Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular...(展开全部)

Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular...(展开全部)

Award-winning author Dung Kai-cheung weaves together two inventive narratives in this remarkable book. One is the story of a novelist who recounts his family’s history against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s development from the 1930s to the 1990s. Dung builds this story through vignettes about the protagonist’s relationship with technological inventions that shaped his life, as gl...(展开全部)

THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byr...(展开全部)

THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byr...(展开全部)

Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up... When a woeful mouse is swallowed up by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not alone: a duck has already set up digs and, boy, has that duck got it figured out! Turns out it's pretty nice inside the belly of the beast - there's delicious food, elegant table settings and, best of all, dancing. And there's something m...(展开全部)

文/【美】麦克·巴内特（Mac Barnett）美国童书作家，1982年出生于加州，毕业于波莫纳学院。巴内特创作过多本绘本，还有一系列的儿童冒险小说，曾获爱伦坡文学奖最佳童书。作品包括《比利·推特尔和他的蓝鲸问题》《再猜猜！》《哦，不!》等。和乔恩·克拉森合作多本图画书，更曾荣获美国凯迪克银牌奖、怀特朗读绘本奖等多项大奖。麦克还是洛杉矶回声公园“时光之旅”商店的创始人，还是“LA826”组织成员，这个组织是一个提供写作训练和指导的非营利机构。 图/【加】乔恩·克拉森（Jon Klassen）乔恩·克拉森，出生于加拿大，现定居美国加州洛杉矶市。他曾经为动画长片、音乐录像带和杂志书刊等绘图，是一位知名的插画家和设计师。他曾在梦工厂动画制片公司、莱卡动画公司工作，并为英国广播公司设计2010年在温哥华举办的冬季奥运会广告动画，赢得英国最大动画奖——影艺学院...(展开全部)

This book presents Alessandra Sanguinetti’s return to rural Argentina to continue her intimate collaboration with Belinda and Guillermina, two cousins who, as girls, were the subjects of the first book in her ongoing series, The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams. In this second volume, The Illusion of An Everlasting Summer, we follow Gui...(展开全部)

This is the story or, more accurately, part of the story, of two young cousins named Guille and Belinda. In 1999, when they were 10 and 9 years old and living in a rural province of Buenos Aires, their paths crossed with photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti. Drawn to the girls, whose evident affection for each other is somehow magnified by their mismatched physiques, Sanguinetti...(展开全部)

Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, C...(展开全部)