The children of the forest live deep in the roots of an old pine tree. They collect wild mushrooms and blueberries and shelter under toadstools when it rains. They play with the squirrels and frogs, and when autumn comes, they collect and prepare food to see them through the long winter, until the warm spring breeze starts to blow.

Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 in Venice. Her family moved to Paris three years later when her father was appointed court astrologer to King Charles V. Close ties to the royal court and her father's encouragement enabled Christine to obtain a good education, unusual for women of her time. At the age of fifteen, she married a court notary, who also fostered her learning and...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A new translation of one of medieval Europe's most remarkable feminist texts. In The Book of the City of Ladies France's first professional woman of letters confronted head-on the misogyny of fourteenth-century Europe. Here, with the help of Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan constructs an allegorical city in which to defend womankind, using exampl...(展开全部)

[意] 里卡尔多·博兹 著 里卡尔多 · 博兹是一名记者,1966年出生于米兰, 从1990年开始就在意大利《晚邮报》工作。 他说:“当我们学会如何聆听树木时, 我们思想的简洁、敏捷和孩子般的喧嚣达到无比的快乐。” 于是他写下了《森林》的故事。 [西] 比奥莱塔·洛佩斯 绘 比奥莱塔·洛佩斯是一位现居德国柏林的西班牙插画师, 曾被杂志El Culture誉为当代西班牙十大插画师之一。 她为《走过那片森林》创作了独特的浮雕、模切艺术。 [意] 瓦莱里奥·维达利 绘 瓦莱里奥·维达利是一位意大利插画家, 目前生活在葡萄牙。插画作品曾获得国际插图双年展、 美国插画家协会和博洛尼亚童书展多项插画大奖。已出版作品有《你想过怎样的一生？》。

克劳瑞·A．尼沃拉 出色的图画书女画家。自编自绘了作品《伊丽莎白》和《森林》，曾和作家阿米·海斯特合作推出了《娜娜的星期五晚上》一书。现在跟家人住在美国马萨诸塞州。

The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, ...(展开全部)

The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, ...(展开全部)

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and ...(展开全部)

[英] 玛格丽特·米（Margaret Mee）著 英国植物艺术家、探险家，专注于亚马孙森林植物研究。她的作品深受世界各地的植物学家和艺术评论家的赞誉。 1909年5月22日，玛格丽特出生在英国中产之家，早期受过良好的文化、艺术和戏剧教育，战争时期帮助好友躲避纳粹， 后进入飞机制造工厂绘制图纸为国效力。1956年，47岁的她进入了巴西雨林，开始了长达32年的森林探险，为植物科学和环保事业奉献了自己的后半生。她曾先后15次深入亚马孙流域的勘探，记录和绘制那里的珍奇植物。由她发现和命名的植物，便有9种之多。1988年11月30日晚，她在莱斯特的交通意外中去世。在其后举办的追思会中，英国菲利普亲王及巴西政要均到场致哀。 她曾获得： 🏆 1971 · 古根海姆奖 🎖 1976 · 大英帝国员佐勋章 🎖 1979 · 巴西共和国南十字星勋章 🏅 1986 · ...(展开全部)

"There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man."-Albert Einstein, on Albert Schweitzer In July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg and celebrated authority on music and philosophy in order to go as a physician to French Equatorial Africa (present-day Gabon). The Prim...(展开全部)