Told in rhyming text, Excavator, Bulldozer, Crane Truck, Dump Truck, and Cement Mixer will all need to work together as they tackle their biggest job yet--a massive building.

Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black? She was also a passionate young princess who loved dancing. And there is also a third Victoria, the brilliant queen, one who invented a new role for the monarchy. Victoria found a way of ruling when people were deeply uncomfortable with having a woman on the throne. Her image as ...(展开全部)

This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the er...(展开全部)

This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the er...(展开全部)

From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar, Mary on chocolate and Anne was known as 'Brandy Nan'. Victoria ate all of this and more. The Greedy Queen celebrates Victoria's appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life. Born in May 1819, Victoria came 'as plump as a partridge'. In her early years she ...(展开全部)

历史学家、厨师、广播节目主持人和作家，专攻公元1600年至今的英国食物史，不止在图书馆，也在厨房进行她的研究。她曾任职于奥德莉庄园厨房等历史悠久的厨房，并在全英各地授课。她主持了包括英国广播公司（BBC）《维多利亚烘焙师》（Victorian Bakers）在内的历史纪实节目，并出现在英国广播公司第四广播电台（BBC Radio 4）的《厨房橱柜》（The Kitchen Cabinet）节目中。现居东安格利亚（East Anglia）。

Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, C...(展开全部)

The Victorians we meet in this volume range from the capitalists in the top tier of the bourgeoisie, eager to be recognized as gentlemen, to the clerks and craftsmen fearful of sinking into the proletariat. Peter Gay's aim throughout this sweeping work of cultural history is to widen our perception of Victorian bourgeois life, to replace monochromatic generalizations with revea...(展开全部)

Science museums have paradoxes at their core. They must be accessible and fun while representing increasingly complex science. They must be both historic and contemporary. Their exhibits attract millions, but most of their objects remain in deep storage, seldom seen. This book delves into these conflicts, revealing the secret lives of science curators; where science objects com...(展开全部)

彼得·盖伊（Peter Gay，1923—2015），德裔美国历史学家，耶鲁大学荣休教授。1923年生于柏林，1938年移民美国，在哥伦比亚大学获得博士学位，先后任教于哥伦比亚大学、耶鲁大学。著作等身，研究广泛涉及启蒙运动、中产阶级等诸多社会文化史领域。曾荣获美国国家图书奖、美国历史学会杰出学术贡献奖、美国艺术与文学院金奖。 早期代表作之一《启蒙时代》（The Enlightenment: An Interpretation）在文化史研究领域具有典范意义，五卷本《布尔乔亚经验》（The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud）是其晚年最重要的作品。 译者简介： 赵勇，大连外国语大学高级翻译学院教授，全国人大常委会法工委法律英文译审专家委员会委员，南京大学博士，美国波士顿大学访问学者，主要译著有《社会理论与现代社...(展开全部)