在线阅读本书 Hugo Cabret，这个住在巴黎火车站巨墙内的孤儿，靠着社会救济金和行窃，勉强过日。但他看似简陋而清苦的生活，其实却隐藏了一个极大的秘密。但这个秘密，却无意间被火车站的玩具零售商和一个热爱书籍的小女孩发现了。Hugo该怎么做，才能不让他隐藏的身份被揭露呢？而他的真实身份又是什么呢？这本New York Times童书最佳销售排行榜上，连续十周让哈利波特也敬陪末座的魔幻故事，结合了绘本和小说的两种特性，超过三百页的连续插画，让整本书看起来像是部小型的动画电影，生动地将这个少年的魔幻人生呈现出来。 Book Description Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his su...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Hugo Cabret，这个住在巴黎火车站巨墙内的孤儿，靠着社会救济金和行窃，勉强过日。但他看似简陋而清苦的生活，其实却隐藏了一个极大的秘密。但这个秘密，却无意间被火车站的玩具零售商和一个热爱书籍的小女孩发现了。Hugo该怎么做，才能不让他隐藏的身份被揭露呢？而他的真实身份又是什么呢？这本New York Times童书最佳销售排行榜上，连续十周让哈利波特也敬陪末座的魔幻故事，结合了绘本和小说的两种特性，超过三百页的连续插画，让整本书看起来像是部小型的动画电影，生动地将这个少年的魔幻人生呈现出来。 Book Description Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his su...(展开全部)

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Inspired by Bioy Casares's fas...(展开全部)

"Heterosexuality," assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923 the term "he...(展开全部)

Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish ‘national culture’; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...(展开全部)

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his analy...(展开全部)

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his anal...(展开全部)

"One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death". So begins THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man's elusive character. Later the book shifts from Auster's identity as son to his own...(展开全部)

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored...(展开全部)