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Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years’ absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of mon...(展开全部)

You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. You mortals can't even see the monsters we have to fight all the time. So when a game of dodgeball turned into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, I couldn't exactly ask my gym teacher for help. And that was just for starters. This is the ...(展开全部)

班·温特斯，美国作家。致力于为儿童和成年人创作戏剧、音乐剧，并在多家报刊开设专栏。创作本书前，曾出版过少儿读物，也曾参与畅销书“逆境求生手册”系列的撰写。本书问世旋即成为《纽约时报》畅销书，最新作品《安娜·卡列尼娜与机器人》同样受到读者喜爱。

班·温特斯，美国作家。致力于为儿童和成年人创作戏剧、音乐剧，并在多家报刊开设专栏。创作本书前，曾出版过少儿读物，也曾参与畅销书“逆境求生手册”系列的撰写。本书问世旋即成为《纽约时报》畅销书，最新作品《安娜·卡列尼娜与机器人》同样受到读者喜爱。

From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are ev...(展开全部)

马克·金维尔（Mark Kingwell），多伦多大学哲学教授，加拿大非常活跃的社会评论家、资深意见领袖，《哈珀斯》杂志编辑，《环球邮报》《女王季刊》撰稿人。他是一位多产作家，出版作品19部，发表论文数十篇，曾在1997年获得著名的“斯皮茨奖”，2002年“全国杂志奖—论文写作奖”，2004年“专栏奖”。2018年获封加拿大皇家学会院士、英国皇家艺术学会院士。研究领域：社会与政治哲学、建筑与设计哲学、艺术哲学、20世纪欧洲大陆哲学。

The comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide. In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee ...(展开全部)

One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective. Written with detail and thoroughness - covers all eras of the horror film and correlates specific types of movie monsters to the historical social conditions which produced them. Explores how popular culture e...(展开全部)

The Super Book for Super Heroes is a compendium of ideas, drawing, coloring, and activities that allows you to create your own crusaders for justice who do battle with super villains, unravelling their crazed schemes for taking over the world. You will learn to draw villains such as the Mad Scientist, Bog Creature, and Evil Robot, while also creating superheroes, their sidekick...(展开全部)