Grande Sertão: Veredas (Portuguese for "Big Backcountry: Tracks"; English translation: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands) is an influential novel published in 1956 by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa. The original title refers to the veredas - small paths of wetlands usually located at higher altitudes carachterized by the presence of grasses and buritizais, groups of t...(展开全部)

Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister Molly's beauty and popularity, and these feelings make it difficult for her to cope with Molly's illness and death.

莎伦·考夫曼（Sharon R. Kaufman），加州大学旧金山分校健康与老年研究所、社会与行为科学系教授，人类学、历史和社会医学系主任。考夫曼的研究兴趣包括一些相互关联的主题，如老年认同、主体性与晚年生活的意义，社会变迁与医学文化的转型，美国医院文化与晚期病人的临终，生物科技与伦理、医疗实践的关系，老年医疗保险政策与卫生保健体系改革，以及生命本身的人类学。由此可见，她的研究涉及医学人类学和老年人类学的许多核心议题。

<b>A schoolteacher fights to prove that her father’s suicide was actually murder</b><br /><br /> Ann hasn’t seen her mother in 3 years, and she doesn’t miss her at all. But without warning, Elaine shows up on her daughter’s doorstep, dead broke and hungry for scotch. Ann’s father has just come into an inheritance, and Elaine wants every penny. After a few drinks, she stumbles o...(展开全部)

A darkly funny and life-affirming debut novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine the story of one man who is offered a second chance at life and love when he develops an unexpected friendship--if he can expose the white lie he told years ago that grew into so much more. Andrew's day-to-day is a little grim, searching for next of kin for those who die alone. Than...(展开全部)

莎伦·考夫曼（Sharon R. Kaufman），加州大学旧金山分校健康与老年研究所、社会与行为科学系教授，人类学、历史和社会医学系主任。考夫曼的研究兴趣包括一些相互关联的主题，如老年认同、主体性与晚年生活的意义，社会变迁与医学文化的转型，美国医院文化与晚期病人的临终，生物科技与伦理、医疗实践的关系，老年医疗保险政策与卫生保健体系改革，以及生命本身的人类学。由此可见，她的研究涉及医学人类学和老年人类学的许多核心议题。

For use in schools and libraries only. When Trevor's social studies teacher gives the class an extra-credit assignment challenging his students to design a plan to change society, Trevor decides to start a goodwill chain.

It all started with the social studies teacher's extra-credit project: Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action. Whilst this proved a little ambitious for most of his classmates, twelve-year-old Trevor thought he would start by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he would ask them to "pay it forward" by doing a favour for thre...(展开全部)

An inspiring novel about an optimistic twelve-year-old who changes the world with a social studies project.

What if every person in the world do the other three would be a favor - and if those three people would then pass back a favor to three other ... and so on would be: Until the world to another? - Trevor, a boy, believes in the goodness of man, and fulfilled his hope of a better world, in an overpowering way.