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)

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)

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)

The Ark of Speech investigates the interplay of speech and silence in the dialogue between God and human beings, one human being and another, and human beings and the world. Ranging from the Old Testament and its depiction of God's creative word and responsiveness to human beings, via the New Testament and its focus on the life and words of Jesus as the Word of the Father, the...(展开全部)

The Ark of Speech investigates the interplay of speech and silence in the dialogue between God and human beings, one human being and another, and human beings and the world. Ranging from the Old Testament and its depiction of God's creative word and responsiveness to human beings, via the New Testament and its focus on the life and words of Jesus as the Word of the Father, the...(展开全部)

The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood ? a manmade plague ? has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest ...(展开全部)

被誉为“加拿大文学女王”的玛格丽特•阿特伍德是一位勤奋多产的作家，她获得过除诺贝尔文学奖之外的几乎所有的国际文学奖和不计其数的其他奖励和荣誉，并被多伦多大学等十多所国内外大学授予荣誉博士学位，享有很高的国际声誉。其作品已被译成30多种文字。 自从1969年，她出版了第一部长篇小说《可以吃的女人》之后，她的作品频频获奖，这也为她赢得了广泛的国际声誉。她创作的三部优秀长篇小说《女仆的故事》（1985）、《猫眼》（1988）、《别名格雷斯》（1996）曾三次获得布克奖提名，最后凭借第十部小说《盲刺客》摘得了这项最高文学奖的桂冠。 阿特伍德的影响不仅跨越了国界，也跨越了文学领域。她一直十分关注美国文化对加拿大无所不在的强大影响和加拿大日益美国化的倾向；为抗拒这种倾向，她大力支持以推进独立的加拿大民族文化为宗旨的阿南西出版社，做了很多实实在在的工作；她帮助成立...(展开全部)

A lone figure in a diving suit drags an enormous wooden ark through the desert, scarring the earth with its deep furrow. A plane crashes. A zeppelin prowls the azure skies, its crew seduced by caged women, while Bedouins and soldiers clash under the blazing sun. This poetic tale entrances as it pulls all these elements and characters together into a haunting yet mesmerizing can...(展开全部)