On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man ...(展开全部)

GARTH GREENWELL is the author of Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow in fiction.

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual pred...(展开全部)

Psychologist Seligman ( Learned Optimism ) here examines common psychological disorders according to their biological and societal, or learned, components. Most enlightening are his analyses of the effectiveness of relaxation, meditation, psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies in the treatment of anxiety, which, along with depression and anger, he claims, can largely be control...(展开全部)

查爾斯．雷德（Charles Reid，1937-） 世界知名水彩大師，畫風清新自然，充分展現本身對於光影與色彩的深厚造詣，以及專業精湛的繪畫能力。生於美國紐約州劍橋村，曾於佛蒙特大學和紐約藝術學生聯盟修讀藝術。雷德獲獎無數，包括美國藝術與文學學院的柴爾德‧哈薩姆收藏獎，以及美國國家設計學院、美國水彩協會等眾多獎項。 雷德於一九八○年取得美國畫家最高殊榮，獲選為美國國家設計學院院士。其作品深受大眾喜愛，並獲得各大機構及收藏家爭相收藏，其中包含史密斯學院、黃石藝術中心、楊百翰大學、羅氏企業和美國國家設計學院。除了繪畫創作外，雷德還在全球各地教授研習班，並著有十餘本與水彩和油畫相關的書籍。 審訂者簡介 簡忠威 出生基隆。輔仁大學應用美術系畢業，台灣師範大學美術研究所西畫創作碩士，現任玄奘大學榮譽客座副教授。為首位入圍美國水彩畫協會AWS國際年展的台灣水彩...(展开全部)

An exquisite new book, featuring a boy and his moose, from internationally best-selling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers. "Wilfred owned a moose. He hadn't always owned a moose. The moose came to him a while ago and he knew, just KNEW, that it was meant to be his. He thought he would call him Marcel." Most of the time Marcel is very obedient, abiding by...(展开全部)

WINNER of the Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year 2012 and the Honour Award for Illustration from Childrens' Books Ireland, 2013. An exquisite new book, featuring a boy and his moose, from internationally bestselling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers. "Wilfred owned a moose. He hadn't always owned a moose. The moose came to him a while ago and ...(展开全部)

Explore the gray areas in your gray matter—philosophical brainteasers from the bestselling author of The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? The author of the international bestseller The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten and his fellow founding editor of The Philosopher’s Magazine have some thought-provoking questions...(展开全部)

自卑情结：人在某个难以解决的问题面前感到力不从心的情绪。自卑情结有各种表现方式，哭泣、气氛、愧疚等都包括其中。 作为个体心理学的重要发现，自卑情结相当知名。大量心理学家承认了该名词，还利用自己觉得恰当的方法将其应用到现实中。 大量精神病人都否定自己存在自卑情结，更有甚者，觉得自己比身边的人更有骄傲的底气，据此彻底否定该事实。 自卑情结并不病态，还能提高人的地位。人们时常发觉，自己的处境有改善的空间，因此所有人都存在自卑情结，只是程度不一。

We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the world around us, and find respite from the hectic demands of everyday...(展开全部)