This sumptuous book presents a selection of over one hundred stunning artworks, depicting animals real and mythical, from the prints and photography collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The work opens with a preface from celebrated cultural historian Michel Pastoureau, who considers the symbolic importance of animals to our dreams and imagination. Each image is ...(展开全部)

Dinopedia is an illustrated, pocket-friendly encyclopedia of all things dinosaurian. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from hadrosaur nesting colonies to modern fossil hunters and paleontologists such as Halszka Osmólska and Paul Sereno, this amazing A–Z compendium is brimming with facts about these thrilling, complex, and sophisticated animals. Almost everything we...(展开全部)

Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries—from Acasta gneiss to Zircon—this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that will delight rockhounds and word lovers alike. Geoscientists are magpies for words, and with good reason. The sheer profusion of mineral...(展开全部)

Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries—from Acasta gneiss to Zircon—this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that will delight rockhounds and word lovers alike. Geoscientists are magpies for words, and with good reason. The sheer profusion of mineral...(展开全部)

What happens when a cat becomes the subject of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or takes the starring role in Hamlet or Lawrence of Arabia? Susan Herbert’s feline interpretations of famous images from Western culturehave charmed and amused readers for decades. Cats Galore brings together illustrationsfrom the affectionately envisioned Pre-Raphaelite Cats, Shakespeare Cats, MovieCats, and O...(展开全部)

乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell），本名埃里克·亚瑟·布莱尔（Eric Arthur Blair）。1903年生于印度，当时，他的父亲在当地的殖民地政府供职，用他自己的话说，他家属于“中产阶级的下层，或没有钱财的中产家庭”。 1904年，由母亲带他先回到了英国。他自幼天资聪颖，11岁时就在报纸上发表了一篇诗作《醒来吧，英格兰的小伙子们》。14岁又考入著名的伊顿（Eton）公学，并获取了奖学金。但早在小学时期，他就饱尝了被富家子弟歧视的苦涩，从他后来的回顾中可以看出，凭他那天生就很敏感的心灵，这时已经对不平等有了初步的体验。 1921年，布莱尔从伊顿毕业后考取了公职，到缅甸当了一名帝国警察，在那里，被奴役的殖民地人民的悲惨生活无时不在刺激着他的良知。看着他们在饥寒交迫中、在任人宰割的被奴役中挣扎，他深深感到“帝国主义是一种暴虐”。身为一名帝国警...(展开全部)

ANIMAL FARM was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. Who can forget "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others." By putting wisdom in the mouths of animals, Orwell uses an age-old artifice and proves again how the ...(展开全部)

ANIMAL FARM was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. Who can forget "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others." By putting wisdom in the mouths of animals, Orwell uses an age-old artifice and proves again how the ...(展开全部)

乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell），本名埃里克·亚瑟·布莱尔（Eric Arthur Blair）。1903年生于印度，当时，他的父亲在当地的殖民地政府供职，用他自己的话说，他家属于“中产阶级的下层，或没有钱财的中产家庭”。 1904年，由母亲带他先回到了英国。他自幼天资聪颖，11岁时就在报纸上发表了一篇诗作《醒来吧，英格兰的小伙子们》。14岁又考入著名的伊顿（Eton）公学，并获取了奖学金。但早在小学时期，他就饱尝了被富家子弟歧视的苦涩，从他后来的回顾中可以看出，凭他那天生就很敏感的心灵，这时已经对不平等有了初步的体验。 1921年，布莱尔从伊顿毕业后考取了公职，到缅甸当了一名帝国警察，在那里，被奴役的殖民地人民的悲惨生活无时不在刺激着他的良知。看着他们在饥寒交迫中、在任人宰割的被奴役中挣扎，他深深感到“帝国主义是一种暴虐”。身为一名帝国警...(展开全部)

Having got rid of their human master, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite among them takes control, the other animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared in the old ways. Orwell's chilling story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first publi...(展开全部)