Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius's father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through ...(展开全部)

In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a Shell, Thom van Dooren offers a collection of snail stories from Hawai'i—once home to more than 750 species of land snails, almost two-thirds of which are now gone. Following snail trails through forests, laboratories, museums, and ...(展开全部)

维基•伍德盖特 Vicky Woodgate 英国作家、插画师。她从事过十年的插画工作，也在电影电视行业和主题公园做过场景艺术家。她一直对野生动物拥有非凡的热情，喜爱旅行和绘制地图。目前她生活在英国的海滨城市布莱顿。

From Morse code to the bones in the human body, this visually stunning collection of facts and figures puts a world of information at your fingertips. How much do clouds weigh? Who invented the pencil? How many ways can you tie a knot? Discover the answers to these and many other questions in this elegant and absorbing miscellany of general knowledge. From music notation to Rom...(展开全部)

[英]理查德•普拉特（Richard Platt），著者，英国知名科普作家。自1992年开始专注创作儿童科普作品，擅长用生动的文字、精彩的事实吸引孩子阅读。已先后出版70余部儿童科普图书。长期与DK、Walker等知名出版机构合作。其作品曾获得蓝彼得童书奖、斯马蒂斯大奖、凯特•格林纳威奖。 [英]詹姆斯•布朗（James Brown），绘者，英国著名版画与插图设计师，拥有丰富创作经验，擅长将“信息可视化”设计理念应用到艺术创作中，长期与V＆A、《卫报》、LV等合作。从小在父母创作童书的环境中长大，有时还会出现在他们的书中。受Walker邀请，将“信息可视化”的设计理念带入童书科普领域。

A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a collection of people held there by ties of kinship or habit, and haunted by the memory of its former owner. During a hot and dry summer, Jane pursues her romantic imaginings, while not far off the rich, promiscuou...(展开全部)

Absurd comics for our absurd times, from the artist behind the wildly popular webcomic Poorly Drawn Lines. In his follow up to the New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines, beloved webcomic artist Reza Farazmand returns with a new collection of comics that hilariously skewers our modern age. Comics for a Strange World takes readers through time, space, and alternate realit...(展开全部)

Colette began writing "Break of Day" in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the Cote d'Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second marriage. The novel's theme--the renunciation of love and the return to an independent existence supported and enriched by the beauty and peace of nature--grows out of Colette's own period of self-assessment in the mid...(展开全部)

It is often considered that too many laws is one of the necessary consequences of a complex society. Many insist that any call for legal simplification smacks of nostalgia and sentimentality. Richard Epstein believes, however, that the conventional view has it backward. The richer texture of American modern society allows for more individual freedom and choice, permitting the o...(展开全部)