1912. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy- Long-Legs. In Daddy-Long-Legs Jerusha Abbot is an orphan with a wicked pen and penetrating insight. La...(展开全部)

The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Yet through much of history, across many cultures, the female leg was kept covered and treated as taboo, until it became an object of sexual obsession. In Victorian times, the word 'leg' was forbidden in polite society, les...(展开全部)

All of the tradition-based canons that governed the world of haute couture since the fifties were subverted by the creative genius of stylists who forged the history of today’s fashion. Designers such as Franco Moschino, Christian Lacroix, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, and Thierry Mugler went beyond the preciousness of fabrics, the studied geometry, and immobility of fi...(展开全部)

《长腿叔叔》是一部书信体小说，全书以81封书信构成，讲述了一个天性乐观、品学兼优的孤女茱蒂的故事。该书一经推出即获得不同凡响的轰动，长期以来畅销不衰。其语言文字的曼妙可爱、简笔画的趣味勾勒、情节的丰富流畅奠定了此书不可替代的文学成就，一度被媒体称为“一本百年难得一见的好书，内容胜过《小妇人》。”该书陆续以舞台剧、戏曲、卡通和电影的形式展现在世人面前。《长腿叔叔》为精校英文原版，在满足原汁原味英文阅读的同时也尽可能减少出版错误；同时提供配套英文朗读免费下载(扫扉页上二维码即可进入下载页面)，在品读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英语阅读水平。

《长腿叔叔》是一部书信体小说，全书以81封书信构成，讲述了一个天性乐观、品学兼优的孤女茱蒂的故事。该书一经推出即获得不同凡响的轰动，长期以来畅销不衰。其语言文字的曼妙可爱、简笔画的趣味勾勒、情节的丰富流畅奠定了此书不可替代的文学成就，一度被媒体称为“一本百年难得一见的好书，内容胜过《小妇人》。”该书陆续以舞台剧、戏曲、卡通和电影的形式展现在世人面前。《长腿叔叔》为精校英文原版，在满足原汁原味英文阅读的同时也尽可能减少出版错误；同时提供配套英文朗读免费下载(扫扉页上二维码即可进入下载页面)，在品读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英语阅读水平。

美国文学评论界的领军人物，被称为当代极为优秀、敏锐的诗歌评论家之一。她于1933年出生于马萨诸塞州，1960年获得哈佛大学文学博士学位，先后在康奈尔大学、波士顿大学等大学任职。1984年开始在哈佛大学英语系任教，兼任美国艺术与科学研究院院士。1990年，被任命为哈佛大学亚瑟•金斯利•波特讲座教授。文德勒专注于诗人和诗歌作品的细读，被誉为具有“铁血战士般的战斗力”，是一位“力量型的诗歌读者”。她多年来笔耕不辍，推出多部关于英美诗人的专著，因为卓越的贡献，获得了美国最高人文成就的国家人文基金等无数荣誉和奖项。

Here Kristin Thompson 'defamiliarizes' the reader with eleven different films. Developing the technique formulated in her Eisenstein's 'Ivan the Terrible', she clearly demonstrates the flexibility of the neoformalist approach. She argues that critics often use cut-and -dried methods and choose films that easily fit those methods. Neoformalism, on the other hand, encourages the ...(展开全部)

戴夫·特朗伯，Collider.com网站的编辑，也是一名自由科学作家。 唐娜·J·纳尔逊，博士，俄克拉何马大学的化学教授，曾任美国化学学会主席，也是《绝命毒师》的科学顾问。 译者简介 单雯，西安外国语大学文学学士、应用语言学及测试学硕士，硕士期间于加州州立大学学习英语写作与应用语言学。中美富布莱特外语助教项目—犹他谷大学访问学者。现任西安建筑科技大学英语教师。 柯遵科，北京大学哲学博士，中国科学院大学人文学院副教授，中科院《自然辩证法通讯》杂志社编辑部副主任。主要从事科学史和科学哲学的研究。著作有《博尔赫斯与科学史》。

Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postd...(展开全部)

Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postd...(展开全部)