I have learned many words for ‘island’: isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a civilisation grown inland from the sea, the vastness of mountains was a better analogue: (dao, ‘island’) built from the relati...(展开全部)

Books fulfil myriad functions in our lives. They provide information, foster our enthusiasms and spark our memories. But these personal treasures also add colour and a true sense of personality to our homes. Books Make a Home explores the important role they play as Decoration, as well as functional items. Author and bibliophile Damian Thompson tours the rooms of the home in tu...(展开全部)

Dozens of books have been published recently on the errors and biases that affect our judgments and choices. Drawing on cognitive science, their lessons are excellent for many kinds of decisions - consumer choice and financial investments, for example - but stop short of addressing many of the most important decisions we face in management, where we can actively influence outco...(展开全部)

Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil Rosenzweig shows, for many of the most important, more complex situations we face — in ...(展开全部)

Torts and other Wrongs is a collection of eleven of the author's essays on the theory of the law of torts and its place in the law more generally. Two new essays accompany nine previously published pieces, a number of which are already established classics of theoretical writing on private law. Together they range across the distinction between torts and other wrongs, the moral...(展开全部)

贝基·戴维斯，英国儿童图书作家，同时也是一名童书编辑，出版作品《小海龟改变海洋》《晚安森林》《我的羊驼在哪里》等，现居英格兰西南部。 帕特里夏·胡，平面设计师、插画家，出生于哥伦比亚，来自一个传统的中国家庭，她的插画色彩活泼、细节丰富，作品中也经常展现出中国文化元素，目前已有多部作品出版。

《A Tale of Two Cities(双城记)》内容简介：狄更斯（1812-1870），英国十九世纪文豪。《双城记》堪称他迟暮之年的巅峰之作。法国大革命时期，名医马奈特偶然目睹了封建贵族埃弗瑞蒙德兄弟草营人命的暴行，因为打抱不平，反被投入巴士底狱，监禁了十八年。出狱后，马奈特之女露茜却与仇家的儿子达奈堕入情网。于是，在法国革命的旋涡中，一幕幕家族的恩怨情仇隆重上演，善、恶、生、死在冲突中交融，在转瞬间变换……《双城记》结构严整，语言凝练，狄更斯对革命与人性的深度思考和令人叹为观止的写作才华，在其中得到了淋漓尽致的展现。 The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growi...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Maxwell.

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The only novel by avant-garde literary star Jane Bowles, the highly influential wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles, Two Serious Ladies is a modernist cult classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, that follows two "respectable" women as they descend into debauchery—updated with an introduction by Claire Messud, bestselling author of The Emperor's Children and The Wo...(展开全部)