Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he woul...(展开全部)

Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? Have sex? Smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your he...(展开全部)

The maverick cultural entrepreneur Li Yu survived the tumultuous Ming-Qing dynastic transition of the mid-seventeenth century through a commercially successful practice founded on intermedial experimentation. He engaged an astonishingly broad variety of cultural forms: from theatrical performance and literary production to fashion and wellness; from garden and interior design t...(展开全部)

On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, an...(展开全部)

「週刊ファミ通」連載中の『プラトニックチェーン』のイラストをはじめ、「ぱふ」表紙、『新世紀エヴァンゲリオン』のイラスト、ゲームキャラクターデザイン等、天才絵師―岡崎武士の最新画業を集大成！さらに、映画監督・佐藤嗣麻子原作による幻の名作まんが『爪先立ちて歩く幽霊』を完全収録した、見応え、読み応え十分のイラスト集。CLAMPとのスペシャル対談つき。

"What kind of person do I want my child to be?" There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, ...(展开全部)

"A truly astounding account of suffering and fortitude."--The Times (London)Joe Simpson and his climbing partner， Simon Yates， had just reached the top of a 21，000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck.Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge， breaking his leg. In the hours that followed， darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend ...(展开全部)