The Gregg family loves hunting, but their eight-year-old neighbor can't stand it. After countless pleas for them to stop are ignored, she has no other choice -- she has to put her magic finger on them. Now the Greggs are a family of birds, and like it or not, they're going to find out how it feels to be on the other end of the gun.

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that p...(展开全部)

One night, Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning the world is shattered and she's forced to leave her childhood home. She is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met. There, she meets Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless; and brooding Uncle Philip, who loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop...(展开全部)

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that p...(展开全部)

Taussig describes how through theatres of ecstasy, composed of fragments of the great story that the State, for the perpetuation of its spiritual authority, needs to tell about itself, these spirits are provided a reservoir of magical powers. Developing concepts of the sacred from Bataille, the post-Surreal College of Sociology, Canetti, Marx, Hobbes and Walter Benjamin, Tauss...(展开全部)

Taussig describes how through theatres of ecstasy, composed of fragments of the great story that the State, for the perpetuation of its spiritual authority, needs to tell about itself, these spirits are provided a reservoir of magical powers. Developing concepts of the sacred from Bataille, the post-Surreal College of Sociology, Canetti, Marx, Hobbes and Walter Benjamin, Tauss...(展开全部)

Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

Part of the best-selling science series ever Filled with interesting illustrations and dialog on information every kid should know about what the earth is made of. Follow the Magic Bus and these favorite characters to a journey inside the earth.

在一片魔法森林里有一棵神奇的高耸入云的魔法树，树上结着各种各样的果实，没错，就是各种各样，我没法准确的告诉你这一秒钟它结的是苹果还是李子或者是梨，因为那些果实总是在变化的。 在魔法树那宽大的有如小径的枝干上还有许许多精巧的小房子，那是小精灵的家。易怒的皮克精、什么名先生、可爱的月亮脸、勤劳的洗太多夫人、漂亮的丝丝小仙女就住在这儿。魔法树最神奇之处远远不在此，而在树的顶端——一直伸展进云层里的顶端——这里有树顶之国，不只一个，是许多个不同的国度。这些国度就像幸运轮盘上的分区，不停地轮换，今天是“随便拿之地”明天也许就是“颠三倒四国”，所以每次从魔法树顶穿过云洞，都是一次崭新的历险。 有一天，三个幸运的小孩儿——乔、贝丝、弗兰妮，爬上魔法树，穿过云洞，开启了他们的“树顶国奇幻之旅”。于是，幸运的我们就可以跟随幸运的他们，一起去见识一下惊险的“冰雪之地”“...(展开全部)