In 2008, the world’s financial system stood on the brink of disaster. The United States faced an unprecedented crisis when the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off a global panic. Faced with the prospect of a new Great Depression, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and other agencies took extraordinary meas...(展开全部)

劳拉·瓦卡罗·希格 美国杰出插画家。其图画书作品因简洁+创意而深受好评，并擅长使用翻翻书、洞洞书的技巧带给读者一次次的视觉惊喜。从纽约州威斯特斯特的美术设计专业毕业后，来到纽约从事动画、艺术创作，以及网络电视编辑。连续多年为NBC和ABC制作节目开场和花絮，并因一开场动画为NBC特别节目赢得艾美奖。 她从小就梦想成为艺术家，两岁开始画画，至今笔耕不辍，是美国《纽约时报》的畅销书作者。2001年至今出版了10余册绘本，屡获美国各项图画书大奖——包括2008凯迪克银牌奖（《先有蛋》）、2007《纽约时报》最佳图画书奖（《先有蛋》）、2007《波士顿环球报》/《号角书》最佳图画书奖（《狗狗和熊熊》）等。 目前，劳拉与家人定居在纽约州长岛。家中还有一个特别的成员——狗狗库伯，它可是《狗狗和熊熊》里面的狗狗原型呢。

在线阅读本书 WHICH CAME FIRST? The chicken or the egg? Simple die-cuts magically present transformation-- from seed to flower, tadpole to frog, caterpillar to butterfly. The acclaimed author of Black? White! Day? Night! and Lemons Are Not Red gives an entirely fresh and memorable presentation to the concepts of transformation and creatiity. Seed becomes flower, paint becomes ...(展开全部)

Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His ongoing three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was published in 2001, is likely to become the standard academic reference work: Max Hastings called it 'one of the most impressive books of modern history in a generation', while Richard Holmes hailed it as a 'towering achievemen...(展开全部)

It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographs—including early color photographs— The First World War re-creates...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

约翰•基根，伦敦《每日电讯报》防务主编，英国皇家文学学会会员，1998年BBC瑞思讲演人（Reith Lecturer），多年在英国桑霍斯特皇家军事学院讲授军事史课程，并任普林斯顿大学高级研究院研究员和瓦萨尔学院客座教授，是当代最优秀的军事史家之一。著有A History of Warfare, The Second World War, The Face of Battle, The Mask of Command, Battle at Sea等。

在线阅读本书 Janusz Korczak was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over twenty books--his fiction was in his time as well known as Peter Pan , and his nonfiction works bore passionate messages of child advocacy. During World War II, the Jewish orphanage he directed was relocated to the Warsaw ghetto. Although Korczak's celebrity afforded him many chances to escape, he refuse...(展开全部)

A visually arresting adaptation of Albert Camus’s masterful biographical novel that offers a new graphic interpretation for the next generation of readers. This new illustrated of Camus’s final novel tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus’s own. This stunning, fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood...(展开全部)