On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 pe...(展开全部)

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 pe...(展开全部)

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the s...(展开全部)

With endless newspaper column inches devoted to one of the most talked about men in the world, it seems that we know everything there is to know about David Beckham. Or do we? This is Beckham's life story in his own words. The book deals with his complex relationship with United boss Alex Ferguson and looks at how he handles the pressure of playing alongside some of the most vo...(展开全部)

A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, SIDE EFFECTS is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how gifted he is. Included here are such classics as REMEMBERING NEEDLEMAN, THE KUGELMASS EPISODE, a new sory called CONFESSIONS OF A BUGLAR, and more.

Agatha Christie's audacious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended? Marina's froze...(展开全部)

知名作家團體 GoRA ╳ 人氣動畫公司 GoHands 聯手推出K-Project 超人氣動畫「K」不可不知的原創故事！ 在原作GoRA成員 古橋秀之 筆下精彩揭露 ※《K》劇場版電影 日本2014年7月12日即將上映！台灣地區8月15正式上映！ ※劇場版電影7月5日台灣將搶先日本，與美、法、新、馬地區舉辦聯合首映。 ※ 小說、漫畫、TV動畫、歌曲、廣播劇、動畫電影，連動企劃話題不斷！！ 「青之王」宗像禮司、拔劍！ 以劍制劍，我等大義無霾！ 「Scepter 4」――以青色氏族與青之王宗像禮司為中心的故事，在此揭開序幕。 由「青之王」宗像禮司率領的反超能者維安組織「Scepter 4」。 其隊部一隅，一間幾乎被遺忘的資料室中， 駐守著一名擁有巨大身軀的獨臂男子，善条剛毅。 散發不容小覷氣勢的他，原來是曾效忠上一代「青之王」的拔刀術達人。 在深夜無人...(展开全部)

Nan Goldin's seminal second book The Other Side is finally back in print. Ever since the early 1970's Goldin has lived with and among drag queens, documenting both their glamour and their struggles. The Other Side is her very personal declaration of love and gratitude to these drag queens, who showed her a way out of the captivity of pre-packaged, socially prescribed identity. ...(展开全部)

In this extended answer to the question, "Can one's consciousness survive after one dies?"-asked by philosopher Thomas Reid in 1775 and Joe King, a disabled country singer, in 2003-Humphrey concedes he is working to "develop a concept of consciousness which we, as theorists, can do business with." He argues perception is neither solely nor necessarily a product of sensation, an...(展开全部)