Product Description This novel opens with a scene of war which is destined to become a classic: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance....(展开全部)

This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the so...(展开全部)

12 year old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. Even though it's claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy and it sure ain't the polar bear's lunch. Dealing with the zoo's top brass proves to be nothing but a waste o...(展开全部)

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer -- an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New Y...(展开全部)

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer -- an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New Y...(展开全部)

Award-winning and world-renowned design firm IDEO uses a hallmarked process of first-hand observation and experimentation to inform and inspire its innovative work. Now, at long last, IDEO reveals these working methods for idea and product development. Each of the 16 experiments in this book posses an unexpected question: What if your watch could tell time slowly or quickly? Ea...(展开全部)

西蒙娜•薇依(Simone Weil,1909-1943)，20世纪法国哲学家、社会活动家、神秘主义思想大师。薇依一生写了一本又一本的笔记，内容涉及哲学、宗教、历史、政治……西蒙娜拥有特立独行，自甘苦行、永远站在穷苦人民一边的“圣女”人格和感人生平，她的思想充满智慧。 吴雅凌，上海社科院宗教研究所副研究员，法国巴黎第三大学比较文学博士，目前从事比较古典学研究，著译有《神谱笺释》（2010年）、《劳作与时日笺释》（2014年）、《柏拉图对话中的神》（2012年）、《黑暗中的女人：作为古典肃剧英雄的女人类型》（2016年）等。

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011! A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear ...(展开全部)

Mo Willems continues hisbest-selling Elephant and Piggie first reader series. The books feature two lovable and funny characters: an optimistic (andsometimes reckless) pig and a cautious, pessimistic elephant. Children who sat on their parents’ laps to have Pigeon read to them will eagerly take the plunge with these books to start reading on their own.Each book has been vetted...(展开全部)

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In I Will Surprise My Friend!, Gerald and Piggie want to play a game and surprise each other-but the biggest surprise is the one they least expect.