When a young bear finds a scrap of an old letter, he is so curious about the mysterious marks that he searches out their source--a cabin in the woods. There he meets a young woman and is mesmerized by the sound of her voice. Though he cannot understand her words, he returns every day to hear the woman's stories of sailors, goddesses, and far-off lands. Dennis Haseley's magical...(展开全部)

莎伦·考夫曼（Sharon R. Kaufman），加州大学旧金山分校健康与老年研究所、社会与行为科学系教授，人类学、历史和社会医学系主任。考夫曼的研究兴趣包括一些相互关联的主题，如老年认同、主体性与晚年生活的意义，社会变迁与医学文化的转型，美国医院文化与晚期病人的临终，生物科技与伦理、医疗实践的关系，老年医疗保险政策与卫生保健体系改革，以及生命本身的人类学。由此可见，她的研究涉及医学人类学和老年人类学的许多核心议题。

<b>A schoolteacher fights to prove that her father’s suicide was actually murder</b><br /><br /> Ann hasn’t seen her mother in 3 years, and she doesn’t miss her at all. But without warning, Elaine shows up on her daughter’s doorstep, dead broke and hungry for scotch. Ann’s father has just come into an inheritance, and Elaine wants every penny. After a few drinks, she stumbles o...(展开全部)

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.

After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a clo...(展开全部)

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)

博尔特·霍尔多布勒（Bert Hölldobler），德国维尔茨堡大学行为生理学和社会生物学教授，亚历山大·冯·洪堡基金会奖和戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨奖的获得者。 爱德华·威尔逊（Edward O. Wilson），美国生物学家、博物学家，“社会生物学”奠基人，是最早宣传“生物多样性”概念的人之一。1949年毕业于亚拉巴马大学，1955年获哈佛大学生物学博士学位，同年开始在哈佛大学执教。于1969年当选为美国国家科 学院院士。长期致力于蚂蚁和其他群居性昆虫研究。著有《昆虫的社会》《论人的天性》《大自然的猎人》《社会生物学：新的综合》等，凭《论人的天性》和《蚂蚁》两度获得普利策奖。 译者毛盛贤，遗传学教授。1962年毕业于北京师范大学生物系生物物理专业，留校从事遗传学教学和科研工作。1981—1983年，作为高级访问学者到英国伯明翰大学遗传学系专...(展开全部)