In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast’s memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When i...(展开全部)

Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.

Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. "Something Happened" is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controve...(展开全部)

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did for the madness of war 'Joseph Heller's finest achievement' Jonathan Coe Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistress...(展开全部)

關於愛情，你們我們他們都有話要說。 關於愛情，你們我們他們也無話可說。 《你們我們他們》原是幾米在報紙上的專欄，幾米因為創作了《向左走向右走》而有許多座談會邀約演講，這些邀約要談的愛情主題嚇壞了他，因為幾米覺得談情說愛是需要才華的！但是後來卻因為報社主編指定主題邀稿，因此才有了這本以愛情為主題的《你們我們他們》。 千古以來歌頌愛情的文學創作不可勝數，《你們我們他們》書中對於愛情的態度卻是質疑居多，雖然書中人物多是雙雙對對，但是幾米讓對稱產生矛盾，於是抒情的幾米不見了，小小甜蜜的愛情成了穿插點綴；一針見血的論調，辛辣諷刺的文字，這是一本摻雜了人生百味的愛情圖文書， 本書描述愛情的同時也撩撥了你們我們他們的愛情觀。 ﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡﹡ 野獸總是對美女說， 雖然我外貌醜陋駭人， 但是我有一顆善良動人的心。 而野貓在靠近小黃鶯時...(展开全部)

A modern adaptation of this favorite Jewish folktale describes how the blanket grandfather had made for young Joseph is transformed ove r the years into a jacket, a button, and, ultimately, a story.

Synopsis It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts he was reasonably certain but a murderous attack left him certain about little else – maybe just the conviction that the British usually did the right thing and that to be a crook a man must assume the society he lived in was honest.

Love your work, work for what you love, and change the world—all at the same time. What matters most to you? Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you? The surprising truth is that you don’t have to choose—and that you’ll find more success if you don’t. That’s the breakthrough message of TOMS’ One for One...(展开全部)

Translated by Audie E. Bock. "A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained without reading this book.... Also indispensable for budding directors are the addenda, in which Kurosawa lays out his beliefs on the primacy of a good script, on scriptwriting as an essential tool for directors, on direct...(展开全部)

20歲的青春洋溢、30歲的矛盾迷惘、40歲的生命精華，三個看似沒有交集的女人成長階段，卻在生命的縱向起了連結。每個女人都會經過這些關卡，在這些關卡中產生不同的生理與心理的變化，無論面對愛情、友情、親情、婚姻、事業都有不同的想法與做法，電影203040提供了女人不同的觀點與想法。這本《203040》集結張艾嘉、李心潔、劉若英、鍾文音、林明謙、紅膠囊、凱西、萬歲少女、恩佐等多位作家，以20歲、30歲、40歲的角度切入，探討女人看女人、男人看女人的各種多面向的觀察，還提供了女人幾個保健方式，藉由這本書讓更多的女人更認識自己，讓更多的男人更了解女人。 ······················· 本書目錄 一、20.30.40 男演員談女性 紅膠囊的圖文 一個女人一個世界／鍾文音 20。30。40／林明謙 恩佐的圖文 二、20歲的女生 不管如何，勇往直前－...(展开全部)