Four centuries after her death, Elizabeth I remains a powerful and fascinating figure. Succeeding to the English throne in 1558, she was the third woman monarch in the nation’s history. The role of English monarch—which involved being commander in chief, head of the English Church, and ruler of the royal court, with all its intrigues—was intended for a man ruling among ...(展开全部)

J.E.尼尔(1890-1975)是二十世纪英国著名的正统派史学家。出生于利物浦，家世清贫，师从英国史大师波拉德教授学习，曾在伦敦大学、曼彻斯特大学任教。后来尼尔成为伦敦历史学派的实际领导人，他学风承袭波拉德，极重视史料，且对英国议会史颇有研究。曾7次获各大学和研究单位授予的荣誉学位。

Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power, both feared and admired by her enemies. Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, she employed a network of daring merchants, brazen adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy Council to anchor her throne—and in doing so, planted the seedlings of an empire that ...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second-grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter.Not surprisingly, Ramona takes an active h...(展开全部)

Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter.Not surprisingly, Ramona takes an active h...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second-grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crim...(展开全部)

In sixteenth-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these iconic women. But nothing has been said of their complicated relationsh...(展开全部)

A translator and writer, Maria José Silveira's first novel, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters, won a major Brazilian literary award and the rights were purchased by TV Globo. Since then, she has written six other books--including a couple highly praised YA titles--along with three plays. Eric M. B. Becker is editor of Words without Borders and an award-winning jour...(展开全部)