The 3rd edition of this classic textbook continues to serve as a one-stop resource for authoritative information on all aspects of small animal surgery. Coverage includes basic procedures such as spays, castrations, and declaws, as well as more advanced surgeries that might be referred to specialists such as craniotomy, ventral slots, and lung lobectomy. Discussions of general ...(展开全部)

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, bo...(展开全部)

"Animal Eyes" aims to provide a comprehensive account of all known types of eye. It takes the diversity of optical mechanisms as a framework, but many other aspects of the structure and function of eyes are examined. Visual ecology, for example, the way that eyes are specifically adapted to the lifestyles of the animals that bear them, is another important theme. The 'design ph...(展开全部)

Animal Babies collects over 120 incredible, heart-warming images of creatures in the wild. It captures precious moments in the young lives of a host of animals, from wolf pups squabbling in the pack and elephant calves wobbling to their feet to baby turtles flipping their way to the sea and baby otters learning to swim. Fall in love with these extraordinary animals as they find...(展开全部)

David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous —hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring and truly original” by Science —has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading throu...(展开全部)

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

"When I was young, I was certain, as most young people are, that I would die young. I was filled with such youthfulness, such promise, the end could only be imagined as violent and beautiful. No, I certainly wasn't destined for gradual decay. Now I'm a hundred years old and I'm still alive. Maybe I'm only ninety, I don't know for sure." In an autumnal love story of erotic obses...(展开全部)

莫妮卡·马龙（Monika Maron），德国著名作家，1941年生于柏林。代表作有长篇小说《飞灰》《忧伤动物》《寂静巷六号》《女叛徒》等，作品被译成十数种语言出版，曾获克莱斯特奖、荷尔德林奖、德意志国家奖、莱辛奖等文学、时事大奖。 ★ 刘宏（Holly Liu），毕业于北京大学西语系德语语言文学专业，分获学士、硕士学位。20世纪90年代赴美留学，获得德州理工大学（Texas Tech University）德语文学硕士学位和范德堡大学（Vanderbilt University）德语文学博士学位。致力于研究二战后东西德文学和德国统一后原东德作家的写作技巧和文学发展方向。现执教于美国的阿尔玛学院（Alma College）, 为世界语言文化系德国文学文化研究正教授, 并于2011年起担任北京大学德国研究中心的特聘研究员。