Primo Levi wrote books that have been called "the essential works of humankind," including Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining to his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the end. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson unr...(展开全部)

Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, wrote books that have been called the essential works of humankind. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining until his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the last. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 伊恩·汤姆森（Ian Thomson） 自由作家、记者，最后采访莱维的几位记者之一，也是第一位开始为莱维立传的作家，作品另有《南意大利》《你好，布莱克：海地之旅》。 ··· 【译者简介】 杨晨光 辽宁沈阳人，译作另有《休战》《被淹没与被拯救的》《最后的猎巫人》等。

李维 • 平福德，英国插画大师，擅长将记忆与想象相结合进行创作。他的处女作《五弦琴》曾荣获英国图书信托基金会幼儿读物奖“最佳插画新秀奖”。他的第二部作品《大黑狗》于2013年荣获了插画界重量级奖项——英国凯特•格林纳威奖。 约翰 • 豪，杰出的幻想艺术家之一，他凭借为《魔戒》三部曲、《纳尼亚传奇》《霍比特人》等作品创作的一系列奇幻风格插画享誉世界。 安娜 • 杨 • 吉尔伯特，素有“英国彩铅女神”之称，她华丽而精细的画风受到各界赞誉。她的许多作品被私人收藏，其中包括阿诺德•施瓦辛格和英国已故的玛格丽特公主。目前她已创作出版了《令人吃惊的德古拉》，并且还为“神秘日志”系列中的《吸血鬼的故事》《海盗传奇》《预言家的魔法》等图书担任美术指导及插画工作。

In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude Levi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful introduction to the theory and practice of structuralism. Leach organizes his work not by chronology but by theme, exploring three important topics in Levi-Strauss's work: human beings ...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·戴森 戴森创始人兼首席工程师。戴森以革命性的气旋吸尘器和Supersonic吹风机闻名，旗下各品类产品以创新的技术、设计和效能享誉全球，销往世界各地。 詹姆斯·戴森1947年出生于英国诺福克，曾在伦敦皇家艺术学院学习设计，随后加入罗托克公司，与杰里米·弗莱一起设 计和制造海上卡车。 詹姆斯·戴森相信，工程师和创业家可以改变世界。他创设了戴森工程技术学院、詹姆斯·戴森基金会和戴森设计大奖，支持和鼓励更多人加入这个事业。

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life. Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the way houses are cleaned ar...(展开全部)

A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: " ""All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.""Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees--""The fountain rises at the center of the plaza;""on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.""--from "tributaries"...(展开全部)