Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armour and with the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to the US Pacific Fleet in the Second World War. The book contains a full description of the design and construction of the battleship including wartime modifications, and a career history followed by a substantial pictorial...(展开全部)

おっちゃんのお腹の上で、安心しきって眠る子ブタ。 新聞を読むおっちゃんのうしろからそっと覗き込むブタ。 おっちゃんがギターを持つと、ブタが集まってきて即席コンサートの始まりです。 朝から晩まで、さらには家の中まで。 おっちゃんの周りにはいつも、きらきらと目を輝かせたブタがまとわりついてきます。 香川県で養豚場を営み、まるで家族のように1200頭のブタと暮らすおっちゃん。 大量飼育・大量生産化に伴い、餌やりから糞尿の処理までどんどん機械化が進む養豚業界で、 おっちゃんは自らの手で、一頭ずつ丁寧に愛情を込めてブタを育てています。 農林水産大臣に幾度も表彰される程の腕を持ったおっちゃんの養豚場では 単に生産するという域を超えた、愛するものと共に生きる喜びが溢れています。 市役所職員として農林水産行政に携わる中、おっちゃんに出会った著者が 10年にわたり撮り...(展开全部)

This picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. But the wolf's huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story . . . and into the realm of pure imagination. The transition signals the start of a freewheeling adventure with characteristic David Wiesner eff...(展开全部)

Beautiful Caroline Crale as convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried 'wee w...(展开全部)

Beautiful Caroline Crale as convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried 'wee w...(展开全部)

This picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. But the wolf's huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story . . . and into the realm of pure imagination. The transition signals the start of a freewheeling adventure with characteristic David Wiesner eff...(展开全部)

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In Pigs Make Me Sneeze! , Gerald believes he is allergic to his best friend! Will he have to stay away from Piggie forever?

How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion. In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived...(展开全部)