Learn the methods used by Yeats , February 4, 2008 By N. Gallo (western Massachusetts) Helen Vendler's analysis of Yeats' poetry is thorough and mind-boggling in detail. She deals with his early work by comparing it to its sources. She considers it fairly thought-free. His later work becomes more complex, very disciplined and captures the flavor of the times. The Irish war for...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 海伦·文德勒(HelenVendler)，美国文学评论界的领军人物，被称为当代极为优秀、敏锐的诗歌评论家之一。1933年出生于马萨诸塞州，1960年获得哈佛大学文学博士学位，先后在康奈尔大学、波士顿大学等大学任职。1984年开始在哈佛大学英语系任教，兼任美国艺术与科学研究院院士。1990年，被任命为哈佛大学亚瑟·金斯利·波特讲座教授。文德勒专注于诗人和诗歌作品的细读，被誉为具有“铁血战士般的战斗力”，是一位“力量型的诗歌读者”。她多年来笔耕不辍，推出多部关于英美诗人的专著，因为卓越的贡献，获得了代表美国最高人文成就的国家人文基金等无数荣誉和奖项。 在《巴黎评论》上，她解释了她科学家一般精确的诗歌细读法和批评实践原则：“你必须以非常清晰的方式为你的假设提供证据；你的方程式必须是均衡的；左侧必须与右侧保持平衡。一件事必须导致下一件事，所有...(展开全部)

Learn the methods used by Yeats , February 4, 2008 By N. Gallo (western Massachusetts) Helen Vendler's analysis of Yeats' poetry is thorough and mind-boggling in detail. She deals with his early work by comparing it to its sources. She considers it fairly thought-free. His later work becomes more complex, very disciplined and captures the flavor of the times. The Irish war for...(展开全部)

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitiv...(展开全部)

玛乔丽·菲尔茨博士 玛乔丽·菲尔茨（Marjorie V. Fields）博士在幼儿教育领域工作长达30余年，最近刚刚退休。她一开始在幼儿园执教，然后执教一年级，再后来从事教师教育工作。幸运的是她有了自己的孩子，于是也拥有了合作性学前班以及其他多种儿童的看护经验。 在家长参与方面的研究让玛乔丽获得了幼儿教育博士学位。她一直活跃于国家和地方的幼儿教育专业组织，目前担任全美幼儿教师教育协会（NAECTE）主席，还曾担任过该组织的副会长。她曾供职于全美幼教协会（NAEYC）的国家管理委员会，也曾出版过大量关于前读写领域的教材，包括教科书《让我们现在开始阅读》和儿童指导方面的教材。 本书是作者30多年来阅读和思考以及设立与教授早期儿童纪律教育课程的成果。菲尔茨博士认为，是她的两个儿子最先让她明白了对于儿童指导和纪律教育来说什么是最重要的。现在，她还在继续从她...(展开全部)

For twenty-five years, Positive Discipline has been the gold standard reference for grown-ups working with children. Now Jane Nelsen, distinguished psychologist, educator, and mother of seven, has written a revised and expanded edition. The key to positive discipline is not punishment, she tells us, but mutual respect. Nelsen coaches parents and teachers to be both firm and kin...(展开全部)

Sir D'Arcy W. Thompson CB FRS FRSE (1860-1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist, he is mainly remembered as the author of ON GROWTH AND FORM, an influential work of striking originality and elegance. The central theme of ON GROWTH AND FORM is that biologists of its author's day overemphasized evolution as the fun...(展开全部)

达西·汤普森（D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ，1860—1948）是苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学动物学教授，也许是本世纪最博学的人。

In this book Paul Rand said to be one of the world's leading graphic designers, speaks about the contemporary practice of graphic design, explaining the processes and passion that foster good design and indicting fadism and trendiness. Illustrating his ideas with examples of his own graphic work as well as with the work of artists he admires, Rand discusses such topics as: the ...(展开全部)

理查德•艾尔曼（Richard Ellmann，1918—1987）是二十世纪现代主义文学权威，尤其在爱尔兰文学研究方面堪称一代学术巨匠。他曾就学于耶鲁大学和都柏林圣三一学院，后在哈佛、耶鲁、牛津等名校任教与讲学。从1970年起，担任牛津大学哥德史密斯英语文学教授， 直至1984年荣休。艾尔曼一生治学严谨，著述精益求精，代表作有传记《叶芝：真人与假面》《乔伊斯传》和《王尔德传》，其中《乔伊斯传》获得1959年美国国家图书奖，《王尔德传》获得1989年普利策传记奖，在西方学界备受推崇。他的其他作品还有文学评论集《川流复始》《都柏林文学四杰》等，并编有《詹姆斯•乔伊斯书信集》《诺顿现代诗选》等。