What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's instructions for raising infants, its comprehensive exploration of the first thre...(展开全部)

Should I really read to my baby? Is all TV bad, or only some TV? What kind of toys do babies need? Can teaching a baby sign language really boost IQ? How should my caregiver be stimulating my baby? Should I pipe classical music into the nursery? New parents are often overwhelmed with information and advice, and in an effort to give their babies the best chanc...(展开全部)

Here is the final collection of articles and speeches by the bestselling and world-renowned novelist, essayist, and philosopher.

安・兰德（Ayn Rand，1905一1982）全世界有史以来最畅销的作家之一，是20世纪美国最为知名、小说和论著卖出册数最多的作家、思想家和公共知识分子之一。 安・兰德最具哲学挑战意义的哲理小说《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》（又名《地球的震栗》）（AtlasShrugged）被评为“继圣经之后对当代美国人影响最大的一本书”。此外，她还著有长篇小说《生而为人》（We the Living）、《赞歌》（Anthem）和《源泉》（The Fountainhead）。 安・兰德独特的哲学――“客观主义”在全世界都具有广泛而深人的影响。她的哲学精神在她生前由以下四本代表性论著阐明：《客观主义认识论概论》（Introduction to ObjectivistEpistemology）、《致新知识分子》（For the NewIntellectual）、《自私的美德》（T...(展开全部)

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. These pieces, collected here, reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity.

Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of his friend and relaunches the debate about his ideas and legacy. ‘Foucault is not who you think he is’, write...(展开全部)

No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer, one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century. Ranging over 5,000 years, from the Sumerian city state to th...(展开全部)

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense of life, poverty and violence shift and obscure the facts; meanwhile his night-time reading of Irish legends weaves enchantment through reality. Claustrophobic but l...(展开全部)

A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets.