Geraldine Lomas’s son went missing in Italy during World War Two, but the eccentric old lady never accepted his death. Now she is dead, leaving the Lomas beer fortune to be divided between an animal rights organization, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund. As disgruntled relatives gather by the graveside, the funeral is interrupted by a middle-aged man in an Italian ...(展开全部)

A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of Goose. A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email ...(展开全部)

A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of Goose. A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email ...(展开全部)

In this beautiful companion to Jay's ABC a child dreams that she travels on a large golden goose to visit a variety of nursery rhymes and fairy tales. On this enchanted journey each place she visits has things to count. The text is simple and the real story is told through paintings done in Jay's familiar crackle-glaze style of simple shapes, jeweled colors, and soft lines.

罗伯特•费希尔（Robert Fisher）：布鲁内尔大学的教育学教授。他曾在英国、非洲和香港等地从事教育工作20余年。此外，他还著有30余本教育学方面的专著，包括《教孩子学会思考》（Teaching Children to Think）、《教孩子学会学习》（Teaching Children to Learn）、《思考的故事》（Stories for Thinking）和《创造性对话》（Creative Dialogue）等。 更多关于孩子教育的信息，请参阅罗伯特•费希尔教授的网页：www.teachingthinking.net

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

罗伯特 S. 费尔德曼 （Robert S. Feldman） 马萨诸塞大学安姆斯特分校心理学教授，同时也是社会和行为科学学院院长。他是学院优秀教师奖获得者，所教授的心理学课程学生人数从15名到近500名。在其职业生涯中，除了马萨诸塞大学以外，费尔德曼还在霍利约克山学院、卫斯理大学、弗吉尼亚联邦大学讲授本科生和研究生课程。 费尔德曼在马萨诸塞大学开创了“少数民族指导项目”，他也是Hewlett Teaching研究员和马萨诸塞大学资深在线教学研究员。同时，他开创了马萨诸塞大学的远程学习课程，并且指导了“大学成功启动计划”。 他是一位活跃的心理学推进者，是行为与脑科学协会联合会的董事会成员，以及行为与脑科学协会联合会基金会会长。 费尔德曼也是美国心理学会（APA）和心理科学协会（APS）会员。他本科以优异的成绩从卫斯理大学毕业（获得了“杰出毕业生”奖）...(展开全部)

MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shak...(展开全部)

A propulsive, relentless page-turner. A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted. A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience. CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read. "There is no crime." Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of it...(展开全部)

A relentless page-turner. A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted. A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience. CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read. "There is no crime." Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamenta...(展开全部)