This volume presents a collection of Martine Francke's photographs - her own favourites - grouped within themes of childhood, the theatre, the Orient, old age, portraits, museums and landscapes. In creating her pictures, which range from portraits of Michel Foucault and Marc Chagall, Franck sees the camera as "a frontier...that one is constantly breaking down so as to get close...(展开全部)

梅琳达·弗朗奇·盖茨 (Melinda French Gates) 罕见地从一些她人生中的关键时刻中汲取灵感，从以前未曾讲述的故事中汲取灵感，为应对转变提供新的视角。 “如果没有经历各种转变，你就不会活到我这个年纪。有些转变是你欣然接受的，有些是你从未预料到的。有些是你希望的，有些是你竭尽全力争取的。” – 梅琳达·弗朗奇·盖茨 转变是我们走出熟悉的环境，进入新环境的时刻——对许多人来说，这个空间被困惑、恐惧和犹豫不决所笼罩。《第二天》陪伴读者穿越这段空间，指导他们如何充分利用结束和新开始之间的时间，以及如何在你脚下的大地发生变化时继续前进。 在这本书中，梅琳达将首次以印刷形式回顾自己人生中一些重要的转变，包括成为父母、一位亲密朋友的去世以及她离开盖茨基金会。她讲述的故事阐明了摆脱完美主义束缚、帮助朋友渡过危机、拥抱不确定性等普遍教训。 我们每个人，...(展开全部)

梅琳达·弗朗奇·盖茨 (Melinda French Gates) 罕见地从一些她人生中的关键时刻中汲取灵感，从以前未曾讲述的故事中汲取灵感，为应对转变提供新的视角。 “如果没有经历各种转变，你就不会活到我这个年纪。有些转变是你欣然接受的，有些是你从未预料到的。有些是你希望的，有些是你竭尽全力争取的。” – 梅琳达·弗朗奇·盖茨 转变是我们走出熟悉的环境，进入新环境的时刻——对许多人来说，这个空间被困惑、恐惧和犹豫不决所笼罩。《第二天》陪伴读者穿越这段空间，指导他们如何充分利用结束和新开始之间的时间，以及如何在你脚下的大地发生变化时继续前进。 在这本书中，梅琳达将首次以印刷形式回顾自己人生中一些重要的转变，包括成为父母、一位亲密朋友的去世以及她离开盖茨基金会。她讲述的故事阐明了摆脱完美主义束缚、帮助朋友渡过危机、拥抱不确定性等普遍教训。 我们每个人，...(展开全部)

"In this book sparkling with atmosphere, a small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day. The brief, vividly expressed text points out his new awareness."--The Horn Book. A Caldecott Honor Book. Full color.

The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as aa major work of arta by "The Wall Street Journal," his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago Worldas Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). With a phantasmagoria of characters...(展开全部)

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the revolution, Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one...(展开全部)

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as the type that loses the girl) and in a fina...(展开全部)

Snow is falling. All the animals are fast asleep in their animal homes. Slowly they awake. They open their eyes and sniff. They run. And in the middle of the forest they find a bright yellow flower growing in the snow--and they dance and laugh with joy at this first sign of spring.

Snow is falling. All the animals are fast asleep in their animal homes. They awake. They open their eyes. They sniff. They run. What will they find? 1950 Caldecott Honor Book