Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization and continue to amaze audiences worldwide. Lee has won an Academy Award two times for Best Director―the first Asian to win―for films as different as a small drama about gay cowboys in...(展开全部)

James's aunts call him names, beat and starve him and make his life a misery. If only his parents hadn't been eaten by an escaped rhinoceros, he wouldn't be in this mess. But one day he meets a man who gives him a bag of magic crocodile tongues and so begins the adventure of his dreams.

罗尔德·达尔，英国著名儿童文学作家，一生从事写作几十年，创作儿童读物18本，如《詹姆斯和大仙桃》、《查里和巧克力工厂》、《好心眼的巨人》、《女巫》、《了不起的狐狸爸爸》、《玛蒂尔达》等等，其魔力超越语言和国界，同时他本人的传奇经历也像童话里的人物一样赋有神奇力量，成为“哈梅林的魔笛手”(The Pied Piper of Hamelin)，凡是读过其书的孩子全都情不自禁迷倒在他创造的畅快淋漓的魔力世界，无一幸免。

Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary o...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.

The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a steep personal cost “A biography that reads like a thriller or a whodunit . . . scrupulously honest, deeply damning, and sometimes even heartbreaking.”—Neil Gaiman Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twe...(展开全部)

哈尔·克莱蒙特，本名哈里·斯塔布斯，生于美国麻省，曾获哈佛天文学学士学位，二战时入伍，成为一名轰炸机飞行员。退伍后成为中学教师，长期教授科学课程。 克莱蒙特一生共创作了十五部长篇以及大量中短篇小说。1954年，《重力使命》开始在《惊奇科幻》连载，成为他的代表作，该书也是科幻史上硬科幻小说的代表。 克莱蒙特在科幻作家和读者中具有崇高的声望。他是1991年世界科幻大会的主宾，1998年入选科幻/奇幻名人殿，美国科幻奇幻作家协会于1999年星云奖颁奖仪式上授予他科幻大师称号。

For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity itself played strange tricks. He would dare the perils of strange tribes and stranger creatures -- even dicker with those strange aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the disk-shaped planet of...(展开全部)

For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity itself played strange tricks. He would dare the perils of strange tribes and stranger creatures -- even dicker with those strange aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the disk-shaped planet of...(展开全部)