"Whatever the task, whether keeping afour-year-old quiet in public, housebreaking a puppy,coaching a team, or memorizing a poem, it will gofast, and better, and be more fun, if you know howto use reinforcement."--KarenPryor. Now Karen Pryor clearly explains theunderlying principles of behavioral training and throughnumerous fascinating examples reveals how this artcan be appli...(展开全部)

作者簡介 凱倫．布萊爾（Karen Pryor） 作家、動物行為學家、也是揚名國際的科學家，專精行為心理學和海洋哺乳動物生物學。她創立了美國夏威夷的「海洋生物世界」（Sea Life Park），是引領海豚訓練的先驅，她在該處結識了知名心理學家史金納（B. F. Skinner）博士及動物行為學家勞倫茲（Konrad Lorenz），並與二人共事。 布萊爾女士曾任美國政府指派的「海洋哺乳動物委員會」（Marine Mammal Commission）委員，並擔任過美國太空總署及國家動物園等多個組織機構的顧問，提供有關人類、動物之行為和學習的諮詢，曾任「劍橋行為科學研究中心」（the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Sciences）的理事之一。 她的第一本著作《為寶貝哺乳》（Nursing Your Baby）已銷售兩...(展开全部)

Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the MacArthur "Genius" Grant. A New York Times bestseller In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader...(展开全部)

马里奥•巴尔加斯•略萨 Mario Vargas Llosa 著名作家，世界小说大师 被誉为“结构现实主义大师”。 1985年获海明威文学奖。 1986年获西班牙阿里图里亚斯王子文学奖。 1988年获美洲金质奖章。 1994年获西班牙文学的最高荣誉——塞万提斯文学奖。 1999年获以色列耶路撒冷文学奖。 2000年获梅嫩德斯•佩拉约国际奖。 1976年被推选为国际笔会主席。 2010年获诺贝尔文学奖。

When at last Zac become aware,he found himself in a place that had been stripped of every shred of color. Some pain was like that, so intense, so personal, that it tore away all subtlety from the world and left nothing but obliterating darkness and flashes of blinding, impenetrable light...The pain they had inflicted had been, literally, unimaginable. The sort of pain that mak...(展开全部)

When Harry Jones discovers that former friend Zac Kravitz's life is in danger, a debt of honour sends him on a perilous rescue mission to Ta'argistan, a mountainous and landlocked former Soviet republic bordering Russia, China and Afghanistan. Muscling his way onto a delegation of MPs who happen to be paying the state a visit, Harry finds an unlikely ally in the stubbornly inde...(展开全部)

When Harry Jones discovers that former friend Zac Kravitz's life is in danger, a debt of honour sends him on a perilous rescue mission to Ta'argistan, a mountainous and landlocked former Soviet republic bordering Russia, China and Afghanistan. Muscling his way onto a delegation of MPs who happen to be paying the state a visit, Harry finds an unlikely ally in the stubbornly inde...(展开全部)

马里奥•巴尔加斯•略萨Mario Vargas Llosa 著名作家，世界小说大师，被誉为“结构现实主义大师”，囊获全球重要文学大奖，包括诺贝尔文学奖：1985年获海明威文学奖，1986年获西班牙阿里图里亚斯王子文学奖，1988年获美洲金质奖章，1994年获西班牙文学的*高荣誉——塞万提斯文学奖，1999年获以色列耶路撒冷文学奖，2000年获梅嫩德斯•佩拉约国际奖，1976年被推选为国际笔会主席，2010年获诺贝尔文学奖。

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa is ‘a work of undeniable power and skill’ (Sunday Telegraph) set in a military academy in Lima, focusing on a group of cadets whose pranks set of a cycle of betrayal, murder and revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy. The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish ...(展开全部)

Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of "The Well of Ascension" only by becoming a Mistborn hims...(展开全部)