文图作者： Kazuno Kohara：小原胜野，来自日本的绘本插画家，这是他的第一本创作，在本书中他以橘、黑与白色三个色调为主，完成了这一本充满乐趣与一点点惊悚的万圣节绘本。该书出版后获得的2008年，纽约时报书评週刊的十本年度选书之一。 这本书被描述为纽约时报书评家Editor Gregory Cowles描述为“甜蜜而美好”。

In a big old house at the edge of town there's a spooky surprise in store...But who's afraid of a few ghosts? Not this little girl! With a highly original artwork style that's perfect for Halloween, this quirky and very funny story marks the debut of a new talent in picture books. 点击链接进入中文版： 飘着幽灵的小房子

卡尔·萨根博士是美国康奈尔大学的天文学教授。同时他又是世界著名的科普作家。他对科学的精辟见解使他成为“唯一能够用简单扼要的语言说明科学是什么”的科学家。他成为本世纪最有影响的人物。 卡尔·爱德华·萨根于1934年11月9日生于纽约布鲁克林市，于1955年在芝加哥大学获得物理学学士学位，1956年获得物理学硕士学位，1960年获得天文学和天文物理学博士学位。从60年代早期他就在哈佛大学执教。1971年任康奈尔大学正教授。1996年12月20日，这位当代最伟大的科学家和科普作家在与骨髓癌抗争了两年之后，在福莱德·胡钦斯癌症研究中心与世长辞，年仅62岁。 卡尔·萨根一生研究成果惊人。他的研究重点为金星上的温室效应、火星上的季节变化、原子战争所造成的长期环境影响、地球上的生命起源、外星智能生命探索等。他是宇宙生物学的创始人和开拓者之一。长期以来他一直...(展开全部)

让•热内（Jean Genet 1910—1986），法国作家。出生后被遗弃，在教养院长大。早年流浪、偷窃、卖淫，多次被捕入狱。在狱中开始写作诗歌和小说，包括《死囚》、《鲜花圣母》、《小偷日记》等。作品被纪德、科克托等人发现，叹为天才，他们与萨特等数十位作家联名向法国总统请愿，要求终身赦免热内。出狱后，热内转入戏剧创作，代表作有《女仆》、《阳台》、《屏风》等，声誉鹊起。后参与社会运动，支持被压迫者的反抗，尤其是巴勒斯坦民族解放运动。

a group of aspiring writers brought together for a three-month writer's retreat in an abandoned theater. The novel intersperses the writers' poems and short stories with tales of the indignities they heap upon themselves after deciding to turn their lives into a "true-life horror story with a happy ending." They lock themselves in the theater, reasoning that once they're found,...(展开全部)

a group of aspiring writers brought together for a three-month writer's retreat in an abandoned theater. The novel intersperses the writers' poems and short stories with tales of the indignities they heap upon themselves after deciding to turn their lives into a "true-life horror story with a happy ending." They lock themselves in the theater, reasoning that once they're found,...(展开全部)

"Singularly interesting and stimulating. . . . A passionate and original work of scholarship."—Richard Wollheim, Times Literary Supplement "With the publication [of Rembrandt's Enterprise], Svetlana Alpers has firmly established herself in the front ranks of art historians at work today. . . . The book is not a long one. Yet, there is more perceptive scholarship packed into i...(展开全部)

Throughout theatrical history, almost every element in stage production has been recycled. Indeed any regular theatergoer is familiar with the experience of a performance that conjures the ghosts of previous productions. The Haunted Stage explores this theatrical "deja vu," and examines how it stimulates the spectator's memory. Relating the dynamics of reception to the interact...(展开全部)

The Abbot of a Taoist Monastery is dead after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge calls it murder. Recalling the allegedly accidental deaths of three young women in the same monastery, Judge Dee seeks clues in the eyes of a cat to solve cases of impersonation and murder. A painting by one of the victims reveals the truth abo...(展开全部)