With gentle visual humor, Jutta Bauer's simple story shows how Grandpa's charmed life may be due to someone special watching over him all along. Grandpa loves to tell stories about his past. There was the time he was almost run over by a bus, the time he made a big dog cower with just one look, and all those scary street corners he passed by unscathed. From climbing the highe...(展开全部)

-A new edition of a Barefoot bestseller with sales to date of over 13,000 copies. -This action-packed book is ideal for teaching different colours and types of transport and for developing map-reading skills. -AR Level: 3.9 -This splendid sing-along book is wonderful for pre-school and Early Years children for listening, dancing, then singing and acting out the story' - Boo...(展开全部)

艾伦•麦克法兰（Alan Macfarlane, 1941— ） 英国历史学家、人类学家，剑桥大学国王学院终身院士，英国皇家历史学会院士，皇家人类学会院士，英国科学院欧洲科学院院士。他1941年出生于印度，在英国受教育，先后在牛津大学、伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）和伦敦大学东方和非洲研究学院（SOAS）学习历史和人类学，获博士学位。麦克法兰在喜马拉雅山区(尼泊尔和阿萨姆)有30年田野经验。他还是著名电视节目制作人，在著名的“第四频道”、“世界起飞的那一天”系列节目担任专家顾问。 麦克法兰关注现代世界诸起源及特性之比较研究，研究对象覆盖西欧、喜马拉雅地区和日本等三大文化区域。著有关于英国、尼泊尔、日本及中国人类学及历史研究专著20余部，被翻译成法文、德文、西班牙文、日文、韩文、中文等多种文字在数十个国家出版。包括《英国个人主义的起源》《玻璃的世界》《给莉...(展开全部)

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amand...(展开全部)

With "House of Glass", the fourth volume in the Buru Quartet, Indonesian writer and dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer concludes his epic of Indonesian nationhood. Here, the story of Minke, the talented, bold, and imaginative native leader, told in the preceding books--"This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations", and "Footsteps"--takes a dramatic new form.

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective ficti...(展开全部)

A story about difference, exclusion, and ultimately self-acceptance, Child of Glass explores the interplay between inner and outer and the journey we have to go on to become ourselves. Child of Glass is about Gisele, a fragile, strong, transparent girl who denounces the meanness that can mark life in the world. In sparse, poetic language that all of us, however young or old, ca...(展开全部)

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amand...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification. Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable...(展开全部)

What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism’s authority to answer this question, English professors themselves are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Further Reading brings together thirty commissioned essays drawing on approaches as different as formalism, historicism, neuro...(展开全部)