文字作者，艾诺·桑卡德（Arnold Sundgaard），诗人，剧作家，1909年出生于一个挪威家庭里，卒于2006年。1935年他从美国威斯康辛州立大学获得英语学士学位后，到耶鲁大学戏剧学院进修，学成后曾在哥伦比亚大学，伯明顿大学和德克萨斯州立大学教授戏剧。 Arnold一生创作过很多经典戏剧，多部剧目在百老汇上演，其中《Giants in the Earth》曾获普利策音乐奖。晚年转向儿童图画书的创作，他有位久负盛名的搭档——Eric Carl，两人于1988年共同创作了《小羊和蝴蝶》。 绘画作者，艾瑞·卡尔（Eric Carle），1929年出生于纽约，兼具写作与插画能力的绘本创作作家，投身于儿童文学的创作超过40年，致力于为儿童打造一个自由、充满想象的童话世界，共创作了70余本有趣、美丽、富含想像力的作品，荣获多项世界著名儿童文学奖。艾瑞的...(展开全部)

Discover the hidden world of the meadow in this unique combination of poetry riddles and science wisdom. Beginning with the rising sun and ending with twilight, this book takes us on a tour through the fields, encouraging us to watch for a nest of rabbits, a foamy spittlebug, a leaping grasshopper, bright milkweed, a quick fox, and a cruising hawk.

Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists - including writers, illustrators and colourists - from 13 countries, to salute the unique imagination of China's science fiction grandmaster. Bombs fall through the night sky and the city of Belgrade burns. Its citizens huddle in basements, terrified for their lives. In the heart of the city, ...(展开全部)

Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline and Fall of the Roman Emp...(展开全部)

Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline and Fall of the Roman Emp...(展开全部)

1854. Part One of Five. English essayist and poet, Charles Lamb (pen name Elia), studied at Christ's Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When he was twenty years old Lamb suffered a period of insanity. His sister, Mary Ann Lamb, had similar problems and in 1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness. Mary was confined to an asylum but w...(展开全部)

In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysis and Re-Visioning Psychology , James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung.

A play based on the true story of a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, posted to Peking, who fell in love with a seductive opera singer, named Shi Pei Pu, apparently unaware that Pei Pu was a man. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses the science of simplicity and complexity, describing the intricate interrelationships that exist in nature between the simple (a quark in an atom) and the complex (the jaguar prowling its jungle environment). 25,000 first printing.

From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers, and other complex adaptive systems. Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann offers a uniquely personal and unifying vision of the relationship between the ...(展开全部)