The most comprehensive and detailed history of shoes ever published, with more than 2000 specially drawn illustrations. John Peacock charts the development of every kind and style of footwear from earliest times to the present day, for both men and women. His drawings reproduce in meticulous detail a host of representative examples from every era: the simple sandals of Anc...(展开全部)

Synopsis Laszlo Vass, born in Budapest in 1946, worked in the Hungarian fashion house of Magyar Divatintezet as a clicker, closer, shoemaker, and designer from 1964 until 1969. In 1970, having gained his professional shoemaking qualification he joined a private workshop specializing in hand-made shoes and ladies' boots as assistant chief designer and shoemaker. In 1978 Vass fou...(展开全部)

The most comprehensive and detailed history of shoes ever published, with more than 2000 specially drawn illustrations. John Peacock charts the development of every kind and style of footwear from earliest times to the present day, for both men and women. His drawings reproduce in meticulous detail a host of representative examples from every era: the simple sandals of Anc...(展开全部)

Michael Jordan.The mere mention of the name conjures up visions of basketball played at its absolute best. But as a child, Michael almost gave up on his hoop dreams, all because he feared he'd never grow tall enough to play the game that would one day make him famous. That's when his mother and father stepped in and shared the invaluable lesson of what really goes into the maki...(展开全部)

作者是乔丹的母亲和妹妹。乔丹的母亲迪洛丝·乔丹积极投入关怀儿童及家庭的公益事业，也是现任美国药品管理局的反毒宣导咨询委员。她还是著名的演说家，《我儿迈克尔·乔丹》一书的作者。现居住在美国芝加哥，共有五个孩子和十一个孙子。她将这本书献给那些常常说：“我办不到”、“如果我有天分就好了”这类话的孩子。她希望这本书能激励年轻读者追求自己的梦想，像迈克尔·乔丹一样：立定目标、努力工作、全心投入。只有这样才能使梦想成真。乔丹的妹妹萝丝琳·M·乔和母亲一样，全心投入多方面的慈善事业。她也发表了许多激励人心的言论，传达与心灵对话，挑战自我的理念。她将这本书献给决心要如鹰展翅高飞的小孩：借着上帝的恩典，你能飞，努力去做就对了。绘者卡迪尔·尼尔森一直是乔丹的超级粉丝，替《鞋子里的盐》画插画，简直就是实现了一个他从不敢奢望的梦想。2008年他绘制的《我们是舰艇》曾被《纽约...(展开全部)

Michael Jordan's story--the story only his family could tell. . . . Young Michael feared he'd never be tall enough to play the game that would eventually make him famous. To lift his spirits, his mother told him that salt in his shoes would help him grow. This heartwarming picture book, written by the superstar's mother and sister, and exquisitely illustrated by artist Kadir Ne...(展开全部)

Michael Jordan.The mere mention of the name conjures up visions of basketball played at its absolute best. But as a child, Michael almost gave up on his hoop dreams, all because he feared he'd never grow tall enough to play the game that would one day make him famous. That's when his mother and father stepped in and shared the invaluable lesson of what really goes into the maki...(展开全部)

Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she's beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up, semi-employed little sister to straighten up and fly right...(展开全部)

Today, buying shoes, wearing shoes, and collecting shoes is for many of us a habit that borders on fetish. Shoe lover or not, we all make choices every day about which shoes to wear. But why do we choose the footwear we do? In Shoes: The Meaning of Style, Elizabeth Semmelhack explores the history of shoes and how different types of footwear have come to say varying things about...(展开全部)

Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand-new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes But no matter what color his shoes are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song . . . because it's all good.