A favorite folk song about a clever fox who outsmarts a farmer provides the text for Peter Spier's splendid and humorous illustrations of a New England autumn night in a Caldecott Honor Book. Includes music for voice, guitar, piano, and all seven verses of the song.

In this story, follow the wily fox as he roams a sleepy New England town in search of a meal, with tones and textures so vivid you can almost hear the crackle of crisp fall leaves and the ripples of the river in the moonlight.

The "Old Ways" is the stunning new book by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize 2012. In "The Old Ways" Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting t...(展开全部)

From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places , an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling explor...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 以赛亚·伯林（Isaiah Berlin），英国哲学家、观念史学家，曾任牛津大学社会与政治理论教授、沃弗森学院院长，代表作有《自由及其背叛》《浪漫主义的根源》《现实感》等。 ----- 【编者简介】 亨利·哈迪（Henry Hardy），牛津大学沃弗森学院研究员，以赛亚·伯林的文学遗产受托人之一。 ----- 【译者简介】 唐建清，南京大学文学院退休教师，主要文学批评译著有《独抒己见》《莎士比亚的自由》《莎士比亚：欲望之火》《文学批评的革命者：五位改变我们阅读方式的批评家》《天才群星闪耀：1922 现代主义元年》等。

'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply used it, without implying anything about the true meaning of the words, to outline a...(展开全部)

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This fragment of verse by the Greek poet Archilochus describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy, in which he underlines a fundamental distinction between those people (foxes) who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those (hedgehogs) who relate everything to a centr...(展开全部)

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to ...(展开全部)

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 以赛亚·伯林（Isaiah Berlin），英国哲学家、观念史学家，曾任牛津大学社会与政治理论教授、沃弗森学院院长，代表作有《自由及其背叛》《浪漫主义的根源》《现实感》等。 ----- 【编者简介】 亨利·哈迪（Henry Hardy），牛津大学沃弗森学院研究员，以赛亚·伯林的文学遗产受托人之一。 ----- 【译者简介】 唐建清，南京大学文学院退休教师，主要文学批评译著有《独抒己见》《莎士比亚的自由》《莎士比亚：欲望之火》《文学批评的革命者：五位改变我们阅读方式的批评家》《天才群星闪耀：1922 现代主义元年》等。