In 1918, right after the Russian Revolution, the highly gifted student Lazarus Lindt comes to Moscow carrying with him nothing but lice and a notebook. The Women of Lazarus tells a big part of Lazarus' life story, following three important women in it: his mentor's wife, his own young wife and their granddaughter. Set against the background of the twentieth century, Moscow and ...(展开全部)

In 1918, right after the Russian Revolution, the highly gifted student Lazarus Lindt comes to Moscow carrying with him nothing but lice and a notebook. The Women of Lazarus tells a big part of Lazarus' life story, following three important women in it: his mentor's wife, his own young wife and their granddaughter. Set against the background of the twentieth century, Moscow and ...(展开全部)

In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring. Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed determines that h...(展开全部)

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glim...(展开全部)

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet – it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunte...(展开全部)

[作者&主编简介] 积极心理学之父 马丁•塞利格曼  美国心理学家，“积极心理学之父”。  1998年，以最高票数当选美国心理协会（APA）主席。曾获美国心理协会两项大奖——威廉姆斯奖和詹姆斯卡特奖。  从“习得性无助”的研究中走出来，不再只关注人性黑暗、脆弱与痛苦的一面，发出了“积极心理学”的召唤——帮助普通人增加幸福感。 中国教育风云人物 孙云晓  中国具有广泛影响力的少年儿童研究学者、教育家、作家。  中国青少年研究中心研究员、副主任，中国家庭教育学会常务理事，《少年儿童研究》杂志总编辑，北京师范大学兼职教授。  曾被国务院表彰为有突出贡献的教育科学研究专家，被中国教育电视台等机构评为“中国教育风云人物”，  被中国家庭生活刊物发行量第一的《家庭》期刊集团等机构评为“推动中国家庭文明建设十大致敬人物”等等。

This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Dap...(展开全部)

One dark night the Gruffalo's Child disobeys her father's warnings and ventures out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn't really exist ...does he? This is the perfect companion to "The Gruffalo Big Book". It includes bonus activities ideal for classroom use.

One night the Gruffalo's child goes into the woods to find the Big Bad Mouse, a creature her father met years ago. After much searching, the child stumbles upon a little mouse . . . and decides to eat him. Suddenly a terrible shadow falls on the ground. Could it be the Big Bad Mouse? Or maybe the little mouse is bigger and badder than the Gruffalo's child thinks. Like ...(展开全部)

一部关于被指控的女巫们令人震撼的幽灵故事——一本施展巫术的书——出自备受赞誉的《明日雇员停摆事件》(The Employees) 和《我的工作》(My Work) 的作者之手。 在十七世纪的丹麦，贵族女子克里斯坦泽·克鲁考，一位未婚女性，被指控施行巫术。她和其他几名女性被谣传为魔鬼附身——魔鬼以一个高大无头男子的形态出现在她们面前，赋予她们黑暗力量：她们能偷走人们的幸福，她们行过不敬神的邪行，她们能引发瘟疫或死亡。她们都面临着被处以火刑的危险。 《蜡孩》由克里斯坦泽·克鲁考制作的蜡像娃娃讲述，是一部令人不安的恐怖故事，探讨了残酷与权力、自然与巫术，背景设定在前现代欧洲的脆弱社群中。 《蜡孩》基于十七世纪发生在日德兰半岛北部的一系列真实巫术审判案件，研究深入，浸透着令人身临其境、充满氛围感的细节。奥尔加·拉文不仅以其华丽的叙事和令人惊异的丰沛想象力，还...(展开全部)