This whimsical children's story highlights cooperation and collaboration between a group of animals in their quest to reach the moon. Beautiful watercolor paintings punctuate this story that draws from classic fables and legends, while shedding light on important values, such as generosity, solidarity, and kindness. Capturing children's fascination of the night sky and the moon...(展开全部)

Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and shared with Earth-bound audiences the view of their own planet hanging in the sky instead. Recently, the connection has been discovered to be even closer: a fragment of the Earth's surface was found embedded in a rock b...(展开全部)

Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was the...(展开全部)

Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was the...(展开全部)

Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities. How are schoolchildren judged to be good or bad by their teachers and their peers - and how should a 'bad' studen...(展开全部)

Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities. How are schoolchildren judged to be good or bad by their teachers and their peers - and how should a 'bad' studen...(展开全部)

Recent developments in the organization of work and production have facilitated the decline of wage employment in many regions of the world. However, the idea of the wage continues to dominate the political imaginations of governments, researchers and activists, based on the historical experiences of industrial workers in the global North. This edited collection revitalises deb...(展开全部)

唐娜·罗森塔尔(Donna Rosenthal) 伦敦经济学院国际关系(中东)硕士，以色列电视台新闻制作人，以色列广播电台和《耶路撒冷邮报》的记者，希伯来大学的讲师。在《纽约时报》、《洛杉矶时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《纽约每日新闻》、《新闻周刊》和《大西洋》等报刊上发表许多文章。周游了60多个国家。曾报道了来自伊朗、黎巴嫩、埃及和约旦的消息，是第一个采访埃塞俄比亚边远山村。向以色列广播电台的听众介绍在草棚犹太会堂中村民向移民以色列的埃塞俄比亚犹太人祈祷的记者。三项罗威尔·托马斯奖的获得者(最佳调研报道、最佳冒险游记和外国报道)。

Sun and his wife, the moon, lived on Earth and built a large house so that the water people could visit. But so many poured in that they were forced to move to the sky.

"An African folktale is interpreted with originality and harmony." Booklist, ALA