From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

A tale of counterterrorism from an author who "ranks with Graham Greene in his knowledge of espionage and the human heart" (Publishers Weekly). Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission—to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman." Ferris's plan for gett...(展开全部)

From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

From the bestselling author of A Lion in Paris comes this beautifully illustrated celebration of what makes each child unique. Through bold and sensitively observed portraits and a thought-provoking text, Beatrice Alemagna inspires children, and adults reading with them, to consider their own identity. Destined to become a classic, What Is a Child? is a must-have for every scho...(展开全部)

比尔·布莱森 BILL BRYSON 代表作是科普巨著《万物简史》，全球销量超千万，简体中文销量破百万。 英国皇家学会荣誉院士，詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖等多个文学奖获得者，更因文学贡献获得大英帝国官佐勋章。 布莱森“十七年磨一剑”，《万物简史》出版后，再度推出科普巨著《人体简史》。17年间，他不但查阅了大量的材料，还亲身探访了牛津大学、哈佛大学、斯坦福大学、宾州大学、乌德勒支的马克西玛公主儿童癌症中心等18个国际领先的学术研究和医疗机构，与38个医学领域内的国际顶尖学者、专家、医生进行深度访谈，足迹遍布英国、美国、荷兰。《人体简史》一经出版，不但得到了普通读者的喜爱，更是得到了医学权威人士的肯定，诺丁汉医学院的安格斯·布朗教授称赞：“布赖森咨询了一群令人印象深刻的国际医学专家，将他们的专业知识和独特观点作为资料来源，这无疑增加了本书的严谨性...(展开全部)

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions...(展开全部)

Techniques on how to gain greater fluidity of movement while playing to improve the quality of the experience are offered in this manual for serious piano players. This book encourages musicians to develop a broader understanding of the involvement of the entire body in playing -- and the strains playing places on the body -- by focusing on body mapping to increase awareness of...(展开全部)

Freud's question is at the root of his discoveries about the unconscious. Serge André says that a woman wants the truth, and, in this subtle and highly original comparison of Freud and Lacan, he explains why.

"Jacques Derrida, notorious for producing intensely difficult works on aspects of the history of philosophy, here shows himself in another light dealing concretely and practically with some of the pressing social and political issues of our day." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus philosophiques “For what tomorrow will be, no one knows,” writes Victor Hugo. This dialogue, pro...(展开全部)