Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal - a monkey's paw. Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and...(展开全部)

Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal - a monkey's paw. Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and...(展开全部)

In this exuberant novel, one of Italy's greatest living writers celebrates the art of storytelling and the spirit of work through weaving the mesmerizing t ales of an itinerant construction worker, Libertini Faussone, and a writer-chemist, the true and fictional Primo Levi.

This 20th-anniversary treasury features a special introduction and five full-length picture books - "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed", "Five Little Monkeys Bake a Cake", "Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree", "Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do", and "Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car" - as well as a lesson on how to draw your own fabulous monkeys. Sheets of colourful...(展开全部)

This 20th-anniversary treasury features a special introduction and five full-length picture books - "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed", "Five Little Monkeys Bake a Cake", "Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree", "Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do", and "Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car" - as well as a lesson on how to draw your own fabulous monkeys. Sheets of colourful...(展开全部)

Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideologi...(展开全部)