An exquisite new book, featuring a boy and his moose, from internationally best-selling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers. "Wilfred owned a moose. He hadn't always owned a moose. The moose came to him a while ago and he knew, just KNEW, that it was meant to be his. He thought he would call him Marcel." Most of the time Marcel is very obedient, abiding by...(展开全部)

WINNER of the Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year 2012 and the Honour Award for Illustration from Childrens' Books Ireland, 2013. An exquisite new book, featuring a boy and his moose, from internationally bestselling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers. "Wilfred owned a moose. He hadn't always owned a moose. The moose came to him a while ago and ...(展开全部)

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man ...(展开全部)

GARTH GREENWELL is the author of Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow in fiction.

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual pred...(展开全部)

Since the introduction of the personal computer in the early 1980s, many objects have been designed to have capabilities well beyond their immediate use or appearance. Whether openly and actively or in subtle, subliminal ways, these objects talk to us, and we have come to expect interaction with them. Contemporary designers, besides giving objects form and function, write their...(展开全部)

The author of The New Read-Aloud Handbook presents a collection of fifty read-aloud selections from such well-loved tales as Bambi, Charlotte's Web, Ozma of Oz, Ramona the Pest, Where the Red Fern Grows, James and the Giant Peach, and Gentle Ben.

Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature. Semiotic theory can, however, appear mysterious and impenetrable. This introductory book decodes that mystery using visual examples instead of abstract theory. This new edition ...(展开全部)

符号学是关于标识、符号的理论。符号之间，存在着不可思议的差异性：从指明目的地的简单路标符号，到警示人们预防火灾的烟雾符号，再到暗含在艺术与文学中、有文学背景和象征意义的符号。阅读符号是我们日常生活非常重要的组成部分，然而符号学却常常被看作是一门神秘的科学。这本导论性质的书籍，采用了具体可见的实例而不是抽象的理论，为我们揭开符号学的神秘面纱。 本书一共罗列了75项符号学中关键性的概念，书中的每一部分都以一幅图像或符号开始，并配以一个问题，来带动我们表达出我们所看见的东西。翻过书页，我们便可以将自己的诠释与该符号背后所蕴含的理论进行比对。通过这样的方式，我们能够积极地调动自己创造性的思维。 不论是一口气将整本书读完，还是平时信手翻阅，你都可以从这本书中读到很多实用的例子，它们解释了在当下的文化中，意义是如何被制造呈现的。