An essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium—winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology. From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, Mother Media tells the story of how our contemporary understanding of what a mother is came to be and how understandings of “bad” moth...(展开全部)

Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was "Cool Britannia." Records sold in the millions, a new celebrity elite emerged, and Tony Blair's Labour Party found itself returned t...(展开全部)

Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die—so some fear—at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their careers, in one of the many academic programs that now offer jazz degrees. School for Cool is their story. Going inside the halls of two o...(展开全部)

Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a c...(展开全部)

On a momentous visit to the aquarium, Elliot discovers his dream pet: a penguin. It's just proper enough for a straight-laced boy like him. And when he asks his father if he may have one (please and thank you), his father says yes. Elliot should have realized that Dad probably thought he meant a stuffed penguin and not a real one . . . Clever illustrations and a wild surprise e...(展开全部)

托妮·布茨欧 托妮以前在学校图书馆工作过十六年，现为全职作家。有一次，她去访问一所小学，在教师办公室听到了一个男孩和他偷来的企鹅的趣闻，便一下子爱上了这个都市传奇，由此创作了这部作品。托妮有很多非常受欢迎的作品，包括《灯塔上的圣诞节》《安妮去幼儿园的大冒险》《安妮去工作的大冒险》《水手箱》《准备好了吗，闲逛的小鸭子》《小笨蛋和爸爸》等。 戴维·斯莫尔 戴维的作品《如果你想当总统……》获得了凯迪克金奖，《园丁》（文字作者是他的妻子和亲密的合作伙伴萨拉·斯图尔特）获得了凯迪克银奖，以图像小说形式创作的自传《缝不起来的童年》获得了美国国家图书奖提名。同时他也是儿童文学作品《妞妞的鹿角》的文字作者和插图作者。另一本书《特别的恐龙日》（文字作者是艾莉丝·布洛奇）荣获E.B.怀特插图奖。迄今为止，戴维已为四十多本书绘制了插图。

Make information memorable with creative visual design techniques Research shows that visual information is more quickly and easily understood, and much more likely to be remembered. This innovative book presents the design process and the best software tools for creating infographics that communicate. Including a special section on how to construct the increasingly popular in...(展开全部)

A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered—the Kyoto Protocol, for example—have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little impact on the world's temperatur...(展开全部)