Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she b...(展开全部)

菲利浦・泰爾Philipp Ther 生於一九六七年，維也納大學的東歐史研究所教授。曾任哈佛大學歐洲研究中心的約翰・甘迺迪紀念研究員、佛羅倫斯的歐洲大學學院教授。其著作《現代歐洲的民族清洗》（Ethnische Säuberungen im modernen Europa）一書，曾在二〇一二年榮獲德國書業協會表揚，更被翻譯成多種語言。《歐洲1989》（Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent）則在二〇一五年獲頒萊比錫書展獎非小說類大獎、德國艾伯特基金會年度政治類選書。 譯者簡介 王榮輝 曾就讀東吳大學政治系、政治大學歷史系與法律系；其後前往德國哥廷根大學（Universität Gottingen）攻讀碩士，主修哲學、西洋中古史與西洋近現代史。通曉英、德、法、日與拉丁文等外文。二○○九年起，擔任台北歌德學院特約...(展开全部)

The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and social changes that transformed Europe--both east and west--o...(展开全部)

January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, George Picquart, witnessed a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying “Death to the Jews!” The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army’s youngest colonel and put in command of “the Statistical Section” – t...(展开全部)

‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about the girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.’ In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, when she worked as...(展开全部)