著绘者：派翠西亚·波拉蔻（Patricia Polacco） 美国著名图画书作家。出生于美国密歇根州，但她有多种族血统，外祖父母是俄籍犹太人，祖父母是爱尔兰人，她的个人经历极具传奇色彩。她从小就极具艺术天分，但因为阅读障碍症，求学经历很不顺利，幸而在老师的帮助下，逐渐克服阅读障碍，后来进入俄亥俄州立大学，先后获得美术硕士和美术史博士学位。 41岁开始创作图画书，至今已出版过几十本，并屡获大奖。她的作品多取材于自己的真实经历和日常生活，能够直抵人心，让读者有切身感触；同时，她受到犹太文化、爱尔兰文化、美国文化等多种文化的影响，在作品中也常有体现。她的作品总是将“图”和“文”编织得天衣无缝，深受世界各地读者喜爱。代表作品有《蜜蜂树》《雷公糕》《谢谢您，福柯老师》等。 译者：周英 儿童文学博士，童书编辑，业余偶尔尝试儿童文学创作。已在《中国教育报》《中国...(展开全部)

著绘者：派翠西亚·波拉蔻（Patricia Polacco） 美国著名图画书作家。出生于美国密歇根州，但她有多种族血统，外祖父母是俄籍犹太人，祖父母是爱尔兰人，她的个人经历极具传奇色彩。她从小就极具艺术天分，但因为阅读障碍症，求学经历很不顺利，幸而在老师的帮助下，逐渐克服阅读障碍，后来进入俄亥俄州立大学，先后获得美术硕士和美术史博士学位。 41岁开始创作图画书，至今已出版过几十本，并屡获大奖。她的作品多取材于自己的真实经历和日常生活，能够直抵人心，让读者有切身感触；同时，她受到犹太文化、爱尔兰文化、美国文化等多种文化的影响，在作品中也常有体现。她的作品总是将“图”和“文”编织得天衣无缝，深受世界各地读者喜爱。代表作品有《蜜蜂树》《雷公糕》《谢谢您，福柯老师》等。 译者：周英 儿童文学博士，童书编辑，业余偶尔尝试儿童文学创作。已在《中国教育报》《中国...(展开全部)

When Patricia's Great-Gramma Anna came to America as a child, the only things she brought along from Russia were her dress and the babushka she liked to throw up into the air when she was dancing. Soon enough, though, Anna outgrew the dress and her mother decided to incorporate it and the babushka into a quilt. "It will be like having a family in backhome Russia dance around us...(展开全部)

Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our childhoods have been captured and preserved online, never to go away. But what happens when we can’t leave our most embarrassing moments behind? Until recently, the awkward moments of growing up could be forgotten. But today we may be on the verge of losing the ability to leave our pasts behind. In The End of Forgetting, Kate Eichhorn explo...(展开全部)

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of writings that chronicle the author's state of mind and personal perspective on events, fellow writers and public figures of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to articles and essays such as the celebrated title piece, this volume includes a...(展开全部)

Impelled by the desire to recapitulate and amplify those 'subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life', Somerset Maugham wrote The Summing Up when he was sixty-four. Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, The Summing Up is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. It...(展开全部)

By 1938, Maugham had become a legend as a playwright, novelist and magician of the short story. He then wrote The Summing Up to give some account of how he learned his craft and why he became such an acute observer of human beings.

Every Sunday Mrs Badger walks up the mountain near her house. She knows the name of every animal and every plant on the way and helps everyone in need. One particular Sunday she meets a little cat, Leo, who would like to join her on her journey. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship and many more walks up the mountain. What will happen when Mrs Badger is too old to jo...(展开全部)

By 1938, Maugham had become a legend as a playwright, novelist and magician of the short story. He then wrote The Summing Up to give some account of how he learned his craft and why he became such an acute observer of human beings.

A web application involves many specialists, but it takes people in web ops to ensure that everything works together throughout an application's lifetime. It's the expertise you need when your start-up gets an unexpected spike in web traffic, or when a new feature causes your mature application to fail. In this collection of essays and interviews, web veterans such as Theo Schl...(展开全部)