In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death… and doesn’t like them much. Illustrated with Briggs’s inimitable pencil drawings, Time for Lights Out is a collection of short pieces, some funny, some melancholy, some remembering his wife who died young, others about the joy of grandchildren, of walking the dog… He looks b...(展开全部)

Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world’s long-standing champion...(展开全部)

讲述的是20世纪50年代末期，一个男人生活在风景如画的加利福尼亚的一个小城镇里，过着简朴的生活，但他却渐渐发现他所居住的整个小城只不过是为了让他感到满足而虚构的一个活动场所……

Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day -- and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life -- indeed his whole world -- is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world l...(展开全部)

Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day -- and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life -- indeed his whole world -- is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world l...(展开全部)

讲述的是20世纪50年代末期，一个男人生活在风景如画的加利福尼亚的一个小城镇里，过着简朴的生活，但他却渐渐发现他所居住的整个小城只不过是为了让他感到满足而虚构的一个活动场所……

Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world’s long-standing champion...(展开全部)

Darkness is falling everywhere and little ones are getting sleepy, feeling cozy, and being tucked in. It's time for a wide yawn, a big hug, and a snuggle under the covers--sleep tight "Working beautifully with the soothingly repetitive text, each painting conveys a warm feeling of safety and affection."--"School Library Journal"

玛格丽特•切尼是一位罕见的、作品内容全面的传记作家。关于特斯拉，她还和罗伯特•乌（Robert Uth）合著有《特斯拉：闪电的主人》（Tesla：Master of Lightning）。此外，她写有伟大的歌舞表演者和歌者马伯尔•梅尔瑟（Mabel Mercer）的传记《马伯尔的午夜》(Midnight at Mabel’s)，以及《此时农场为何：美国连环杀人犯》（Meanwhile Farm and Why：The Serial Killer in America）。现居美国加州。

In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtual...(展开全部)