Before his birth, omens foretold that Alexander, son of the warrior-king Philip of Macedonia, was destined for greatness. From boyhood, the prince was trained by the finest scholars and mightiest soldiers to attain extraordinary strength of body and spirit. A descendant of Heracles and Achilles, Alexander aimed to surpass his ancestors' heroism and honor, and his chosen compani...(展开全部)

Packed with breathtaking photographs, this tribute to Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) celebrates the incredible creations of an iconic, imaginative, and inspirational fashion designer whose work turned heads and hearts all over the world. He was a major fashion figure, famous throughout the world, especially the US (where he is a celebrity-favourite with clients including Sarah J...(展开全部)

《A Dream of Red Mansions(共4册)》主要内容：This celebrated Chinese classic novel is a masterpiece of realism written in themiddle of the 18th century. Taking as its background the decline of several relatedbig families and drawing much from his own experiences, the author Can Xueqin(？-c.1763)focused on the tragic love between Jia Baoyou and Lin Daiyu and,inthe meantime, provided a pano...(展开全部)

恩古吉·瓦·提安哥(1938--) 出身于东非肯尼亚卡米里苏一个贫困的农民家庭，在地理上属于英国殖民统治下称为"白色高地"的行政区域。 1962年恩古吉在"非洲英语作家研讨会"上遇见了著名非洲作家索因卡和阿契贝，这次重要的会面使他决心走上"终身非洲作家"的道路，同年，恩古吉创作了剧本《黑色隐士》(T heBlackH erm it)。1964年恩古吉毕业于乌干达马赫雷雷大学。1977年，他因抗议当局对英语的强制性教育而被政府逮捕，拘禁超过一年。获释后与家人过着流亡的生活，直到肯尼亚独裁者阿拉普·莫伊下台才终于得以安全回国。由于政治和健康的原因，最近十几年，恩古吉和阿契贝一样旅居美国，在美国的大学工作。

For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. Later, his writings were crucial to the explosive developments in literary theory in the late seventies, and he was a pioneer in Jewish studies, trauma studies, and studies of the H...(展开全部)

A story about difference, exclusion, and ultimately self-acceptance, Child of Glass explores the interplay between inner and outer and the journey we have to go on to become ourselves. Child of Glass is about Gisele, a fragile, strong, transparent girl who denounces the meanness that can mark life in the world. In sparse, poetic language that all of us, however young or old, ca...(展开全部)

Quintus Curtius was apparently a rhetorician who lived in the first century of the Roman empire and, early in the reign of Claudius (41-54 CE), wrote a history of Alexander the Great in 10 books in clear and picturesque style for Latin readers. The first two books have not survived--our narrative begins with events in 333 BCE--and there is material missing from books V, VI, and...(展开全部)

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains an enigma. Curtius' History offers a great deal of information unobtainable from other sou...(展开全部)

The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great.

Young Walter litters and refuses to sort trash for recycling, until he dreams of an overcrowded and polluted future which terrifies him into taking care of the earth.