马特·西蒙｜Matt Simon 《连线》（Wired）杂志科普专栏作家，美国图书馆协会亚历克斯奖得主，专攻动物学科普，尤其了解那些奇异的物种。西蒙是一名媒体工作者，也是科普及科技作家，由他撰写的《连线》杂志科学专栏“怪诞生物每周科考”（Absurd Creature of the Week）颇受好评。另外，他在《连线》的第二个专栏“难以置信的错误”（Fantastically Wrong）则探讨了民间文学和科学中那些最稀奇古怪的错误。

马特·西蒙｜Matt Simon 《连线》（Wired）杂志科普专栏作家，美国图书馆协会亚历克斯奖得主，专攻动物学科普，尤其了解那些奇异的物种。西蒙是一名媒体工作者，也是科普及科技作家，由他撰写的《连线》杂志科学专栏“怪诞生物每周科考”（Absurd Creature of the Week）颇受好评。另外，他在《连线》的第二个专栏“难以置信的错误”（Fantastically Wrong）则探讨了民间文学和科学中那些最稀奇古怪的错误。

Problem Solved Expert fixes for not-quite-right watercolors. As one of today's most sought-after workshop instructors, Charles Reid knows the most common stumbling blocks faced by artists and the best ways to overcome them. With expert advice on everything from drawing and design to fine-tuning figure and landscape paintings, "Charles Reid's Watercolor Solutions" will help you...(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)

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrat...(展开全部)

Johnny Orchard brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors.

Johnny Orchard brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors.

Johnny Orchard brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors. "Some of his best pictures supplement the story . . . An outstanding book in every way".--The Horn Book. Caldecott Medal Book.

在线阅读本书 Johnny Orchard brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors.