Filled with fun and quirky illustrations by the award-winning Brothers McLeod and featuring contributions from booksellers across the United States and Canada, as well as the author's native UK, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores is a celebration of bookstores, large and small, and of the brilliant booksellers who toil in those literary fields, as well as the myriad of co...(展开全部)

'Can books conduct electricity?' 'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok...isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor. From 'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a boo...(展开全部)

'Can books conduct electricity?' 'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok...isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor. From 'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a boo...(展开全部)

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country. The response to the book from booksellers all over the world has been one of heartfelt agreement: it would appear that customers are saying bizarre things all over the place – from asking for books with photographs of Jesus in them, t...(展开全部)

迈克儿·舍默是《怀疑》杂志的创始人，“怀疑者协会”的会长，月刊《科学美国人》的专栏作家。他经常在加州理工学院主办有关怀疑论的系列演讲，参与制作了电视系列剧《福克斯一家》和《探索未知的世界》。史蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德说：“作为美国重要的怀疑论团体的领导，在弘扬怀疑主义精神的运动中实力雄厚的社会活动家和作家，迈克儿·舍默是美国公众生活中的一个重要人物。”

迈克儿·舍默是《怀疑》杂志的创始人，“怀疑者协会”的会长，月刊《科学美国人》的专栏作家。他经常在加州理工学院主办有关怀疑论的系列演讲，参与制作了电视系列剧《福克斯一家》和《探索未知的世界》。史蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德说：“作为美国重要的怀疑论团体的领导，在弘扬怀疑主义精神的运动中实力雄厚的社会活动家和作家，迈克儿·舍默是美国公众生活中的一个重要人物。”

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Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested him-the ability of the image to evoke memories. Small Things in Silence surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into sma...(展开全部)

“Small Things in Silence” offers a perspective on twenty years in the career of one of Japan’s most important photographers. In the words of Yamamoto himself: “I try to capture moments that no one sees and make a photo from them. When I seen them in print, a new story begins.”

A young woman drifts through a series of one night stands and truncated love affairs. Finding herself in a series of increasingly bizarre situations, she turns her curious and savage eye out on the foibles of the world around her. The men of this world evade and simper, they prey, and preen, and fall hopelessly in love. Through these snapshots we get a biting psychopathology, n...(展开全部)