简介：唉嘿(1)

简介：唉嘿(1)

Meg Medina is the author of the YA novels Burn Baby Burn; Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, winner of the Pura Belpré Author Award; and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind. She also wrote the picture books Mango, Abuela, and Me, a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor Book, and Tía Isa Wants a Car, recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. She lives in Richmond, Virgi...(展开全部)

Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina. Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older bro...(展开全部)

安贝托·艾柯，让-克洛德·卡里埃尔，一个被誉为二十世纪后半期最耀眼的意大利学者和作家，享誉世界的哲学家、符号学家、历史学家和小说家，一个是法国电影泰斗、法国国家电影学院创始人；一个是少有的将精深学术与玄奥小说变成畅销书、作品被翻译成三十五种文字之多的作家，一个是《布拉格之恋》、《铁皮鼓》等八十多部经典电影剧本的创作者，西班牙电影大师布努埃尔最青睐的编剧。　　两位对话者除了同样嗜书如命之外，同是古书珍本爱好者，对书籍代表的人类文明进程有着深刻的理解，对书籍在当下的变局和处境也有洞烛幽徽的观察。　　纸本书来日来临？网络时代，书幸耶？不幸耶？书是否忠实反映人类天才的创造？记忆如何运行，图书馆怎样分类？书凭什么可以经世流传？书太多了怎么办？如何谈论没读过的书……谈古溯今，纵横捭阖，艾柯、卡里埃尔坐拥书城，带你穿越从纸莎手稿到电子书籍的历史，漫谈他们的藏书故事...(展开全部)

In The Metaphysics of the Material World, Tad M. Schmaltz traces a particular development of the metaphysics of the material world in early modern thought. The route Schmaltz follows derives from a critique of Spinoza in the work of Pierre Bayle. Bayle charged in particular that Spinoza's monistic conception of the material world founders on the account of extension and its "mo...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)