If you plant ten seeds, what do you get? Follow nature's wonderful cycle in this engaging counting book with a difference!

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life . Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed lower castes. Instead...(展开全部)

奈保尔(Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul)，英籍印度裔作家。1932年8月17日出生于中美洲特立尼达和多巴哥。18岁赴牛津大学求学，获得文学学士学位后定居英国。曾任BBC“加勒比之声”栏目主持人3年。游走世界各地写作多年，批判发展中社会的精神和物质的双重匮乏，语多辛辣诙谐。主要作包括《灵异推拿师》（约翰·卢埃林·里斯纪念奖），《米格尔大街》（萨莫塞特·毛姆奖），《黑暗之地》，《印度：一个伤痕累累的文明》，《自由国度》（1971年布克奖），《河湾》，《半生》，《魔种》等。1990年获英国皇室封爵；1993年，成为英国大卫·柯恩文学奖首位获奖者，该奖旨在表彰“尚在人世的英国作家一生的成就”。2001年，因“作品中兼具犀利的叙述与正直的洞察，迫使我们正视那些被压抑的历史的存在”，被授予诺贝尔文学奖。

From the Nobel laureate–a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us. Willie Chandran–whom we first met in Half a Life–is a man in his early forties who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him, as if he could truly know himself by becoming what others imagine him to be. His life has tak...(展开全部)

A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women , and The Cyclops .

A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women , and The Cyclops .

[美] 艾丽莎·惠勒（Eliza Wheeler） 美国童书插画家、作家。从小在威斯康星州北部一个艺术家和老师组成的家庭长大。她的图画书《枫树婆婆的种子》一经出版就登上《纽约时报》的畅销书排行榜，她与Pat Zietlow Miller合作的图画书WHEREVER YOU GO，获得了儿童图书作家协会颁发的水晶风筝奖和插画家奖。艾丽莎·惠勒曾获得国际儿童文学与插画创作协会（SCBWI）的投资组合大奖，莫里斯·桑达克基金会的插画研习赞助。目前，她与丈夫一起住在洛杉矶。

A gift from a wizard makes Jack's fortune grow by ones and twos, then threes and fours, then faster and faster, challenging you to keep track of his riches.

A gift from a wizard makes Jack's fortune grow by ones and twos, then threes and fours, then faster and faster, challenging you to keep track of his riches.

全球畅销书作家杰弗里•M.史密斯（Jeffrey M. Smith）是说明转基因生物产品健康危害的首席代言人，“基因免费学校”运动的发起人，“负责的技术”研究所的执行主席，电视栏目《儿童食品的安全隐患》和纪录片《转基因生物三部曲》的独立制作人。1998年，为了让公众更好地认识到转基因农作物对健康和环境的危害性，他参加了美国议员竞选，成为美国国会转基因食品市场监测实验室的副主席。2003年，他写了第一本有关转基因食物的书《种子的欺骗》，阐述转基因食物严重而未知的副作用。该书以其令全球敬仰的专业研究和与读者充满魅力的交流风格吸引了公众的目光，成为有关转基因食物健康风险方面的全球最畅销书，并被认为能激发消费者改变购物习惯，转而购买更安全的非转基因食物。2007年，他又在新书《转基因赌局》中，揭露了有关转基因生物安全性试验的内部文件，再次引起读者的共鸣。 ...(展开全部)