Discover the world of plastic. That inexpensive, flexible, resilient, and soft-ignored material enters the limelight in this book of plastic furniture, lighting, architecture, and everyday objects. This book showcases the work of dozens of international designers who take plastic seriously. No longer just used for objects of practicality, each of the varied projects include...(展开全部)

The 3rd edition of this classic textbook continues to serve as a one-stop resource for authoritative information on all aspects of small animal surgery. Coverage includes basic procedures such as spays, castrations, and declaws, as well as more advanced surgeries that might be referred to specialists such as craniotomy, ventral slots, and lung lobectomy. Discussions of general ...(展开全部)

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic’s relations to ...(展开全部)

作者Michelle Bates 被称作Holga女皇。她从1991年开始使用Holga这种简易的塑料相机拍照，在世界各地举办展览和培训班。去年10月，她出版了一本专门讲述如何创造性使用Holga等各种玩具相机拍照的摄影书《塑料相机：充满创造力的游戏》（Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity）。 这是一本特别可爱的书，其中不仅仅集纳了34位摄影师的精彩作品，同时还讲述了他们在使用塑料相机时的创作技巧。从前期对相机的使用，一直到后期如何冲印照片的技巧，非常全面。有的摄影师喜欢在拍摄的时候晃动相机，有的则使用专业闪光灯，然后过片的时候让照片只卷过去一部分再拍摄，造成一种重叠效果，拍摄出的照片分外时尚。 对于LOMO一族来说，此书无疑可以成为宝典。 *The first toy camera guide writte...(展开全部)

Anatomically correct We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797?1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published in any language. In 1830, having received his doctorate in medicine three years prior, Bourgery began wo...(展开全部)

Cosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain "beauty capital" to increase opportunities for social and career success. Building on rich ethnographic data, this book presents the perspectives of women who hav...(展开全部)

Cosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain "beauty capital" to increase opportunities for social and career success. Building on rich ethnographic data, this book presents the perspectives of women who hav...(展开全部)

Anatomically correct We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797?1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published in any language. In 1830, having received his doctorate in medicine three years prior, Bourgery began wo...(展开全部)

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent observing residents and staff surgeons trying to implement this new regulation, Katherine C. Kellogg discovered that resistance to it...(展开全部)