With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride.

This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. Arthur’s only chan...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·奈 “软实力之父”，美国知名政治学家，亚太事务专家，新自由主义学派代表人物之一。 先后受教于普林斯顿大学、牛津大学、哈佛大学，1964年获哈佛大学政治学博士学位，1977年步入政坛，曾出任卡特政府助理国务卿、克林顿政府全国情报委员会主席和美国助理国防部长，后来重回哈佛大学，曾任肯尼迪政府学院院长，现为哈佛大学杰出贡献教授。 ·提出复合相互依赖理论，直接促进了国际关系研究的自由国际主义（理想主义）的复兴，催生了新自由主义 ·最早提出并阐述了“软实力”概念，被称为“软实力之父” ·对美国外交政策影响最大的学者之一

约瑟夫·奈 “软实力之父”，美国知名政治学家，亚太事务专家，新自由主义学派代表人物之一。 先后受教于普林斯顿大学、牛津大学、哈佛大学，1964年获哈佛大学政治学博士学位，1977年步入政坛，曾出任卡特政府助理国务卿、克林顿政府全国情报委员会主席和美国助理国防部长，后来重回哈佛大学，曾任肯尼迪政府学院院长，现为哈佛大学杰出贡献教授。 ·提出复合相互依赖理论，直接促进了国际关系研究的自由国际主义（理想主义）的复兴，催生了新自由主义 ·最早提出并阐述了“软实力”概念，被称为“软实力之父” ·对美国外交政策影响最大的学者之一

The new novel that Sidney Sheldon's millions of fans all over the world have been waiting for. And, like his sixteen previous books, it is destined for a top place on bestseller lists everywhere. The Sky is Falling contains all the elements which make Sidney Sheldon's works impossible to put down: power, money, greed, lust, corruption! and a strong female central character. In...(展开全部)

When Grandma says she's seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn't believe her. She's too old to play Grandma's silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So even when Nora sees butterflies with wings as big as her arm, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing, she knows there's absolutely, DEFINITELY no way there...(展开全部)

An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality. Most Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules. Work hours declined for a century through hard-fought labor-movement victories, but they’ve increased significantly since the seventies. Worked Over traces the varied reasons why our live...(展开全部)

“A genuinely innovative contribution to philosophical accounts of subjectivity and temporality. Romano develops what he calls an ‘evential hermeneutics’ that takes as its starting point the life-changing events that upend our world. He studies the structure of these events in terms of the genuine change and novelty that they open up, distinguishing them from mere occurrences, w...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth cent...(展开全部)

Manga meets Pop meets Zen in Over the Rainbow, the first combined presentation of Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito--close friends and stars of the Japanese contemporary art scene. Nara, born in 1959, is regarded as one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists, and has attained a cult status in his homeland that is hardly conceivable for European artists to reach. His signature...(展开全部)