著绘者：派翠西亚·波拉蔻（Patricia Polacco） 美国著名图画书作家。出生于美国密歇根州，但她有多种族血统，外祖父母是俄籍犹太人，祖父母是爱尔兰人，她的个人经历极具传奇色彩。她从小就极具艺术天分，但因为阅读障碍症，求学经历很不顺利，幸而在老师的帮助下，逐渐克服阅读障碍，后来进入俄亥俄州立大学，先后获得美术硕士和美术史博士学位。 41岁开始创作图画书，至今已出版过几十本，并屡获大奖。她的作品多取材于自己的真实经历和日常生活，能够直抵人心，让读者有切身感触；同时，她受到犹太文化、爱尔兰文化、美国文化等多种文化的影响，在作品中也常有体现。她的作品总是将“图”和“文”编织得天衣无缝，深受世界各地读者喜爱。代表作品有《蜜蜂树》《雷公糕》《谢谢您，福柯老师》等。 译者：周英 儿童文学博士，童书编辑，业余偶尔尝试儿童文学创作。已在《中国教育报》《中国...(展开全部)

著绘者：派翠西亚·波拉蔻（Patricia Polacco） 美国著名图画书作家。出生于美国密歇根州，但她有多种族血统，外祖父母是俄籍犹太人，祖父母是爱尔兰人，她的个人经历极具传奇色彩。她从小就极具艺术天分，但因为阅读障碍症，求学经历很不顺利，幸而在老师的帮助下，逐渐克服阅读障碍，后来进入俄亥俄州立大学，先后获得美术硕士和美术史博士学位。 41岁开始创作图画书，至今已出版过几十本，并屡获大奖。她的作品多取材于自己的真实经历和日常生活，能够直抵人心，让读者有切身感触；同时，她受到犹太文化、爱尔兰文化、美国文化等多种文化的影响，在作品中也常有体现。她的作品总是将“图”和“文”编织得天衣无缝，深受世界各地读者喜爱。代表作品有《蜜蜂树》《雷公糕》《谢谢您，福柯老师》等。 译者：周英 儿童文学博士，童书编辑，业余偶尔尝试儿童文学创作。已在《中国教育报》《中国...(展开全部)

When Patricia's Great-Gramma Anna came to America as a child, the only things she brought along from Russia were her dress and the babushka she liked to throw up into the air when she was dancing. Soon enough, though, Anna outgrew the dress and her mother decided to incorporate it and the babushka into a quilt. "It will be like having a family in backhome Russia dance around us...(展开全部)

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and...(展开全部)

Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of ...(展开全部)

保罗·霍尔特（Paul Halter, 1956— ），法国当代侦探小说作家，因坚持本格侦探小说创作而被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。1987年凭借《第四扇门》（La Quatrième Porte）获得科尼亚克侦探小说大奖。陆续创作以“阿兰·图威斯特”（Alan Twist）和“欧文·伯恩斯”（Owen Burns）为主人公的系列作品。其代表作有《第四扇门》《第七重解答》（La Septième Hypothèse）《幻影小巷》（La Ruelle fantôme）等。

The Dupayne， a small private museum on the edge of London s Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39， is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder， old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered， and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even a...(展开全部)

P．D．詹姆斯是英国当代最著名的推理小说女作家，被尊称为“推理小说第一夫人”。出生于1920年的P．D．詹姆斯自1950年开始写作，至今笔耕不辍。她已出版近20部作品，她的大部分作品均被拍成电视剧或电影。 P．D.詹姆斯的作品曾经多次获得英美推理小说奖。1987年荣获有“诺贝尔推理文学奖”之称的英国推理小说家协会“钻石匕首奖”终身成就奖，并受英国皇室勋封为女伯爵，1999年荣获美国推理小说家协会大师奖，也曾获爱伦坡奖。P.D.詹姆斯现任英国作家协会主席。

Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James’s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, witha room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon discovers that the victim ...(展开全部)

A web application involves many specialists, but it takes people in web ops to ensure that everything works together throughout an application's lifetime. It's the expertise you need when your start-up gets an unexpected spike in web traffic, or when a new feature causes your mature application to fail. In this collection of essays and interviews, web veterans such as Theo Schl...(展开全部)