The diary of a young Victorian boy born with clairvoyance.

An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sist...(展开全部)

An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sist...(展开全部)

威廉•坎宽巴 1987年8月5日出生于非洲马拉维的多瓦小镇。他14岁辍学，开始自学物理，摸索风车发电机的发明的制作方法，三年后试验成功，随后不断改进，19岁时被美国教授发现，他发明风车的事迹广为人知，得到重回校园的机会。20岁时，他受邀参加世界顶级精英汇聚的TED（科技、娱乐与设计）论坛，21岁时，在世界经济论坛非洲会议上发表演讲。如今他就读于美国新罕布什尔州的达特茅斯学院。 布赖恩•米勒 自由撰稿人，另著有《为生存而斗争：刚果的战争和救援故事》等。曾做过新闻记者，在《哈泼斯》和《君子》等知名杂志任职。

史蒂文·凯洛格，1941年10月26日出生于美国康乃狄克州。他自幼就非常喜爱图画书，并受到彼得兔（Beatrix Potter）和N.C.Wyeth的作品的启蒙，对任何与动物有关的故事都爱不释手。奶奶教授给的他许多植物和动物的知识，让他对人们可能忽略的微小事物都抱持着欣赏的态度。童年时代，史蒂文·凯洛格经常被妹妹们缠着“在纸上讲故事”，于是他就拿起笔在纸上画下心里的故事，一直不停地说啊画啊，直到妹妹们已经坐不住了，或是被一张又一张画纸没过头顶。就读设计学校时，史蒂文·凯洛格凭借杰出的能力拿到奖学金前往意大利佛罗伦萨学习，累积了许多绘画的经验与创意。回到美国后，除了在大学任教，史蒂文也开始创作图画书，实现他用书说故事的梦想。 史蒂文·凯洛格是美国当代最畅销的图画书作家之一，其作品在美国畅行四十年，影响了两代人的童年。20世纪60年代至今，史蒂文·凯洛格...(展开全部)

Written by a recipient of a MacArthur award, gained for her pioneering work on the storytelling technique and its use in the classroom, this book focuses on the challenge posed by the isolated child to teachers and classmates alike in the community of the classroom. It is the story of Jason - the loner and outsider - and his ultimate triumph and homecoming into the society of h...(展开全部)

The most successful journalist on the planet ... Malcolm has a talent Telegraph Mr Gladwell's writing style [is] iconic ... its clarity and easy grace remain difficult to emulate Wall Street Journal Gladwell is a virtuoso writer Independent He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than that he's a genius Times Malcolm Gladwell is ...(展开全部)

Everyday, John Patrick sets off along the road to school, and although he hurries, strange and improbable happenings repeatedly make him late. To make things worse, his teacher never believes his story. The author has also written "Would You Rather", "Mr Grumpy's Outing" and "Granpa".

废弃的摩托车零件、PVC管、自行车轮对大多数人来说都是垃圾，但在威廉•坎万巴手上这些东西则是创造机会的工具。风是马拉维农村少数不缺的资源之一，其中蕴含的能源在这位在饥荒和贫穷中长大的14岁少年眼中是实现梦想的强大力量。“通过一架风车，我们把自己从黑暗和饥饿中解放了出来。”他同时意识到：“一架风车不仅仅意味着电能，它还带来了自由。”村民的耻笑并没有影响年少的威廉钻研借来的旧课本并整天出没于机动车报废场——他在试图制造一种能产生“电风”的设备。这本书讲述了一个不屈不挠的意志对抗怀疑和实际困难的感人故事。 整本书大概分三部分： （1）作者目睹的非洲经济贫困、迷信巫术的落后生活，作者因家里没钱而辍学等童年经历 （2）小威廉没有放弃对知识的渴求。他在当地的小图书馆搜到了一本初级物理课本和一些风车的图表。他读不懂书中的英文，也找不到人帮助指导，他甚至没有一根电烙...(展开全部)

“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.” - The Atlantic Monthly The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Mac...(展开全部)