Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller uses his evocative powers and the insight gained by four years in the forests of the Wolong and Tangjiahe panda reserves to document the pli...(展开全部)

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

在线阅读本书 "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled " The Last Lecture ." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was o...(展开全部)

Chocolate chippers, lemon bars, madeleines, brownies, shortbread, thumbprints, rugelach, biscotti, mandelbrot, and fortune cookies we all love them. We love them even better when they are home-baked. The ultimate comfort food, fresh-baked cookies offer instant reassurance, consolation, and community. One of the reasons we hesitate to bake cookies is that all too frequentl...(展开全部)

"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago Tribune Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly written history paints a magnifice...(展开全部)

When I was born, there were a million elephants roaming Africa. By the time my daughter Charlotte was born in 2015, the numbers of savannah elephants had crashed to just 350,000. At the current pace of illegal poaching, when Charlotte turns twenty-five the African elephant could be gone from the wild. HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge An elephant is killed in Africa every...(展开全部)

Jennet is the daughter of the Witchfinder of Mercia and East Anglia. Whilst her father roams the countryside in search of heretics, Jennet is left behind to be schooled by her aunt Isobel in the New Philosophy principally expounded by Isaac Newton. But her aunt's style of scientific enquiry soon attracts the attention of the witchfinders. To save her aunt, Jennet travels to Cam...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 詹姆斯·莫罗（James Morrow）美国作家，星云奖最佳短篇小说和最佳中篇小说奖得主，并两度摘得世界奇幻奖最佳长篇小说奖。 莫罗被公认为科幻界最独树一帜的作家，他敢于挑战宏大题材，从不惧怕打破常规，其作品注重剖析宗教、人文主义、无神论等话题，充满奇幻元 素。但和一般奇幻作家不同的是，莫罗为这些元素设定了合理的科学解释，从而在“科幻”与“奇幻”之间达到了微妙的平衡。 莫罗自称为一名“科学人文主义者”“迷惑的朝圣者”“启蒙运动之子”，目前已出版十部长篇小说、三部中篇小说及若干短篇故事集。他历时九年写出《最后的猎巫人》这部气势恢宏的历史小说。 ◆作者曾获奖项 1988年 星云奖·最佳短篇小说奖 1991年 世界奇幻奖·最佳长篇小说奖 1992年 星云奖·最佳中长篇小说奖 1995年 世界奇幻奖·最佳长篇小说奖 2005年 乌托邦终身成就奖...(展开全部)