Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

J.M.库切 J. M. Coetzee 1940年生于南非，当代最重要的作家之一，两次获得布克奖，2003年诺贝尔文学奖得主。作品包括《等待野蛮人》《迈克尔·K的生活和时代》《耻》《夏日》《耶稣的童年》，等等。库切现居澳大利亚。 阿拉贝拉·库尔茨 Arabella Kurtz 英国心理学家，曾在英国国家卫生局的法医心理健康部门担任要职，目前是英国莱斯特大学临床心理学高级导师。

Praise for THE GOOD STORY "Coetzee's writing is characteristically spare and penetrating....Kurtz proves both a lucid expositor and an evocative literary stylist, bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to life with rare precision and immediacy." —Literary Review "It is the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist's agenda that drives the absorbing discussions of this book. Kurtz'...(展开全部)

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)

简介：作者八百年前写的简介，现在看觉得太tm社死了，全删了，封面就是简介。。。不会再有正文更新了，大纲都没列出来的辣鸡玩意。不是日更！不是日更！不是日更！————————md受不了，我要自产自销

一部从古希腊到二十一世纪的无理数的有趣而有启发性的历史 古希腊人发现了无理数，但直到19世纪，无理数才被正确地理解和严格地定义，即使在今天，无理数的所有奥秘也没有被揭示出来。在《无理数》一书中，Julian Havil讲述了无理数的故事，以及从古代到21世纪解决无理数挑战的数学家。在这本书中，他解释了为什么无理数令人惊讶地难以定义，以及为什么围绕着无理数还有这么多问题。这本书引人入胜，发人深省，适合所有热爱数学及其背后历史的人。 An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't u...(展开全部)

The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed. In The Irrationals, the first popular and comprehensive book on the subject, Julian Havil tells the story of irrational numbers and the mathematicians who have tackled t...(展开全部)

It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird. Swifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve-week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition of summer. They may nest in our homes but much about their lives passes over our heads. No birds are more wreathed in mystery. Captivat...(展开全部)

Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, there's a good bit of staggering genius before you even get to the true story, including a preface, a list of "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book," and a 20-page acknowle...(展开全部)