Manga meets Pop meets Zen in Over the Rainbow, the first combined presentation of Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito--close friends and stars of the Japanese contemporary art scene. Nara, born in 1959, is regarded as one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists, and has attained a cult status in his homeland that is hardly conceivable for European artists to reach. His signature...(展开全部)

In this "crime puzzle of the first order" (New York Times), an ordinary flight to London turns extraordinary when a female passenger is shot to death with a venom-tipped dart. Even more bizarre is that the murder went unnoticed by everyone on board-- including the brilliant Hercule Poirot.

From Seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was t...(展开全部)

Chen Li-fu's memoir, The Storm Clouds Clear over China, describes the tragedy and hope of China's twentieth-century revolution as seen through the eyes of a major participant. Chen served as the private secretary and close confidant of Chiang Kaishek, president of the Republic of China, holding important official posts during the momentous years from 1926 to 1950. His recollect...(展开全部)

弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈，她十八岁出版处女作《你好，忧愁》，被译成二十多种语言，全球销量五百万册。曾沉溺于派对、飙车、赌博、酗酒，卷入形形色色的诉讼，被称作“迷人的小魔鬼”，成为二战后西方世界叛逆青年的代表。一生出版四十余部作品，写尽了属于一个时代的青春、爱情与自由。她是法国文坛神话的缔造者，一个不老的青春符号，一个关于天才、忧愁、畅销的恒久传奇。

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Sca...(展开全部)

作者： 凯特•梅斯纳（Kate Messner），美国童书作家。毕业于雪城大学，做过7年的电视新闻节目制片人和记者，还当过15年的英语老师，并通过了全美专业教学标准委员会的高级教师资格认证。2011年她开始从事儿童文学创作，已出版60多部作品，代表作有《菜园里，泥土中》《池塘上，池塘下》《雪地上，雪地下》《雨林里，枝叶间》《如何读一本故事书》《如何写作一个故事》《深海璀璨》等。作品荣获金风筝奖、E.B.怀特朗读奖、NYT绘本奖、银行街教育学院图书奖等多项殊荣。2022年，凯特荣获由纽约图书馆协会颁发的帝国奖，表彰她在青少年文学做出的重大贡献。 绘者： 克里斯托弗•赛拉斯•尼尔（Christopher Silas Neal），艺术家、插画家，长期为NYT供稿，作品在一系列杂志中发表，获奖颇丰，并多次参展。曾在科罗拉多大学主修音乐，后转而学习大众传播及平...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·奈 “软实力之父”，美国知名政治学家，亚太事务专家，新自由主义学派代表人物之一。 先后受教于普林斯顿大学、牛津大学、哈佛大学，1964年获哈佛大学政治学博士学位，1977年步入政坛，曾出任卡特政府助理国务卿、克林顿政府全国情报委员会主席和美国助理国防部长，后来重回哈佛大学，曾任肯尼迪政府学院院长，现为哈佛大学杰出贡献教授。 ·提出复合相互依赖理论，直接促进了国际关系研究的自由国际主义（理想主义）的复兴，催生了新自由主义 ·最早提出并阐述了“软实力”概念，被称为“软实力之父” ·对美国外交政策影响最大的学者之一