In just over five years of syndication, Calvin and Hobbes has become an American comic strip sensation - touching the hearts (and funny bones) of the millions who read the award-winning strip. One look at the new Calvin and Hobbes collection and it is immediately evident that Bill Watterson's imagination, wit, and sense of adventure continue to be unmatched. In this collectio...(展开全部)

YUKON HO! marks the hilarious hat-trick of the hugely popular cartoon characters Calvin and Hobbes.

New York Times best-seller! Watterson's imaginative approach to his material and his inventive graphics have made Calvin and Hobbes one of the few universally admired by other cartoonists." --Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times Book Review Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only...(展开全部)

YUKON HO! marks the hilarious hat-trick of the hugely popular cartoon characters Calvin and Hobbes.

What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In Inventing Temperature, Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of standard thermometers; and how they managed to assess the...(展开全部)

The 2001 Festival Of Cartoon Art at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library will feature Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. The exhibit will be called "Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995." It is scheduled to run September 10, 2001 to January 15, 2002. Andrews McMeel will publish the exhibit catalog that will reprint all 36 of the works in the exhibit, and...(展开全部)

L.G.Alexander，世界著名的英语教学权威，曾任欧洲现代语言教学委员会理事。其著作为交际教学法奠定基础，其中一些如NCE和Follow Me已成经典教材。 何其莘博士，现任北京外国语大学副校长、英美文学教授、博士生导师。著有《英国文艺复兴时期文学史》、《英国戏剧选读》和Listen to This等。

Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the heart of the Roman republican tradition of public life. Thomas Hobbes was the most formidable enemy of this pattern of thought, an...(展开全部)

Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the heart of the Roman republican tradition of public life. Thomas Hobbes was the most formidable enemy of this pattern of thought, an...(展开全部)

A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now? Voltaire could believe that they did; Hegel was convinced that they did not. Early philoso...(展开全部)