As Spring approaches, Mother Earth wakes her sleepy children, deep below the earth, the children yawn and stretch. Soon their hands are busy, stitching new clothes in bright spring colours. The dust of the bumblebees, scrub the beetles and paint splendid new coats on the ladybirds. The children jubilantly emerge from the earth where they become the flowers of Spring. In rhyming...(展开全部)

Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crim...(展开全部)

A translator and writer, Maria José Silveira's first novel, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters, won a major Brazilian literary award and the rights were purchased by TV Globo. Since then, she has written six other books--including a couple highly praised YA titles--along with three plays. Eric M. B. Becker is editor of Words without Borders and an award-winning jour...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second-grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter.Not surprisingly, Ramona takes an active h...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second-grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter.Not surprisingly, Ramona takes an active h...(展开全部)

阿诺德·汤因比，生于1889年4月14日，卒于1975年10月22日。英国历史学家。牛津大学毕业，曾任该校研究员（1912-1915）；第一次世界大战时期曾在英国外交部情报部工作（1918）；战后作为英国代表团的成员出席过巴黎和会（1919）；二十年代先后担任过伦敦大学教授（1924）、皇家国际问题研究所部长（1925）、伦敦大学国际关系史教授；二次大战时期曾任英国外交部调查部长（1943-1946）；后任伦敦皇家国际事务学会研究部主任。 汤因比一生著作颇多，主要有《历史研究》12卷，先后于1934-1961年出版，这部著作以综合观点对人类历史进行了新的展望；另还有《民族与战争》（1915）、《希腊的历史思想》（1924）、《1924-1938年国际事务概述》、《经受考验的文明》（1948）以及《人类与大地母亲》、《一个历史学家的宗教观》等。

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all reference...(展开全部)

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all reference...(展开全部)