Welcome to Night Vale
Joseph Fink
评分 7.5分
From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggl
The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf
评分 8.5分
The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success th
Poetry, Language, Thought
Martin Heidegger
评分 9.4分
Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opened up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In H
Amadeus
Peter Shaffer
评分 9.1分
Amadeus is the most talked about play in many years. In England it won both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award for the best play of the year.aAmadeus is the story of Sal
This is Guadalcanal
William S. Butler
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Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
评分 8.8分
The bestselling introduction to "flow"--a groundbreaking psychological theory that shows readers how to improve the quality of life. "The way to happiness lies not in mindless hedonism, but in mind
A Cook's Tour
Anthony Bourdain
评分 8.2分
The only thing "gonzo gastronome" and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling. Inspired by the question, "What would be the perfect meal?," To
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
评分 9.0分
"I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who’s interested in the history and future of our species" (Bill Gates) "Interesting and provocative… It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been o
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition
Dan Ariely
Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a
How to Be Idle
Tom Hodgkinson
From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed
As Nature Made Him
John Colapinto
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine
Brokeback Mountain
Proulx, Annie (安妮.普露
评分 8.7分
本書為短篇小說集，收錄包括〈Brokeback Mountain斷背山〉等多篇作品。 《紐約時報》書評：「對《Close Range》書中角色而言，壯觀富麗又震懾人心的地理是他們的守護神。書中人物的生活是奮力向前卻徒勞無功的上坡路，下坡路卻是狂亂失控的旅程。普露以散文體書寫人物，筆法狂暴﹑震撼﹑嫻熟，一筆將人物帶至邊緣，再作勢讓人物超越極限。」
Krakatoa
Simon Winchester
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of
The Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz
评分 7.9分
In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock , a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new P.
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels
Biomimicry
Janine M. Benyus
评分 8.4分
Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature's best ideas -- spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and brain cells -- and adapts them for human use. Science writer and lecturer
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix
评分 7.1分
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-
Kitchen Confidential
When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don t Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker， he spared no one s appetite， revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential， he ex
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
评分 8.1分
此書是作者九○年代的不列顛獨行回顧。 記錄了作者對於居住在不列顛島上長達二?年的生活點滴。以其風趣幽默的筆調，讓讀者瞭解當地的風俗民情以及其經歷的各種奇特有趣的生活。文中對於人、事、物荒謬面的細膩觀察與生動的刻畫，引得書迷捧腹大笑不已。 比尔・布赖森：一九五一年生于美国衣阿华州，毕业于美国德雷克大学。他曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》，在英国居住长达二十年之久，同时
Writing To Learn
William Zinsser
This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.
Neither Here Nor There
评分 8.6分
Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he unde
Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston
Up the Down Staircase
Bel Kaufman
Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and s
