The vicissitudes of the leading members of the newly propertied Forsyte family are followed in this captivating series set at the turn of the century. London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered--gloves, waistcoats, feathers, and frocks--to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family is intrigued but wary of this stranger ...(展开全部)

INCLUDED ON MORE THAN TEN BEST OF THE YEAR LISTS, INCLUDING THE GUARDIAN, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, SALON, AMAZON, AND THE WASHINGTON POST! "Modan delights in bringing the subtlest emotional shadings to vivid and often comical life on the page...[The Property is a] wryly funny and ultimately wrenching graphic novel." -NPR The award-winning author of Exit Wounds returns with a story ab...(展开全部)

露图·莫丹生于1966 年，是一名以色列插画师和漫画家，代表作有《致命伤痛》（Exit Wounds）、《遗产》，她还是以色列漫画集团阿克图斯（Actus Comics）的联合创始人，这个创建于1995年的出版机构，由包含莫丹在内的五名以色列艺术家创办。阿克图 斯所出版的图书，多次获得包括安古兰漫画奖在内的多项国际大奖，在以色列颇有影响力。 来兹，真名齐则优，毕业于昆士兰大学翻译专业，现为华北理工大学英语教师，酷爱漫画，长期活跃于欧美漫画界，通过欧美漫画吧、微博等平台介绍、推广漫画，并从事漫画的翻译工作。

INCLUDED ON MORE THAN TEN BEST OF THE YEAR LISTS, INCLUDING THE GUARDIAN, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, SALON, AMAZON, AND THE WASHINGTON POST! "Modan delights in bringing the subtlest emotional shadings to vivid and often comical life on the page...[The Property is a] wryly funny and ultimately wrenching graphic novel." -NPR The award-winning author of Exit Wounds returns with a story ab...(展开全部)

露图·莫丹生于1966 年，是一名以色列插画师和漫画家，代表作有《致命伤痛》（Exit Wounds）、《遗产》，她还是以色列漫画集团阿克图斯（Actus Comics）的联合创始人，这个创建于1995年的出版机构，由包含莫丹在内的五名以色列艺术家创办。阿克图 斯所出版的图书，多次获得包括安古兰漫画奖在内的多项国际大奖，在以色列颇有影响力。 来兹，真名齐则优，毕业于昆士兰大学翻译专业，现为华北理工大学英语教师，酷爱漫画，长期活跃于欧美漫画界，通过欧美漫画吧、微博等平台介绍、推广漫画，并从事漫画的翻译工作。

The 'City of God' or the 'City of Man'? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago - and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human au...(展开全部)

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined...(展开全部)

1. "Lower than the Angels" (evolution of man from ape to 400,000 years ago) 2. "The Harvest of the Seasons" (agriculture and the first settlements) 3. "The Grain in the Stone" (tools, early human migration) 4. "The Hidden Structure" (fire, metals and alchemy) 5. "Music of the Spheres" (the language of numbers) 6. "The Starry Messenger" (Galileo's universe) 7. "The Majestic Cloc...(展开全部)

Dr. Bronowski's classic history of humankind. Dr. Jacob Bronowski's groundbreaking book The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through its understanding of science. First published in 1973, it is considered one of the first works of "popular science", illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his ...(展开全部)

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.