In the short time they existed, the indie rock band The Libertines kick-started a music Renaissance. Their grungy rock sound andsuch stunts as giving away albums for freeerased the barrier with fans and inspired thousands. Yet for all their musical acumen, the band made the most headlines for their apparent “live fast, die young” lifestyle and for lead man Pete Doherty’s drug a...(展开全部)

Collected here are ten superb tales by today's master of the seemingly impossible crime, the Frenchman Paul Halter. Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt, a tunnel that murders people, a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the snow, a victim killed by an invisible hand at the top of a guarded tower, a homicidal snowman that kills in front of witnesses... There canno...(展开全部)

Collected here are ten superb tales by today's master of the seemingly impossible crime, the Frenchman Paul Halter. Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt, a tunnel that murders people, a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the snow, a victim killed by an invisible hand at the top of a guarded tower, a homicidal snowman that kills in front of witnesses... There canno...(展开全部)

"This is the amazing story of a little boy, Peter, who adores his mother so much that he wants to give her the moon as a present. But the moon is so far and he is so small He climbs onto his father's shoulders, but still he is not tall enough to reach the moon. He asks his cousins for help, but still Peter cannot reach the moon... After having built a huge human pyramid, he r...(展开全部)

文/【美】麦克·巴内特（Mac Barnett）美国童书作家，1982年出生于加州，毕业于波莫纳学院。巴内特创作过多本绘本，还有一系列的儿童冒险小说，曾获爱伦坡文学奖最佳童书。作品包括《比利·推特尔和他的蓝鲸问题》《再猜猜！》《哦，不!》等。和乔恩·克拉森合作多本图画书，更曾荣获美国凯迪克银牌奖、怀特朗读绘本奖等多项大奖。麦克还是洛杉矶回声公园“时光之旅”商店的创始人，还是“LA826”组织成员，这个组织是一个提供写作训练和指导的非营利机构。 图/【加】乔恩·克拉森（Jon Klassen）乔恩·克拉森，出生于加拿大，现定居美国加州洛杉矶市。他曾经为动画长片、音乐录像带和杂志书刊等绘图，是一位知名的插画家和设计师。他曾在梦工厂动画制片公司、莱卡动画公司工作，并为英国广播公司设计2010年在温哥华举办的冬季奥运会广告动画，赢得英国最大动画奖——影艺学院...(展开全部)

Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up... When a woeful mouse is swallowed up by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not alone: a duck has already set up digs and, boy, has that duck got it figured out! Turns out it's pretty nice inside the belly of the beast - there's delicious food, elegant table settings and, best of all, dancing. And there's something m...(展开全部)

Anthony Vidler, an internationally recognized scholar, theorist, and critic of modern and contemporary architecture, is widely known for his essays on the most pressing issues and debates in the field. This volume brings together a collection of such writings—including the iconic, long unavailable “Scenes of the Street”—into one volume. Scenes of the Street and Other Essay...(展开全部)

Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods. In lustrous prose, Adam Leith Gollner draws readers into a Willy Wonka-like world with mangoes that taste ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Journalist Gollner's debut is a rollicking account of the world of fruit and fruit fanatics. He's traveled to many countries in search of exotic fruits, and he describes in sensuous detail some of the hundreds of varieties he's sampled, among them peanut butter fruit, blackberry-jam fruit and coco-de-mer—a suggestively shaped coconut known...(展开全部)

亚当·李斯·格尔纳 http://www.adamgollner.com 现居加拿大蒙特利尔。耗费数年周游世界探访地下水果世界。他是《纽约时报》、《美食家》、《好胃口》、《GOOD》等杂志的撰稿人。曾经担任《VICE》杂志的编辑。他还是个音乐人，并筹拍自己的独立电影。《水果猎人》是他的第一本著作，并即将被搬上银幕，由著名导演文德斯监督，《沿江而上（Up the YangZi River）》华裔导演张侨勇导演。 本书网站： www.thefruithunters.com