If you are looking for a job you need every advantage you can get. What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get a Job Around Here? puts a former Human Resources executive turned employee advocate in your corner. Cynthia Shapiro reveals the best-kept job secrets that employers don’t want you to know including: *Secret #8: A computer is deciding your job prospects. *Secret #12: Profe...(展开全部)

Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and Love To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and invol...(展开全部)

Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and Love To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and invol...(展开全部)

By exploring the designs of flags, we can learn all about the histories and aspirations of the countries they represent. Did you know that only the flag of Nepal has more than four sides? Or that the flag of Mozambique features a book, a hoe and an AK47? Robert Fresson’s vintage-inflected illustrations shed fresh light on the wonders of vexillology.

By exploring the designs of flags, we can learn all about the histories and aspirations of the countries they represent. Did you know that only the flag of Nepal has more than four sides? Or that the flag of Mozambique features a book, a hoe and an AK47? Robert Fresson’s vintage-inflected illustrations shed fresh light on the wonders of vexillology.

热尔达·穆雷，1926年生于荷兰，曾先后在阿姆斯特丹美术学院和巴黎艾蒂安娜艺术学院学习绘画。她出版过120多部儿童作品，被翻译成多种语言。代表作品有《四季绘本》《下雨天他们去了哪儿？》《金发姑娘和三只熊》等。

Benjamin and Anna love staying with their cousin Robin in his house near the forest. In the autumn, Robin takes them to see his favourite tree - a giant oak which is 300-years-old. The children build a den under the oak tree's giant branches and watch the squirrels hide acorns in its wide trunk. In the winter they ski through the forest and meet the foresters who chose which tr...(展开全部)

PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge, armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science. In We Have No Idea, they explore the biggest unknowns in the universe, why these things are still mysteries, and what...(展开全部)

PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge, armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science. In We Have No Idea, they explore the biggest unknowns in the universe, why these things are still mysteries, and what...(展开全部)

库尔特·冯内古特 Kurt Vonnegut 20 世纪美国最重要、最有影响力的黑色幽默文学代表作家。代表作有《猫的摇篮》《五号屠场》《冠军早餐》《时震》《囚鸟》等。他的作品抓住了他身处时代的情绪，并激发了整整一代人的想象。 冯内古特是出生在美国的犹太人，1940年考取康奈尔大学，主修化学。1944年珍珠港事件爆发，主张反战的他志愿参军，远赴欧洲战场。1945年遭德军俘虏，被囚禁在德累斯顿战俘营。冯内古特的文学创作，不少灵感正是来自于在战俘营的经历。战后冯内古特在芝加哥大学获得人类学硕士学位，后在哈佛大学任教。他从50年代起开始发表短篇小说，60年代起开始出版长篇。晚年的冯内古特在曼哈顿和纽约长岛的田园里颐养天年。2007 年3月在家中楼梯上不慎摔倒，同年4 月11 日，在曼哈顿逝世。