Kevin Brown is the owner of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps (http://www.geographicus.com), a generalist dealer in rare maps from all periods and at all value points. Kevin attended Bennington College, in Vermont, where he majored in “Pilgrimage.” Bennington fosters a “learn by doing” approach to academics, and Kevin has translated this philosophy to the map trade. He approaches ...(展开全部)

These renowned authors come together to support a national movement to Take Back Your Time, and they propose personal corporate, and legislative solutions.

Darkness is falling everywhere and little ones are getting sleepy, feeling cozy, and being tucked in. It's time for a wide yawn, a big hug, and a snuggle under the covers--sleep tight "Working beautifully with the soothingly repetitive text, each painting conveys a warm feeling of safety and affection."--"School Library Journal"

A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor -- 400 million years old -- a four-limbed dinofish! In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fisherman's trawl that she knew was special. With limb-like protuberances culminating in fins the strange fish was unlike anyth...(展开全部)

Father is missing! His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away--but where?--and how? Meg and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, set out with their friend Calvin on an exciting adventure through time and space to search for him. With the help of the mysterious Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the youngsters learn to expect the unexpected as t...(展开全部)

Father is missing! His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away--but where?--and how? Meg and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, set out with their friend Calvin on an exciting adventure through time and space to search for him. With the help of the mysterious Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the youngsters learn to expect the unexpected as t...(展开全部)

Play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper classes and the established political institutions with disdain. Although the form of the play was not...(展开全部)

Look Back in Anger has its unarguable importance as the beginning of a revolution in the British theatre, and as the central and most immediately influential expression of the mood of its time, the mood of the "angry young man". ----John Russel Taylor When the play was first produced by the English Stage Company London's Royal Court Theatre, Kenneth Tynan wrote in the Observer:...(展开全部)

'This book tackles some of the most important educational questions of the day...It is rare to find a book on education which is theoretically sophisticated and practically relevant: this book is.' - "From the Foreword by Hugh Lauder". What is it in the twenty-first century that we want young people, and adults returning to study, to know? What is it about the kind of knowledge...(展开全部)