Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great Loves collection include tales of blissful and all-encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous,...(展开全部)

杰森 • 路易斯，英国旅行家，畅销书作家，摇滚歌手，电视制作人。曾于1993年至2006年进行人力环球旅行，后将其经历制作成电视节目而在英国名声大噪，成为家喻户晓的名人。其事迹先后被包括英国BBC、《泰晤士报》《旧金山纪事报》等全球200多家媒体报道，并被《泰晤士报》认为是“人类迄今为止最伟大的旅行家”！

This delightful tale of one of the world’s favorite foods draws on botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate. It begins some 4,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, Theobroma Cacao, and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into what is now known as choc...(展开全部)

This delightful and best-selling tale of one of the world's favorite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate. The story begins some 3,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, Theobroma Cacao, and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into...(展开全部)

索菲·D. 科（Sophie D. Coe），美国人类学家、食物历史学家。 她的书《美国第一美食》1994 年出版，受到普遍好评。 麦克·D. 科（Michael D. Coe），美国耶鲁大学人类学名誉教授。主要著作有《玛雅》《墨西哥》《打破玛雅守则》《吴哥和高棉文明》《解读玛雅铭文》等。

This is the remarkable story of tea and its uses from ancient times to the present. The narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendor of the Tang and Song Dynasties in China, from the tea ceremony aesthetics of medieval Japan to the fabled tea and horse trade of Central Asia, from the advent of Britain's love affair with tea to the tea party that...(展开全部)

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction—pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himse...(展开全部)

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman him...(展开全部)

Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman , is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the m...(展开全部)