Whether refried, baked, falafelled, or complementing a nice Chianti, the humble bean has long been a part of gourmet and everyday food culture around the globe. As Ken Albala shows, though, over its history the bean has enjoyed more controversy than its current ubiquity lets on. From the bean's status as seat of the soul (at least, that's what Pythagoras thought) to seed of sin...(展开全部)

A little baby sleeps through everything from a beeping car and a barking dog to a ringing telephone, but when a tiny buzzing fly disturbs his slumber, the baby cannot be lulled back to sleep by anything but a kiss by his big sister.

"Whatever the task, whether keeping afour-year-old quiet in public, housebreaking a puppy,coaching a team, or memorizing a poem, it will gofast, and better, and be more fun, if you know howto use reinforcement."--KarenPryor. Now Karen Pryor clearly explains theunderlying principles of behavioral training and throughnumerous fascinating examples reveals how this artcan be appli...(展开全部)

作者簡介 凱倫．布萊爾（Karen Pryor） 作家、動物行為學家、也是揚名國際的科學家，專精行為心理學和海洋哺乳動物生物學。她創立了美國夏威夷的「海洋生物世界」（Sea Life Park），是引領海豚訓練的先驅，她在該處結識了知名心理學家史金納（B. F. Skinner）博士及動物行為學家勞倫茲（Konrad Lorenz），並與二人共事。 布萊爾女士曾任美國政府指派的「海洋哺乳動物委員會」（Marine Mammal Commission）委員，並擔任過美國太空總署及國家動物園等多個組織機構的顧問，提供有關人類、動物之行為和學習的諮詢，曾任「劍橋行為科學研究中心」（the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Sciences）的理事之一。 她的第一本著作《為寶貝哺乳》（Nursing Your Baby）已銷售兩...(展开全部)

A little baby sleeps through everything from a beeping car and a barking dog to a ringing telephone, but when a tiny buzzing fly disturbs his slumber, the baby cannot be lulled back to sleep by anything but a kiss by his big sister.

When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before. As he pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, children will love being able to answer back and decide his fate. In his hilarious picture book debut, popular cartoonist Mo Willems perfectly captures a preschooler...(展开全部)

When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before. As he pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, children will love being able to answer back and decide his fate. In his hilarious picture book debut, popular cartoonist Mo Willems perfectly captures a preschooler...(展开全部)

The Pigeon REALLY wants to drive the bus. Will you let him? Finally, a really big book you can say "no" to!

When the driver leaves the bus temporarily, he gives the reader just one instruction: "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" But, boy, that pigeon tries every trick in the book to get in that driving seat: he whines, wheedles, fibs and flatters. Will you let him drive? Told entirely in speech bubbles, this is a brilliantly original book.