Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathema

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathema

Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness. "The Maine Woods" is classic Thoreau: a personal story of ex...(展开全部)

"As we follow the story of Sal and his lost tooth we feel as refreshed as though we had spent a day with his family on their island."--Saturday Review. Caldecott Honor Book. Full-color illustrations.

"As we follow the story of Sal and her lost tooth we feel as refreshed as though we had spent a day with her family on their island".--Saturday Review. Caldecott Honor Book. Full-color illustrations.

"As we follow the story of Sal and his lost tooth we feel as refreshed as though we had spent a day with his family on their island."--Saturday Review. Caldecott Honor Book. Full-color illustrations.

"As we follow the story of Sal and her lost tooth we feel as refreshed as though we had spent a day with her family on their island".--Saturday Review. Caldecott Honor Book. Full-color illustrations.

From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience. Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (recently released in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of our most provocative authorities on all things ci...(展开全部)

杰夫里•迪弗 一九五〇年出生于芝加哥，十一岁时写出了他的第一本小说，从此笔耕不辍。迪弗毕业于密苏里大学新闻系，后进入福德汉姆法学院研修法律。在法律界实践了一段时间后，他在华尔街一家大律师事务所开始了律师生涯。他兴趣广泛，曾自己写歌唱歌，进行巡演，也曾当过杂志社记者。与此同时， 他开始发展自己真正的兴趣：写悬疑小说。一九九〇年起，迪弗成为一名全职作家。 迄今为止，迪弗共获得六次 MWA（美国推理小说作家协会）的爱伦•坡奖提名、一次尼禄•沃尔夫奖、一次安东尼奖、三次埃勒里•奎因最佳短篇小说读者奖。迪弗的小说被翻译成三十五种 语言，多次登上世界各地的畅销书排行榜。包括名作《人骨拼图》在内，他有三部作品被搬上银幕，同时他也为享誉世界的詹姆斯•邦德系列创作了最新官方小说 《自由裁决》。 迪弗的作品素以悬念重重、不断反转的情节著称，常常在小说的结尾推翻，或者多次...(展开全部)

Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film--and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square. Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She...(展开全部)