For 40 days and 40 nights rain poured from the heavens, enveloping the world. Only Noah had been warned by God of the great flood and only Noah could save life on earth. This powerful story of salvation has fascinated people of all ages for centuries. Now, four-time Caldecott Honor-recipient Jerry Pinkney captures all the courage, drama, and beauty of this ancient parable in ri...(展开全部)

The author uses his own translation of a 17-century Dutch poem about the most famous menagerie. Sparkling, fun-filled, full-color illustrations. Caldecott Medal winner.

The bee and the fox, the sheep and the ox--two of  each kind trudged aboard Noah's famous vessel.  Peter Spier uses his own translation of a  seventeenth-century Dutch poem about this most famous  menagerie. A Caldecott Medal Book, The  American Book Award, An ALA Notable Children's Book, A  New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year  (1977), The Christopher Award, Inte...(展开全部)

Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a "displaced philosopher," Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure to "think architecture in a different key," as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction. Drawn to architecture because it provides "an open series of structural models," Damisch examines th...(展开全部)

Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must m...(展开全部)

The Long Arc of Legality I am working on a book titled The Long Arc of Legality, which traces a trajectory in modern thought about the role of law in constituting a legitimate political order, from Thomas Hobbes to this day. It seeks to vindicate a claim that will seem part and parcel of Hobbes's general authoritarian political philosophy and deeply repugnant to a liberal democ...(展开全部)

Book Description When in 1154 A.D. Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine of France, he became at once the reigning sovereign over a vast stretch of land extending across all of England and half of France, and yet, according to the feudal hierarchy of the times, a vassal to the King of France. This situation, which placed French and English borders in such a tenuous p...(展开全部)

The Long Arc of Legality I am working on a book titled The Long Arc of Legality, which traces a trajectory in modern thought about the role of law in constituting a legitimate political order, from Thomas Hobbes to this day. It seeks to vindicate a claim that will seem part and parcel of Hobbes's general authoritarian political philosophy and deeply repugnant to a liberal democ...(展开全部)

Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.S. bid for regional dominance, according to Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine. This effort unfolded as an imperial project in which military power and the imposition of America's political will were crucial. Devoting equal attention to Asian and American perspective...(展开全部)

迈克尔·亨特（Michael Hunt） 外交史界常青树 ★ 美国前国务院顾问 ★ 美国“杰出学术成果奖”获得者 ★ 美国外交关系史学家 迈克尔·亨特专攻美国外交关系史已有40 多年，曾先后执教于耶鲁大学和科尔盖特大学，现任北卡罗来纳大学终身名誉教授。同时他还是《外交史》《美国外交》等重要刊物的常驻编辑，著有11 部权威性著作。