和澳大利亚广泛出版和选编。 玛丽昂•阿伯纳 她出生于法国。在获得巴黎艺术学院动画电影证书之后，她定居于加拿大蒙特利尔。多亏一双漂亮的冬季靴，她忍受住了加拿大寒冷的天气，并致力于艺术创作。她已经创作了30多本儿童读物，包括最近的《山姆的宠物脾气》。她的作品在几项国际比赛中获得了荣誉。 她和歌手兼作曲家大卫•沃尔以及他们的两个孩子一起住在多伦多。

The Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world’s leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what scientists are revealing through precise measurements of the faint thermal afterglow of the Big Bang—known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB—and...(展开全部)

A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, first novelist ...(展开全部)

Everybody wants to connect, but not everybody knows how to. Connecting is all about your friendliness, your ability to engage, and your willingness to give value first. When you combine those three attributes, you will have uncovered the secret of powerful connections and rich relationships. In Jeffrey Gitomer's "Little Black Book of Connections" you will find secrets uncover...(展开全部)

When her dog disappears into the gutter of the book, Bella calls for help. But when the helpers disappear too, Bella realizes it will take more than a tug on the leash to put things right. Cleverly using the physicality of the book, This book just ate my dog! is inventive, ingenious, and just pure kid-friendly fun!