贾森·帕金（1975— ），笔名王大卫，美国惊悚、科幻小说家，《纽约时报》畅销书作者。2001年，身为律师事务所员工的贾森·帕金在网络上连载处女作惊悚小说——《最后约翰死了》，获得大量读者喜爱，由此被出版社发掘，该书出版后不久便被改编成同名邪典电影。之后，贾森·帕金在幽默网站Cracked.com担任高级编辑。他的作品常带有诙谐、讽刺、想象力天马行空等特点，极具个人特色。代表作有《最后约翰死了》《本书充满蜘蛛》《未来城市与花哨西装》等，其中《未来城市与花哨西装》荣获美国图书馆协会颁发的亚历克斯奖。

贾森·帕金（1975— ），笔名王大卫，美国惊悚、科幻小说家，《纽约时报》畅销书作者。2001年，身为律师事务所员工的贾森·帕金在网络上连载处女作惊悚小说——《最后约翰死了》，获得大量读者喜爱，由此被出版社发掘，该书出版后不久便被改编成同名邪典电影。之后，贾森·帕金在幽默网站Cracked.com担任高级编辑。他的作品常带有诙谐、讽刺、想象力天马行空等特点，极具个人特色。代表作有《最后约翰死了》《本书充满蜘蛛》《未来城市与花哨西装》等，其中《未来城市与花哨西装》荣获美国图书馆协会颁发的亚历克斯奖。

贾森·帕金（1975— ），笔名王大卫，美国惊悚、科幻小说家，《纽约时报》畅销书作者。2001年，身为律师事务所员工的贾森·帕金在网络上连载处女作惊悚小说——《最后约翰死了》，获得大量读者喜爱，由此被出版社发掘，该书出版后不久便被改编成同名邪典电影。之后，贾森·帕金在幽默网站Cracked.com担任高级编辑。他的作品常带有诙谐、讽刺、想象力天马行空等特点，极具个人特色。代表作有《最后约翰死了》《本书充满蜘蛛》《未来城市与花哨西装》等，其中《未来城市与花哨西装》荣获美国图书馆协会颁发的亚历克斯奖。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to ...(展开全部)

Jack Goody's new book takes as its theme the symbolic and transactional uses of flowers in secular life and religious ritual from ancient Egypt to modern times. He links the use of flowers to the rise of advanced systems of agriculture, the growth of social stratification, and the spread of luxury goods, looking at the history of aesthetic horticulture in Europe and Asia. Other...(展开全部)

夏尔·波德莱尔（Charles Baudelair, 1821-1867），法国诗人。作品有诗集《恶之花》和散文诗集《巴黎的忧郁》，另写有大量文学和美学论文。他被认为是使欧洲人的经验方式和写作方式发生重大变革的作家，他的美学理论在诗歌和艺术史上是一个重大转折点，是现代主义各流派灵感与理论的不尽泉源。

December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and...(展开全部)

The night is a subject of wonder and endless curiosity to all little children. Here, exactly for them, are all its sounds, mysteries and indescribably special feelings. Illustrated.

There was once a little raccoon who wanted to go out in the night -- to know an owl, to see if the moon is a rabbit, and to find out how dark is the dark. But his mother said, "Wait. Wait till the moon is full." So the little raccoon waited and wondered, while the moon got bigger and bigger and bigger. Until at last, on a very special evening, the moon was full.

We’ve all seen red roses, blue irises, and yellow daffodils. But when we really look closely at a flower, whole new worlds of beauty and intricacy emerge. Using a unique process that far surpasses conventional macro photography, Robert Llewellyn shows us details that few of us have ever seen: the amazing architecture of stamens and pistils; the subtle shadings on a petal; the s...(展开全部)