The Super Book for Super Heroes is a compendium of ideas, drawing, coloring, and activities that allows you to create your own crusaders for justice who do battle with super villains, unravelling their crazed schemes for taking over the world. You will learn to draw villains such as the Mad Scientist, Bog Creature, and Evil Robot, while also creating superheroes, their sidekick...(展开全部)

In this retelling of one of the great biblical stories, King Solomon commissions Ethan the Scribe to write the official history of King David. In return for the finest cooking in the land and the wages of a minor prophet, Ethan must write a proper record, full of glory and battles, statecraft and honor -- a tribute to David and to Solomon, his heir. But as Ethan explores furthe...(展开全部)

When David Shannon was only five years old, he wrote and illustrated a story in which an unruly little boy breaks all of his mother's rules -- he jumps on the beds; he chews with his mouth open; he plays ball in the house. Any child who is tired of hearing his parents say "No " will readily identify with this boldly illustrated, comical story.

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was the most important European artist in a period of extraordinary upheaval. A participant in the French Revolution, he then witnessed the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. A revolutionary in both art and life, David took painting away from the frivolity of the Rococo towards the dramatic moral force of neoclassicism. Passionate, intense, fie...(展开全部)

Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, it is now reissued in paperback, in response to increased interest in Hume. E. C. Mossner was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. 'Mossner's work is a quite remarkable scholarly achievement; it will be an ind...(展开全部)

Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, it is now reissued in paperback, in response to increased interest in Hume. E. C. Mossner was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. 'Mossner's work is a quite remarkable scholarly achievement; it will be an ind...(展开全部)

In this witty, candid, and revealing account of himself, which is in the tradition of Cellini's Autobiography, Hockney tells of his early years in art school; his studies at the Royal College of Art in London, during which he first came to public attention; his sojourn in California, which inspired his best-known paintings, drawings and prints; and his present phase in Paris, w...(展开全部)

'Fascinating...In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking' Guardian, Book of the Day Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so h...(展开全部)

ひとり暮らしの老人と子どもたちとの奇妙な交流を描いた中編小説。世界各国でも翻訳出版され、映画や舞台にもなった児童文学の名作である。アパートの大家のおばあさんと少女のふれあいをつづった『ポプラの秋』や、「てこじい」という異形の老人が印象的な『西日の町』など、死に直面した老人と子どもというモチーフは、著者が一貫して描きつづけているテーマである。子どもだけではなく、幅広い年齢層に支持されている本書は、その原点となる作品だ。 小学6年の夏、ぼくと山下、河辺の3人は、人が死ぬ瞬間を見てみたいという好奇心から、町外れに住むおじいさんを見張ることにする。一方、観察されていると気づいたおじいさんは、憤慨しつつもやがて少年たちの来訪を楽しみに待つようになる。ぎこちなく触れあいながら、少年達の悩みとおじいさんの寂しさは解けあい、忘れられないひと夏の友情が生まれる。 少年...(展开全部)

ひとり暮らしの老人と子どもたちとの奇妙な交流を描いた中編小説。世界各国でも翻訳出版され、映画や舞台にもなった児童文学の名作である。アパートの大家のおばあさんと少女のふれあいをつづった『ポプラの秋』や、「てこじい」という異形の老人が印象的な『西日の町』など、死に直面した老人と子どもというモチーフは、著者が一貫して描きつづけているテーマである。子どもだけではなく、幅広い年齢層に支持されている本書は、その原点となる作品だ。 小学6年の夏、ぼくと山下、河辺の3人は、人が死ぬ瞬間を見てみたいという好奇心から、町外れに住むおじいさんを見張ることにする。一方、観察されていると気づいたおじいさんは、憤慨しつつもやがて少年たちの来訪を楽しみに待つようになる。ぎこちなく触れあいながら、少年達の悩みとおじいさんの寂しさは解けあい、忘れられないひと夏の友情が生まれる。 少年...(展开全部)