Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild —is the person thousands turn to for advice. Tiny Beautiful Things brings the best of Dear Sugar in one place and includes never-before-published columns and a new introduction by Steve Almond. Rich with humor, insight, compassion—and absolute honesty—this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.

'At 28 years old, I found myself living at home, with my 73-year-old father. As a child, my father never minced words, and when I screwed up, he had a way of cutting right through the bullshit and pointing out exactly why I was being an idiot. When I moved back in I was still, for the most part, an idiot. But this time, I was smart enough to write down all the things he said to me'. Meet Justin Halpern and his dad. Almost one million people follow Mr Halpern's philosophical musings every day on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his sayings. What emerges is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father and son relationship from a major new comic voice. As Justin says at one point, his dad is 'like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair'; and this is the sort of shit he says...'You know, sometimes it's nice having you around. But now ain't one of those times. Now gimme the remote, we're not watching this bullshit'. 'Happy Birthday, I didn't get you a present...Oh, mom got you one? Well, that's from me then, too - unless it's shitty'. 'Your brother brought his baby over this morning. He told me it could stand. It couldn't stand for shit. Just sat there. Big let down'. 'The worst thing you can be is a liar...Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then, number two is liar. Nazi 1, Liar 2'. 'Why the fuck would I want to live to 100? I'm 73 and shit's starting to get boring. By the way, there's no money left when I go, just fyi'.

A lavish look at the real world--both the secret history and the behind-the-scenes drama--of the spellbinding Emmy Award-winning Masterpiece TV series "Downton Abbey""" "April 1912. The sun is rising behind Downton Abbey, a great and splendid house in a great and splendid park. So secure does it appear that it seems as if the way it represents will last for another thousand years. It won't. " Millions of American viewers were enthralled by the world of "Downton Abbey, " the mesmerizing TV drama of the aristocratic Crawley family--and their servants--on the verge of dramatic change. On the eve of Season 2 of the TV presentation, this gorgeous book--illustrated with sketches and research from the production team, as well as on-set photographs from both seasons--takes us even deeper into that world, with fresh insights into the story and characters as well as the social history.

2001: A Space Odyssey is the classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves....2001: A Space Odyssey inspired what is perhaps the greatest science fiction film ever made -- brilliantly imagined by the late Stanley Kubrick....2001 is finally here....

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《现代主义烹饪：美食的艺术与科学》（Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking），这本书将颠覆大众对厨房的理解，用美轮美奂的图片带领您进入现代摄影技术下的饕餮世界。 高科技厨房烹制出的美食一定是不一般的，请全世界的人们都来品尝貌似不太现实。不过，出版一套配有烹饪摄影的精美食谱，让远在千里之外的人们也能欣赏到这些曼妙的佳肴，这还是可行。于是，梅尔沃德团队的大作《现代主义烹饪：美食的艺术与科学》（Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking）在一番努力后于今年3月出炉了。《现代主义烹饪》全套五册，厚达2438页，包括从近15万幅照片中精选出来的3216张美图与超过1500种美食的菜谱，其中约380种是有实例的，有兴趣的话，你可以依样画葫芦。 作者纳森•梅尔沃德（Nathan Myhrvold）曾任微软副总裁兼首席技术官，他带领一个由顶级厨师、化学家和物理学家组成的团队，历时三年创作出这本令人大开眼界的现代美食主义图书。这本书充分展现烹饪艺术的创造力，并且以图文并茂的方式引导着你一步一步的来实现它们。通过三千多幅精美的原创照片和图表，让烹饪艺术的科学与技术变得鲜活起来，让食物香浓细腻的口感通过令人惊艳的光影展现在您面前。令人惊叹的摄影新技术为您展示出食物的内部状况：您可以看到烹调的全过程，小至肉类纤维的微观变化，大到整个锅的横断面。读过这本书之后，对烹饪和饮食的看法将会打开一个全新的视角。全书一套6本。