The award-winning author of Fifteen Dogs conjures up worlds―real, invented, uncanny ―in this ingenious, electrifying collection. A Trinidadian obeah man finds himself reborn, a hundred years after his death, in the body of a Canadian child; a writer takes up a seasonal job as a caretaker for a set of mysterious large sacks hanging from the rafters of the houses in a small town;...(展开全部)

作者：[美]罗斯·D. E. 麦克菲（Ross D. E. MacPhee），古哺乳动物学家，自1988年以来在位于纽约的美国自然历史博物馆工作。他走遍世界各地，完成了50多次科学踏勘，足迹远至南北两极。 绘者：[澳]彼得·斯考滕（Peter Schouten），一位自学成才的画家，主攻自然历史插图，曾为多部图书绘制插图，他的作品被全球多家博物馆和艺术馆收藏。 译者：宋阳，毕业于北京大学英语系，从事口笔译工作二十余年，国家一级翻译，业余爱好科普类图书翻译，译有《全球能源大趋势》《30秒看世界》《太空旅行指南》等。

作者：[美]罗斯·D. E. 麦克菲（Ross D. E. MacPhee），古哺乳动物学家，自1988年以来在位于纽约的美国自然历史博物馆工作。他走遍世界各地，完成了50多次科学踏勘，足迹远至南北两极。 绘者：[澳]彼得·斯考滕（Peter Schouten），一位自学成才的画家，主攻自然历史插图，曾为多部图书绘制插图，他的作品被全球多家博物馆和艺术馆收藏。 译者：宋阳，毕业于北京大学英语系，从事口笔译工作二十余年，国家一级翻译，业余爱好科普类图书翻译，译有《全球能源大趋势》《30秒看世界》《太空旅行指南》等。

Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his none-too-distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins. Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism of our mid-century technotopia whil...(展开全部)

Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his none-too-distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins. Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism of our mid-century technotopia whil...(展开全部)

Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.

Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.

Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progress Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around affective attractors. These are much more powerful than the truth val...(展开全部)

That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis' twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, "The World's Wife". Witty and thought-provoking, this is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at the real movers and shakers across history, myth and legend. If you have ever wonder...(展开全部)

A true exploration of world history, The World's History links chronology, themes, and geography in eight units, or parts of study, each emphasizing a single theme--origins, cities, empires, religion, trade, migrations, revolutions, and technology. Geographically, each part covers the entire globe, though specific topics place greater emphasis on specific regions. Rich in prima...(展开全部)