<blockquote>If you had a giraffe and he stretched another half … you would have a giraffe and a half. And if you glued a rose to the tip of his nose … And … if he put on a shoe and then stepped in some glue … And if he used a chair to comb his hair … </blockquote> And so it goes until … but that would be telling. Children will be kept in stitches until the very end,...(展开全部)

艾莉·布罗什 Allie Brosh 漫画家，卧室隐居者，爱狗。 在画这本书的时候，还在和抑郁症顽强斗争。

To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through history. Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the West over the past 2,500 years is far from self-evident. In A Short History of European Law, Tamar Herzog offers a new road map that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By identifying what European law was, where i...(展开全部)

Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, "An Obscure Man" is the story of Nathanael--innocent, open to experience--born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In "A Lovely Morning," Nathanael's young son joins a touring company of Jacobean actors. "Anna, soror . . .," the final tale, is an account of illicit passion in the baroque world of Naples. ""An Obscure Man" swarms with life. This...(展开全部)

The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - se...(展开全部)

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul） 英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后迁居伦敦。50年代开始写作，作品以小说、游记、文论为主，主要有《毕司沃斯先生的房子》、《米格尔街》、《自由国度》、《河湾》与“印度三部曲”等。作品在全球享有盛誉，半个世纪里，将里斯奖、毛姆奖、史密斯奖、布克奖、大卫•柯恩文学奖等一一收入囊中。1990年，被英女王封为爵士。2001年，荣获诺贝尔文学奖。同年《半生》出版。

In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vo...(展开全部)

【作者简介】： 迈克尔·约翰逊（Michael Johnson）是伦敦约翰逊库创意咨询公司的创始人兼创意策略总监。他曾学习市场营销和设计，曾就职于沃尔夫·奥林斯公司，并于1992年成立了约翰逊库创意咨询公司。约翰逊和他的公司屡获大奖，声名远扬，已经从黄铅笔奖赛事上获得了七支“黄铅笔”和一支“黑铅笔”。约翰逊是伦敦维多利亚与阿尔伯特博物馆举办的黄铅笔奖40年回顾展“倒带”（Rewind）的发起人、联合策展人和贡献者。他被《卫报》（Guardian）和《独立报》（Independent）评为英国最著名的设计师之一。他在世界各地进行讲座，三次入选《设计周刊》（Design Week）“坐标50人”设计大师排行榜。

From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a captivating collection of short essays about your brain, in the tradition of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized stor...(展开全部)

寫作長達45年的文學大師，英語文學最受矚目的作家，透過精準自持、含蓄優雅的語言，糅合經驗與想像，述說一個世人皆可感的雋永旅程。 威利誕生於階級嚴明的印度，父親因響應甘地的號召，捨棄婆羅門種姓和較低階層的母親結婚。威利帶著混雜的血統從印度鄉下飛往繁華倫敦，發現自己不只面對血統的衝突，還有外來移民的陰影，不過這些都化成他寫作的泉源。