Welcome to Todd McLellan’s unique photographic vision of the material world: fifty design classics—arranged first by size and then by intricacy—are beautifully displayed, piece by piece, exploding in midair and dissected in real-time, frame-by-frame video stills. This book makes visible the inner workings of some of the world’s most iconic designs. From SLR camera to mantel clo...(展开全部)

More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United ...(展开全部)

More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United ...(展开全部)

This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer

This volume gives a complete introduction to the techniques and procedures of Sanskrit commentaries, including detailed information on the overall structure of running commentaries, the standard formulas of analysis of complex grammatical forms, and the most important elements of commentarial style. Since the majority of expository texts in Sanskrit are composed in the form of ...(展开全部)

A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper cla...(展开全部)

露西亚·伯林 LUCIA BERLIN 1936.11.12—2004.11.12 美国作家，1936年出生于阿拉斯加。一生在美国、智利、墨西哥辗转生活，居无定所。有过三次婚姻，独自抚养四个儿子，从事过中学西班牙语教师、电话接线员、病房管理员、急诊室护士、清洁女工 、监狱写作教师等各种职业，一边工作一边创作。2004年于玛琳娜得瑞港去世。 生前共发表76篇短篇小说，故事多基于个人经历写就。由于生活坎坷、不求名利，在世时未得到大众读者的关注，但在文学团体中具有广泛的影响力。直到逝世11年后，《清洁女工手册》出版，这位文学大师才进入大众视野，获得迟来的尊敬和喜爱。

露西亚·伯林 LUCIA BERLIN 1936.11.12—2004.11.12 美国作家，1936年出生于阿拉斯加。一生在美国、智利、墨西哥辗转生活，居无定所。有过三次婚姻，独自抚养四个儿子，从事过中学西班牙语教师、电话接线员、病房管理员、急诊室护士、清洁女工 、监狱写作教师等各种职业，一边工作一边创作。2004年于玛琳娜得瑞港去世。 生前共发表76篇短篇小说，故事多基于个人经历写就。由于生活坎坷、不求名利，在世时未得到大众读者的关注，但在文学团体中具有广泛的影响力。直到逝世11年后，《清洁女工手册》出版，这位文学大师才进入大众视野，获得迟来的尊敬和喜爱。

露西亚·伯林 LUCIA BERLIN 1936.11.12—2004.11.12 美国作家，1936年出生于阿拉斯加。一生在美国、智利、墨西哥辗转生活，居无定所。有过三次婚姻，独自抚养四个儿子，从事过中学西班牙语教师、电话接线员、病房管理员、急诊室护士、清洁女工 、监狱写作教师等各种职业，一边工作一边创作。2004年于玛琳娜得瑞港去世。 生前共发表76篇短篇小说，故事多基于个人经历写就。由于生活坎坷、不求名利，在世时未得到大众读者的关注，但在文学团体中具有广泛的影响力。直到逝世11年后，《清洁女工手册》出版，这位文学大师才进入大众视野，获得迟来的尊敬和喜爱。