Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war. In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted to join the mujahedeen to fight the Soviets. The resulting book wasn...(展开全部)

本文选自白先勇小说集《纽约客》。八十年代的纽约曼哈顿，一家名为“Tea for Two”的同志酒吧，是许多漂泊灵魂的“欢乐天堂”。华人青年“罗”在这里与中美混血少年安弟相遇，酒吧老板大伟与东尼更是相守半生的爱侣。他们相濡以沫，在异国构建了一个温暖的小世界。 然而，艾滋病的阴影悄然降临。这场突如其来的瘟疫，无情地击碎了他们的乐园。面对死亡与离散，这群边缘人用最后的生命，守护着爱与尊严，谱写了一曲悲壮而深情的时代挽歌。

本文选自白先勇小说集《纽约客》。八十年代的纽约曼哈顿，一家名为“Tea for Two”的同志酒吧，是许多漂泊灵魂的“欢乐天堂”。华人青年“罗”在这里与中美混血少年安弟相遇，酒吧老板大伟与东尼更是相守半生的爱侣。他们相濡以沫，在异国构建了一个温暖的小世界。 然而，艾滋病的阴影悄然降临。这场突如其来的瘟疫，无情地击碎了他们的乐园。面对死亡与离散，这群边缘人用最后的生命，守护着爱与尊严，谱写了一曲悲壮而深情的时代挽歌。

Welcome to an amusement park unlike any you’ve seen before. With this eye-popping, astounding debut, Mark Rogalski guides us through an amazing menagerie of one-of-a-kind attractions. From Alligators in the Air, through to the Zebra Zeppelin, the reader is provided with an elegant ticket that admits them onto rides at turns thrilling, mysterious, spectacular—and always breathta...(展开全部)

Welcome to an amusement park unlike any you’ve seen before. With this eye-popping, astounding debut, Mark Rogalski guides us through an amazing menagerie of one-of-a-kind attractions. From Alligators in the Air, through to the Zebra Zeppelin, the reader is provided with an elegant ticket that admits them onto rides at turns thrilling, mysterious, spectacular—and always breathta...(展开全部)

Clover is an inspiring picture book about decision-making and self-trust when you’re all alone, by critically acclaimed creators Nadine Robert and Qin Leng. Around Clover’s family’s goat farm, there are plenty of things to do, from picking blueberries to collecting clams. But making decisions, even choosing something to do, is a great source of hesitation for young Clover—that ...(展开全部)

丹尼丝•I.马图卡，美国著名儿童早期教育家、文学家、图画书理论研究者、图书馆员。一生致力于儿童阅读的研究和推广，经常作为志愿者、故事阿姨、故事讲读人给孩子们讲故事，在图画书理论方面，尤有深入的研究、独到的见解和透彻的审美眼光。已出版两本图画书理论专著——《写给青少年的图画书》（Picture This:Picture Books For Young Adults）和《图画书宝典》。这两部专著，皆为图画书的出版和阅读推广起到非常重要的助力作用。 为了撰写这部《图画书宝典》，她共参考了500多本类型各异的图画书，不仅探讨了图画书的艺术技法、媒材和视觉元素，还为我们梳理了图画书的发展简史、出版程序、专业术语以及各种图画书奖项。她试图用通俗易懂的叙述、整体一致的术语和图例，来为普通读者提供阅读和欣赏图画书的方法，提供在学术专著和论文之外的一道“通往令人兴奋的...(展开全部)

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black...(展开全部)

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black...(展开全部)

Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the 20th century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, but the most popular of them all will be, without doubt, the play with which he first ma...(展开全部)