After completing the shooting of Sleeping by the Mississippi in 2002, Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl. While the courts processed paperwork, he and his wife spent two months in the capital city waiting to take their new baby home. “The baby’s birth mother gave the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. I hope that the hardness of...(展开全部)

After completing the shooting of Sleeping by the Mississippi in 2002, Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl. While the courts processed paperwork, he and his wife spent two months in the capital city waiting to take their new baby home. “The baby’s birth mother gave the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. I hope that the hardness of...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). An explosive novel of the drug trade, The Power of the Dog , takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father ...(展开全部)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)

The perfect gift for Hockney fans and dog lovers everywhere, "David Hockney's Dog Days", now in a gift edition, is an album devoted to two of the artist's closest friends, his dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie. This beautiful and engaging book includes almost all of Hockney's paintings and drawings of his two companions, dozens of new illustrations created specially for this book,...(展开全部)

Spanning the years from the rise of the Mexican drug Federación in the 1970s to the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s to the vicious drug wars of the 1990s, the action ranges from Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen and the halls of Washington to the streets of Tijuana and the deserts of the American Southwest. The players: a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, a priest. Caugh...(展开全部)

The eagerly-awaited next instalment in the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series has arrived - publishing for the very first time in the UK in hardback! Split your sides laughing as Greg Heffley struggles with all the trials and tribulations of school, family and friends that come with being everyone's favourite wimpy kid.

伯特兰·罗素(1872—1970)，英国著名的哲学家、数学家、文学家和社会活动家，先后执教于剑桥大学、哈佛大学、芝加哥大学、加州大学等世界知名高等学府，是20世纪西方社会最著名且拥有最广泛读者的思想大师，被称为“世纪的智者”。爱因斯坦曾说：“阅读罗素的作品，是我一生中最快乐的时光之一。”60年代罗素曾将他的巨著《西方哲学史》一书寄赠给中国伟人毛泽东，而《西方的智慧》正是在此基础上勾勒新意，笔耕而成。

Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 at Blankenburg, Germany. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history at Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations...(展开全部)

林·亨特（Lynn Hunt）获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校欧洲现代史欧根·韦伯（Eugen Weber）讲席教授。著有、编有若干著作，包括最近的《发明人权》（Inventing Human Righis，2007）和《度量时间，制作历史》（Measuring Time，Making Histony，2008）。其与他人合写的有关18世纪早期欧洲之宗教宽容的著作在印刷中。 托马斯·R. 马丁（Thomas R. Martin）获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，圣十字学院古典学杰里迈亚·奥康纳（Jeremiah O'Connor）讲席教授。著有《古典希腊的主权与硬币》（Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece，1985）、《古代希腊》（Ancien Greece，1996，2000）。“珀修斯：古...(展开全部)