Following on the heels of Martin Parr’s limited-edition, album-style publication Life’s a Beach, Aperture now presents this beach-friendly mini edition. Parr has been photographing the topic of the beach for many decades, documenting sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge and the eternal sandy picnic. His international career, in fact, could well be traced to the p...(展开全部)

蕾切尔·卡斯克（Rachel Cusk, 1967.2.8— ），英国作家，毕业于牛津大学新学院。1993年，她凭《拯救阿格尼丝》（Saving Agnes）获得了当年惠特布莱特最佳小说处女作奖。2003年，她被《格兰塔》选为“20名最佳英国小说家”。 她出版过九部小说和三本非虚构作品。本书为她第一部非虚构作品。 译者黄建树，生于宜昌，现居武汉。现为出版社文学编辑，业余时间读书，买书，译文，以及养娃。

〔澳〕切斯特·威尔莫特，战地记者，历史学家。曾任职于澳大利亚广播公司（ABC）与英国广播公司（BBC）。1941 年，在北非、希腊和叙利亚的战役中，他是前线采访的先锋。在报道太平洋战争时，他陪同澳大利亚军队沿着科科达小道进行艰苦的战斗。1944 年，在为 BBC做报道时，他乘坐滑翔机在诺曼底登陆日 (6 月 6 日 ) 登陆法国，很快因报道了英国许多重大军事行动而名声大噪。1945 年 5 月，他出席了德国投降，并在纽伦堡审判时担任 BBC 特别记者。

〔澳〕切斯特·威尔莫特，战地记者，历史学家。曾任职于澳大利亚广播公司（ABC）与英国广播公司（BBC）。1941 年，在北非、希腊和叙利亚的战役中，他是前线采访的先锋。在报道太平洋战争时，他陪同澳大利亚军队沿着科科达小道进行艰苦的战斗。1944 年，在为 BBC做报道时，他乘坐滑翔机在诺曼底登陆日 (6 月 6 日 ) 登陆法国，很快因报道了英国许多重大军事行动而名声大噪。1945 年 5 月，他出席了德国投降，并在纽伦堡审判时担任 BBC 特别记者。

In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of...(展开全部)

Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better, all things considered, to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions -- and some people are plagued by them. Surprisingly, analytic philosophers have said relatively little about these important questions about the meanin...(展开全部)

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us.” —The Wall Street Journal “Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions […] and have fun doing so.” —Science Magazine From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense app...(展开全部)

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us.” —The Wall Street Journal “Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions […] and have fun doing so.” —Science Magazine From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense app...(展开全部)

纳撒尼尔•拉胥梅耶，1969年12月2日出生。父亲于1995年过世时，他25岁。同年踏上探索父亲内心疯狂风暴之旅，写下处女作《当天使穿着黑衣出现》。曾与“国际安徒生大奖”得主澳洲插画大师罗伯•英潘（Robert Ingpen）合作绘本《破碎的鸟喙》（Broken Beaks）。他也是一位经常发表关于精神疾病和流浪问题、具有影响力的演讲家。