A young stagehand must complete a host of tasks before the moon can take center stage in the theater of night.

"Oh joy of joys!" That’s the last line of The Little Red Hen, and it is also the perfect expression of how the book makes readers feel. The beloved story of the hardworking hen and her lazy neighbors, with its Golden Rule message and its sassy finale, is just as relevant and satisfying as ever. And who better to enliven it than the masterful Jerry Pinkney, who, through his wa...(展开全部)

莱纳·施塔赫（Reiner Stach），1951年出生于萨克森州的罗赫里茨，德国文学研究者、卡夫卡传记作者和时事评论者。 1971年-1979年，施塔赫在法兰克福大学学习哲学、文学和数学。由于在学习期间对卡夫卡产生了极大的兴趣，博士期间专门研究卡夫卡，1985年获得博 士学位，论文题目是《卡夫卡的色情神话——女性的审美建构》 施塔赫曾在法兰克福大学短期任教，后进入S.费舍出版社工作。1991-1996年，他作为自由职业者为包括罗沃特和费舍出版社在内的多家出版社担任编辑，并参与了弗兰茨·卡夫卡作品校勘版的出版工作。1996年，施塔赫开始撰写卡夫卡传记。 施塔赫的《卡夫卡传》写作历时18年，共三卷，德文累计2037页。传记第一卷2002年出版，题为《卡夫卡：关键岁月》（Die Jahre der Entscheidungen），描写卡夫卡1910-19...(展开全部)

In this ground-breaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is Girard's novel reinterpretation of "mimesis." For Girard, people desire objects not for their intrinsic value, but because they...(展开全部)

A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud. We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magical relation to reality and danger,” he wrote. He fought vigorously against an encroaching conventionalism he found anathema to the v...(展开全部)

A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In "Verdi's Shakespeare, " Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: "Macbeth, Othello, " and "Falstaff." An Italian composer who couldn't read a word of English but ad...(展开全部)

Rust is an exciting new programming language combining the power of C with memory safety, fearless concurrency, and productivity boosters - and what better way to learn than by making games. Each chapter in this book presents hands-on, practical projects ranging from "Hello, World" to building a full dungeon crawler game. With this book, you'll learn game development skills app...(展开全部)

ng-book 2. The in-depth, complete, and up-to-date book on Angular 2. Become an Angular 2 expert today. Ready to master Angular 2? What if you could master the entire framework - with solid foundations - in less time without beating your head against a wall? Imagine how quickly you could work if you knew the best practices and the best tools? Stop wasting your time searching and...(展开全部)