Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it...(展开全部)

Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply - and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while their victim will come and they will know what to do.

Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is the newest incarnation of Garry Landreth's comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play. It details the Child-Centered Play Therapy model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child's world and perspective. This approach facilitates the play therapy process while allowing therapist...(展开全部)

Pete the Cat is ready to play baseball! Pete's team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when the game doesn't go Pete's way, what will Pete do?

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture ...(展开全部)

作者：卡尔·施米特（Carl Schmitt，1888－1985），德国法学家、政治思想家，他以“决断论”的法学立场闻名，是实证主义法学、自由主义政治哲学的重要批评者。他被西方学界公认为“最后一位欧洲公法学家”，至今仍对人文知识界有重大影响。他的主要作品有《政治的概念》《政治的神学》《政治的浪漫派》《霍布斯国家学说中的利维坦》《大地的法》等。 译者：姜林静，德国海德堡大学德语文学博士，复旦大学外文学院德文系副教授，主要研究德语文学中的政治学与神学思想、德奥古典音乐与文学的交互关系、19至20世纪德语诗歌。译作有《什么是德意志音乐》《盼望：为了尚未完满的世界》，另著有《德语“音乐诗歌”的艺术》《沙仑的玫瑰》（合著）。

作者：卡尔·施米特（Carl Schmitt，1888－1985），德国法学家、政治思想家，他以“决断论”的法学立场闻名，是实证主义法学、自由主义政治哲学的重要批评者。他被西方学界公认为“最后一位欧洲公法学家”，至今仍对人文知识界有重大影响。他的主要作品有《政治的概念》《政治的神学》《政治的浪漫派》《霍布斯国家学说中的利维坦》《大地的法》等。 译者：姜林静，德国海德堡大学德语文学博士，复旦大学外文学院德文系副教授，主要研究德语文学中的政治学与神学思想、德奥古典音乐与文学的交互关系、19至20世纪德语诗歌。译作有《什么是德意志音乐》《盼望：为了尚未完满的世界》，另著有《德语“音乐诗歌”的艺术》《沙仑的玫瑰》（合著）。

From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our lives We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-c...(展开全部)

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial distric...(展开全部)

提姆·希金斯(Tim Higgins)，《华尔街日报》科技与汽车专栏记者，多次登上CNBC、福克斯商业与CNN国际频道的节目。他的作品曾获得“美国商业编辑与作家协会”所颁发的多个奖项。