Throwing down the theoretical gauntlet, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His searing polemic takes aim at the figure of the child, whom he contends is the lynchpin of an entire rhetoric and politics of "reproductive futurity." Edelman argues that in the popular imaginary, the child - innocent, angelic, and imperiled - represents the po...(展开全部)

Throwing down the theoretical gauntlet, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His searing polemic takes aim at the figure of the child, whom he contends is the lynchpin of an entire rhetoric and politics of "reproductive futurity." Edelman argues that in the popular imaginary, the child - innocent, angelic, and imperiled - represents the po...(展开全部)

Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend, Akeyo. But as she walks, carrying the basket on her head, various creatures steal her fruits. A monkey takes the banana, an ostrich the guava, a zebra the orange, an elephant the mango, a giraffe the pineapple, an antelope the avocado and a parrot the passion fruit. Handa walks on, wondering which of the fruit...(展开全部)

艾琳•布朗出生在伯明翰，1995年搬到威尔特郡之前，她在伦敦生活了20多年。她曾从事过学校教师等工作，后成为作家、插画家，第一本书出版于1977年。 艾琳•布朗独立创作了许多书，《汉娜的惊喜》是其中最著名的一本。她还曾与Kit Wright、Tony Bradman 和Floella Benjamin等作家合作进行图书创作。与Tony Bradman合作的《Through My Window》一书，入围1986年聪明豆儿童图书奖（Smarties Book Prize）。《No Problem》入围1994年诺丁汉郡儿童图书奖 （Nottinghamshire Children's Book Award）。《汉娜的惊喜》入围1995年谢菲尔德儿童图书奖（Sheffield Children’s Book Awards）

Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without ...(展开全部)

Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without ...(展开全部)

An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. She opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges an Albanian...(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.