Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and...(展开全部)

Shelter II is the second in a series of books about people building their own homes in different parts of the world. The principles outlined in Shelter, published almost 40 years ago, seem even more important today: relearning the still-usable skills of the past and doing more hand work in providing life's necessities. Shelter II provides a basic manual of design and const...(展开全部)

An award-winning international sensation―with a second-act dystopian twist―Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. “At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. “In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher...(展开全部)

简介：The course of true love never did run smooth. - ShakespeareFor my loving family, thanks for their forgiveness and selfless devotion;In everlasting memory of my precious love Celia, she was the morning star in the depth of my soul.

作者&绘者：陈振盼，美籍华裔作家，2018年凯迪克奖得主，曾在雪城大学学习插画。他的图画书屡获大奖，其中《一座岛的600万年》获得了2013年的狮鹫奖，并被美国《学校图书馆杂志》《科克斯书评》共同评委2012年度最佳图书。他还创作了矢车菊奖入围作品《穿越寒武纪珊瑚礁》和亚马逊十大编辑精选童书《穿越侏罗纪原始森林》，以及同样出色的美国童书合作中心推荐图书《万有引力》。

阿道司·赫胥黎 Aldous Huxley (1894-1962)，赫胥黎出生于赫赫有名的赫胥黎家族。从小受到良好的教育，先后毕业于伊顿公学和牛津大学。他对人类生活中的矛盾具有超人的预见力。家学渊源和个人禀赋使得他在20世纪的欧美学术圈被认为是现代思想的领导者，位列当时杰 出的知识分子行列，曾多次获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 赫胥黎一生创作了大量小说、诗歌、哲学著作和游记等，内容包罗万象，涉及现代文明各个重要方面。代表作有《美丽新世界》《岛》等。他晚年时对艺术、心理学、哲学，尤其是神秘主义颇感兴趣。

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a new...(展开全部)

For over a hundred years, the inhabitants of the Pacific island of Pala have been part of a social experiment whereby western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise on earth. In Island, Huxley gives us his vision of Utopia.

简介：The course of true love never did run smooth. - ShakespeareFor my loving family, thanks for their forgiveness and selfless devotion;In everlasting memory of my precious love Celia, she was the morning star in the depth of my soul.

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