"Children do not need to be made to learn," Holt maintains, because each is born with what Einstein called "the holy curiosity of inquiry." For them, learning is as natural as breathing. First published in 1967, How Children Learn has become a classic for parents and teachers, providing an "effective, gentle voice of reason" (Life).

Description A thoughtful, deeply honest look at the transforming experience of parenthood and how our children can lead us to a more profound understnading of ourselves. 'Live with children long enough and beauty, love, innocence, play, pain, and death, everything appears in a new light...' Children: they have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and ...(展开全部)

Where Children Sleep presents English-born photographer James Mollison's large-format photographs of children's bedrooms around the world--from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India--alongside portraits of the children themselves. Each pair of photographs is accompanied by an extended caption that t...(展开全部)

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wild...(展开全部)

萨曼•鲁西迪（1947— ），英国著名作家。生于印度孟买一个穆斯林家庭，在英国接受教育。一九七五年他的第一部小说出版，第二部小说《午夜之子》为他赢得了国际声誉。之后他的一系列作品深入探讨了历史和哲学问题，被称为“后殖民文学教父”。 鲁西迪目前共出版长篇小说十部、短篇小说集三部，另有两部儿童作品、一部回忆录及十余部非小说作品。代表作《午夜之子》《羞耻》《摩尔人的最后叹息》《小丑萨利玛》《她脚下的土地》《佛罗伦萨的女巫》等。

萨曼•鲁西迪（1947— ），英国著名作家。生于印度孟买一个穆斯林家庭，在英国接受教育。一九七五年他的第一部小说出版，第二部小说《午夜之子》为他赢得了国际声誉。之后他的一系列作品深入探讨了历史和哲学问题，被称为“后殖民文学教父”。 鲁西迪目前共出版长篇小说十部、短篇小说集三部，另有两部儿童作品、一部回忆录及十余部非小说作品。代表作《午夜之子》《羞耻》《摩尔人的最后叹息》《小丑萨利玛》《她脚下的土地》《佛罗伦萨的女巫》等。

Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wild...(展开全部)

'Nicholas Orme knows more about medieval childhood than anyone living, and this substantial, hugely enjoyable book is the capstone on thirty years of scholarship.' The Independent 'charming and erudite' The Times 'a triumph of judicious scholarship and common sense ...Orme's is one of the most beautifully and intelligently illustrated academic works I've encountered ...a model ...(展开全部)

Children in the Middle Ages had far less time for the pleasures we associate with childhood. Marriages came earlier, and death from war, plague, and other perils was always at hand. Orme begins by exploring the definition of childhood and, managing that elegantly, proceeds to a surprisingly moving examination of the daily lives of medieval children from diverse classes and back...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·奥姆，英国埃克塞特大学历史系荣休教授，曾是牛津大学莫德林学院、圣约翰学院和亚利桑那大学等学校的访问学者。研究领域为中世纪研究、英国都铎王朝时期历史研究，专攻中世纪英国教育史、教会史与儿童史。