Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of...(展开全部)

Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. Global communications, mobile interfaces and Internet cultures are re-configuring our everyday lives and experiences. To understand these changes, a new theoretical imagination is needed, one that is informed by a conceptual vocabulary that is able to cope with the daunting complexity of the world today. This book d...(展开全部)

麥可‧布林（Michael Breen） 出生於英國，成長期間住過葉門、德國、英格蘭和蘇格蘭，在愛丁堡大學主修英國文學和語言學，畢業後到北海鑽油平台工作了幾年。1982年以記者身分前往韓國，替多家報社報導南北韓情勢，包括英國的《衛報》與《泰晤士報》，以及美國的《華盛頓時報》。後來擔任諮詢顧問，提供企業與北韓相關的資訊，接著經營自己的公關公司，目前定居於首爾。其他著作有《金正日：北韓親愛的領導人》、《韓國人：他們是誰、他們想要什麼、他們的未來在何處》、《早年的文鮮明：1920年到1953年》。 譯者：方祖芳 專職譯者，第23屆與28屆梁實秋文學獎譯文組評審獎得主。譯作包括《一生設計》、《創意電力公司》、《飛行少年》、《跟蹤雷普利》、《迷走亞馬遜》、《走對下一步》等書。

The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and animals in ancient Egypt, to the sophisticat...(展开全部)

The Short Story of Photography is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of photography. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key photographs from the first experiments in the early 19th century to digital photography. The design of the book allows the student or photography enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key genres, artists, themes, and techniques...(展开全部)

The Short Story of Photography is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of photography. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key photographs from the first experiments in the early 19th century to digital photography. The design of the book allows the student or photography enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key genres, artists, themes, and techniques...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.