In this picture book starring the world’s most imaginative pig, Olivia embarks upon a quest for identity with very lofty goals—and being a princess is NOT one of them! Olivia is having an identity crisis! There are too many ruffly, sparkly princesses around these days, and Olivia has had quite enough. She needs to stand out! She has to be special! She wants to do more than jus...(展开全部)

伊恩福尔克纳（Ian Falconer）：他身兼舞台设计师和艺术家，虽然一开始并没有打算成为童书的作者，却有一个令人印象深刻的艺术背景。他相继在纽约大学、帕森设计学院和奥蒂斯艺术设计学院学习艺术与设计。他也曾经与知名的艺术家大卫霍克尼在纽约、洛杉矶、芝加哥和伦敦等地设计并展出系列的舞台作品和服装。此外，他还为《纽约客》(TheNew Yorker)画过无数的插图和封面。 然而，谁也没想到伊恩福尔克纳将自己的即兴随笔《奥莉薇》(Olivia)当做礼物送给小侄女，却成就了一系列受全球孩子追捧的图画书，并为他摘取了2001年美国凯迪克大奖以及系列的奖项和荣誉。在采访中，伊恩福尔克纳描述了当时仍是婴儿的侄女的眼睛(绝非偶然！侄女的名字就叫奥莉薇！)，他承认“我才刚为那双眼睛深深着迷，下一刻我就决定要做个礼物送给她，所以我开始着手绘制这本书。 柳漾，儿童文学工...(展开全部)

The Art and Power of Facilitation: Running Powerful Meetings provides powerful tools that the business analyst can use to negotiate through the myriad of meetings, informal work sessions, and formal workshops that are necessary to develop business requirements.

The Art and Power of Facilitation: Running Powerful Meetings provides powerful tools that the business analyst can use to negotiate through the myriad of meetings, informal work sessions, and formal workshops that are necessary to develop business requirements.

The first scholarly comparative analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of difference Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze are best known for their respective attempts to theoretically formulate non-dialectical conceptions of difference. Now, for the first time, Vernon W. Cisney brings you a scholarly analysis of their contrasting concepts of difference. Cis...(展开全部)

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequen...(展开全部)

Unabridged on mp3 audio disk. How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squ...(展开全部)

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.

A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfa...(展开全部)

In The Power of the Actor , a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood. The first book from the instructor who has taught Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, Elisabeth Shue, Djimon Hounsou, and Halle Berry, The Power of the Actor ...(展开全部)