The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her i...(展开全部)

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her i...(展开全部)

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousnes sstarts to drift...(展开全部)

In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex --an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick . In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history. In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail...(展开全部)

萨维娜·贝尔曼，墨西哥家喻户晓的剧作家、记者和电视节目主持人。1954年生于墨西哥城一个东欧犹太移民家庭，学生时代在伊比利亚美洲大学攻读心理学和墨西哥文学。 她的写作以幽默、讽刺性著称，除了深受家庭背景影响的犹太主题外，主要以女性观点出发，多方剖析诸如专制、暴力、歧视、偏见等两性之间纠结复杂的关系，也探讨人类与动物不同物种之间的关系。她创作的剧本曾四度荣获墨西哥国家编剧奖、胡安·路易斯·德·阿拉尔孔戏剧奖、新闻作品两度荣获墨西哥国家新闻奖。她编剧并制作的电影《后院》代表墨西哥参加2010年奥斯卡最佳外语片奖角逐。此外她还为目前两位墨西哥著名导演阿尔方索·卡隆（《潘神的迷宫》制片）、亚历杭德罗·G. 伊尼亚里图（《鸟人》导演，2015年奥斯卡最佳导演奖得主）分别创作了电影剧本《爱的历史》和《光》。 《在世界中心潜游的女孩》是萨维娜·贝尔曼在2010年创...(展开全部)

What do you do when it feels impossible to live up to everything expected of you? When the only person who understands you disappears? When you are young and long for something that seems out of reach? Berta dreams of being an artist, but as a girl growing up in a small Swedish farming village in the 1920s, she has little hope. She finds solace in nature, and in drawing and sha...(展开全部)

"Whatever the task, whether keeping afour-year-old quiet in public, housebreaking a puppy,coaching a team, or memorizing a poem, it will gofast, and better, and be more fun, if you know howto use reinforcement."--KarenPryor. Now Karen Pryor clearly explains theunderlying principles of behavioral training and throughnumerous fascinating examples reveals how this artcan be appli...(展开全部)

作者簡介 凱倫．布萊爾（Karen Pryor） 作家、動物行為學家、也是揚名國際的科學家，專精行為心理學和海洋哺乳動物生物學。她創立了美國夏威夷的「海洋生物世界」（Sea Life Park），是引領海豚訓練的先驅，她在該處結識了知名心理學家史金納（B. F. Skinner）博士及動物行為學家勞倫茲（Konrad Lorenz），並與二人共事。 布萊爾女士曾任美國政府指派的「海洋哺乳動物委員會」（Marine Mammal Commission）委員，並擔任過美國太空總署及國家動物園等多個組織機構的顧問，提供有關人類、動物之行為和學習的諮詢，曾任「劍橋行為科學研究中心」（the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Sciences）的理事之一。 她的第一本著作《為寶貝哺乳》（Nursing Your Baby）已銷售兩...(展开全部)

Shoot gathers over 20 photographers whose work focuses on capturing a moment rather than elaborate lighting setups or controlled, manufactured scenarios. Employing the most basic photographic tools—a single-lens reflex camera and natural light—they must rely on their instincts and their ability to interact with a situation to create a dynamic image. This freewheeling approach r...(展开全部)