This fun and fascinating treasury features all kinds of families and their lives together. Each spread showcases one aspect of home lifeÑfrom houses and holidays, to schools and pets, to feelings and family trees. Ros AsquithÕs humorous illustrations perfectly complement a charming text from the acclaimed Mary Hoffman; kids will love poring over these pages again and again. A c...(展开全部)

著者：玛丽•霍夫曼 英国畅销书作家，从图画书到小说，已经为儿童创作了90多本书。她与世界著名插画家卡罗琳•宾合作的《奇异恩典》获得了凯特•格林纳威奖入围奖，加上后来出版的续集，总销量达到了150万册。她还在弗朗西斯•林肯儿童出版社出版过其他图画书，并创作了享誉国际声誉的Stravaganz系列，由布鲁姆斯伯里出版社出版。玛丽目前住在牛津郡，和丈夫还有三只缅甸猫一起生活。 绘者：罗丝•阿斯奎思 罗丝•阿斯奎思在英国《卫报》做了20年的漫画家，为年轻读者创作和插画了60多本书，包括了在兰登书屋出版的最畅销的青少年烦恼系列。她毕业于剑桥大学，专攻艺术专业。在成为Time Out杂志的戏剧评论员之前，还做过摄影师、设计师和老师。此前，阿斯奎思还做过City Limits的戏剧栏目联合编辑和《观察家》的戏剧评论员。

The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Yet through much of history, across many cultures, the female leg was kept covered and treated as taboo, until it became an object of sexual obsession. In Victorian times, the word 'leg' was forbidden in polite society, les...(展开全部)

This is a wonderful collection of words and pictures to share and talk about. The pages are packed with 1000 really useful everyday words, each matched with a detailed and amusing picture to make learning new words easy and fun.

The COYOTE CAFE cookbook was a howling success that spawned a wonderful pair of posters created by Mark Miller. This full-color handbook presents an expansion of the posters' information in book form, covering 100 chiles (50 each of fresh and dried), each with a color photograph, hotness scale, and brief description. THE GREAT CHILE BOOK also includes background information, an...(展开全部)

[美]加布里埃尔·温伯格（Gabriel Weinberg） “鸭鸭搜索”（DuckDuckGo）的首席执行官及创始人（“鸭鸭搜索”是一个不会追踪用户搜索记录的搜索引擎）。他拥有麻省理工学院的物理学学士学位，以及麻省理工学院的技术与政策硕士学位。与人合著有《拉新：快速实现用户增长》（Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth）。 [美]劳伦·麦肯（Lauren McCann） 统计学家及研究员。从事设计临床试验和分析其成果工作近十年，并在《新英格兰医学杂志》（New England Journal of Medicine）等多本医学期刊上发表过文章。她拥有麻省理工学院的运筹学博士学位和数学荣誉学士学位。