“An adventure, a mystery, and a love song to the natural world. . . . Run out and read it. Right now.”—Newbery Medalist Karen Cushman In the town of Placid, Wisconsin, in 1871, Georgie Burkhardt is known for two things: her uncanny aim with a rifle and her habit of speaking her mind plainly. But when Georgie blurts out something she shouldn't, her older sister Agatha flees,...(展开全部)

In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script invented in the Near East in the late fourth millennium B.C.--the world's oldest known system of writing...(展开全部)

I'm not sure what it is about this kid Duncan, but his crayons sure are a colorful bunch of characters! Having soothed the hurt feelings of one group who threatened to quit, Duncan now faces a whole new group of crayons asking to be rescued. From Maroon Crayon, who was lost beneath the sofa cushions and then broken in two after Dad sat on him; to poor Turquoise, whose head is n...(展开全部)

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)

The catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq as told by the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a probing and insightful work of reportage. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would ...(展开全部)

"The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today's best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it." It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills--and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasi...(展开全部)

Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them. ...(展开全部)

（美）卡森·埃利斯（Carson Ellis） 美国插画家。1975年10月5日出生于加拿大温哥华，毕业于蒙大拿大学，现居住于美国俄勒冈州波特兰市。卡森·埃利斯曾为《荒野丛林》《作曲家已死》等多部作品绘制插图，并于2010年获得插画家协会银奖。她善于将现代、民族与想象等各种元素结合在一起，作品细节丰富、极具意味，有着很高的辨识度。

简介：“来吧凯特，来到我的怀里吧。”“你要选择什么呢，是拯救家人，还是自己逃跑？” 对于一个13岁的小女孩，独自一个人面临“诅咒”，是可怕的，而这次意外除了她，所有人都不知道，无数次轮回，无数次选择，不同的结局，她心中这个秘密，究竟如何选择？

'Home' is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across the world, connected to a nation or attached to a house; the spaces and imaginari...(展开全部)