On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features a foreword by the poet Margaret Christakos, a “Short Talk on Afterwords” by Carson herself, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First issued in 1992...(展开全部)

Lyric sermons: Riddle-poems that consist only of answers: Lou Reid meets Claude Monet and converts to Zen: The pure hilarious ache of ontology: "Short Talks is elegiac, perceptive, droll. It is the first book-length collection by an accomplished, original voice. Sunday mornings are never going to be the same again.

This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. W...(展开全部)

Brick by Brick takes you inside the LEGO you've never seen. By following the teams that are inventing some of the world's best-loved toys, it spotlights the company's disciplined approach to harnessing creativity and recounts one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent memory. Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary change...(展开全部)

Psychic Politics is the result of Jane Roberts's search for the rules that govern our inner lives-the links between our daily, subjective experience and the greater Reality that nourishes all of our existence. This is not only her most challenging book, but a very personal investigation in which the sources of dream and myth, and the creative wellsprings of sex and spirituality...(展开全部)

The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss’s understanding of man and society in terms of individuals—kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.

卡尔·奥韦·克瑙斯高（Karl Ove Knausgård） 1968年生于挪威奥斯陆。1998年以首部小说《出离世界》（Ute av verden）获得挪威文学评论奖，2004年第二部小说《万物皆有时》（En tid for alt）又获得北欧文学奖。2009年至2011年间，克瑙斯高出版了六卷本自传小说《我的奋斗》（Min Kamp），获得挪威最高文学奖项布拉哥文学奖。在挪威，每十个人就有一人读过《我的奋斗》。知名作家莉迪亚·戴维斯、扎迪·史密斯、杰弗里·尤金尼德斯、乔纳森·勒瑟姆等也表示读《我的奋斗》成瘾，迫不及待地一本接一本读下去。2015年9月，克瑙斯高获得德国《世界报》文学奖（Welt-Literaturpreis，2014年得主是村上春树）。另著有随笔集《在秋天》（Om høsten，2015年）。 译者简介 林后，生于成都，长在重庆，...(展开全部)

This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story "Rain", the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and "The Three Fat Women of Antibes", an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and greed, as well as a host of other brilliant tales.

This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story "Rain", the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and "The Three Fat Women of Antibes", an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and greed, as well as a host of other brilliant tales.

1Q84简体中文版官方网站：http://www.douban.com/minisite/1q84/ “不管喜欢还是不喜欢，目前我已经置身于这‘1Q84年’。我熟悉的那个1984年已经无影无踪，今年是1Q84年。空气变了，风景变了。我必须尽快适应这个带着问号的世界。像被放进陌生森林中的动物一样，为了生存下去，得尽快了解并顺应这里的规则。” 《1Q84》写一对十岁时相遇后便各奔东西的三十岁男女，相互寻觅对方的故事，并将这个简单故事变成复杂的长篇。我想将这个时代所有世态立体地写出，成为我独有的“综合小说”。超越纯文学这一类型，采取多种尝试。在当今时代的空气中嵌入人类的生命。——村上春树 ★村上春树蛰伏7年震撼新作！ ★1979-2009，村上春树创造30年巅峰杰作！ ★ 现在是1Q84年，空气变了，风景变了，规则也变了。 为了保护自己，你必须尽快顺应这1...(展开全部)