The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbo...(展开全部)

Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin - two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blu...(展开全部)

This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter's spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates 'the year of the suicides.'

This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the suicides.”

Deluxe, larger-format reissue of this collectible, long out-of-print book. The marriage of David LaChapelle’s vivid, high-octane images with graphic artist, Tadanori Yokoo’s super-saturated designs, is an astonishing showcase for the lollipop giddiness of the original. LaChapelle exaggerates the artificiality of fame and Hollywood culture in a head-on collision of color, plasti...(展开全部)

幻の泉をみつけだせ!!　魔物も人間も慢性の水不足にあえぐ砂漠世界で、悪魔の王子・ベルゼブブと元天才軍人・シバが強力タッグを組み、水源を求めて冒険に旅立った!!　灼熱の荒野で彼らを待ち受けるのは!?

An old man and a young boy, refugees from a civil war, seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, the tale gradually becomes part of their own lives. "Sleepwalking Land", Mia Couto's first novel, was first published in in 1992: an immediate s...(展开全部)

幻の泉をみつけだせ!!　魔物も人間も慢性の水不足にあえぐ砂漠世界で、悪魔の王子・ベルゼブブと元天才軍人・シバが強力タッグを組み、水源を求めて冒険に旅立った!!　灼熱の荒野で彼らを待ち受けるのは!?

Deluxe, larger-format reissue of this collectible, long out-of-print book. The marriage of David LaChapelle’s vivid, high-octane images with graphic artist, Tadanori Yokoo’s super-saturated designs, is an astonishing showcase for the lollipop giddiness of the original. LaChapelle exaggerates the artificiality of fame and Hollywood culture in a head-on collision of color, plasti...(展开全部)