An old woman is dying of cancer in Cape Town. A classics professor, Mrs Curren has always been opposed to the brutality of apartheid, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs Curren rec...(展开全部)

In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face-to-face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby b...(展开全部)

Packed with exclusive content, this fully illustrated tome treats fans to a comprehensive, unique and privileged behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind the state-of-the-art technology used in the blockbuster motion picture. Follow the film's complete artistic evolution, from initial concept through armor design and on to the final rendering seen on screen. Here i...(展开全部)

Tony Stark has returned from space with a vision of a better world. But who is his secret ally? Tony mysteriously shrugs his crime-fighting duties onto P.E.P.P.E.R. and focuses his energies on the grand unveiling of Troy, Tony's Iron Metropolitan city of tomorrow! What could go wrong? Well, Pepper could meet P.E.P.P.E.R., or discover Tony's family secret - or both! And if the M...(展开全部)

Tony Stark has returned from space with a vision of a better world. But who is his secret ally, what is his secret resource - and who would try to stop him? It's the grand unveiling of the core of Troy, Tony's Iron Metropolitan city of tomorrow! What could go wrong? Well, Pepper could meet P.E.P.P.E.R., or discover Tony's family secret...or both! And if the Mandarin is truly de...(展开全部)

Tony Stark has returned from space with a vision of a better world. But who is his secret ally, what is his secret resource - and who would try to stop him? It's the grand unveiling of the core of Troy, Tony's Iron Metropolitan city of tomorrow! What could go wrong? Well, Pepper could meet P.E.P.P.E.R., or discover Tony's family secret...or both! And if the Mandarin is truly de...(展开全部)

Tony Stark has returned from space with a vision of a better world. But who is his secret ally? Tony mysteriously shrugs his crime-fighting duties onto P.E.P.P.E.R. and focuses his energies on the grand unveiling of Troy, Tony's Iron Metropolitan city of tomorrow! What could go wrong? Well, Pepper could meet P.E.P.P.E.R., or discover Tony's family secret - or both! And if the M...(展开全部)

In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills. By the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered the whole of Italy and was poised to establish an empire. But how did it accomplish this historic transformation? This book explores the development of ...(展开全部)

Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China s foremost martial arts teacher.

特德•休斯（1930—1998），英国著名作家，20世纪最重要的诗人之一。他出生于英国一个偏远而荒凉的小镇米索尔姆洛伊德，那里质朴、原始的高沼地风景，在他心中留下了抹不去的印迹。他一生出版过九十多部作品，荣获无数国际荣誉，包括哈珀出版奖、毛姆奖等。1977年，他被授予帝国荣誉勋章。1984年，他被评为桂冠诗人。1998年，他被授予功绩勋章。在创作后期，他只为孩子执笔创作。其中，《铁巨人》《铁巨人和他的朋友》是两部经典的寓言小说，被评为“最伟大的现代童话故事之一”。《很久很久以前》是一部动物在世界之初寻求自我的童话作品集。休斯这些为自己孩子创作的儿童文学作品，以悠远的意境和敏锐的洞察力，走进了孩子的内心世界，为孩子营造了一座充满天马行空想象力的城堡。