To stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it. Throughout the ages, the stripe has made its mark in mysterious ways. From prisoners' uniforms to tailored suits, a street sign to a set of sheets, Pablo Picasso to Saint Joseph, str...(展开全部)

Michel Pastoureau's lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolution of fashion, taste, and visual codes in Western culture. The Devil's Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arrived in France from the Holy Land, the religious order required its members to wear striped habits, prompting turmoil and denunciations in the ...(展开全部)

It's the first day of school, and Camilla discovers that she is covered from head to toe in stripes, then polka-dots, and any other pattern spoken aloud With a little help, she learns the secret of accepting her true self, in spite of her peculiar ailment.

大卫·香农 他的绘画兴趣与许多孩子一样，起源于最早拿起铅笔和蜡笔涂鸦的幼儿时期。著名的代表作《大卫，不可以》人物原型和灵感来自他五岁时的作品，这当然要感谢有心的妈妈，保存儿子幼时作品多年。身为放射科医生的父亲对艺术家的成长也功不可没，他常常把工作中用过的纸张从中间一折拿回家，给小香农涂涂画画。这中间一折的纸张是否预示了香农未来与出版物结缘的生涯呢？ 毕业于美国最知名的艺术院校艺术中心设计学院后，他到纽约过了一段所有成功艺术家初期都会经历的苦日子。他通过画政治漫画，担任《纽约时报》、《时代周刊》和《滚石杂志》等世界一流杂志的插画家，作品逐渐被人注意。1989年他首次受邀为一本民间故事书《豹身上有多少斑点？》创作插图，从此与儿童图画书结缘并找到自己最喜欢的创作领域。

Category: Making Friends"What we have here is a bad case of stripes. One of the worst I've ever seen!"Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don't like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact, she's so worried that she's about to break out in...a bad case of stripes!"...(展开全部)

Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages—and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world. From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras , Stewart Lee Allen engagingly illustrates that when a pleasure as primal as eating is criminalized, the...(展开全部)

Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages—and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world. From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras , Stewart Lee Allen engagingly illustrates that when a pleasure as primal as eating is criminalized, the...(展开全部)

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end but four years after his death the nuns were still being subjecte...(展开全部)

Aldous Huxley's acclaimed and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history In 1643 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier—accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge—was convicted of bein...(展开全部)

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. This is the secret world of the inde...(展开全部)