西布莉·杨（Cybèle Young） /著·绘 国际著名艺术家西布莉·杨创作过一系列童书作品。她的作品曾荣获加拿大总督奖等多个奖项，并获得过《纽约时报》《科克斯书评》《学校图书馆杂志》等著名报刊杂志的极高评价。《女王的影子》是西布莉在科普题材方面的首次尝试，这部作品再次展现出她卓越的洞察力与敏锐的好奇心。 她和丈夫及两个孩子一起居住在加拿大安大略省的多伦多市。

A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love.It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight," the ...(展开全部)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n He Shook hands with me: "Well, there you are, on your own, appointed officially under my responsibility." He was actually walking with me to the door. What a distance off it seemed I moved like ...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。

约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Einstein’s Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, putting Einstein’s theory of relativity to its ultimate test and helping to answer our deepest questions about space, time, the origins of the universe, and the nature of reality Photographing a black hole sounds impossible, ...(展开全部)

乔恩·戈登（JON GORDON）作家和演说家，他激励了全世界数百万读者。乔恩著有20本书，包括8本畅销书:《活力巴士》、《木匠》、《训练营》、《赢在更衣室》、《积极领导的力量》、《积极团队的力量》、《咖啡豆》、《保持积极性》。他致力于培养积极有活力的领导者、组织和团队。 译者： 于洪鉴，男，23岁，中共党员。 北京第二外国语学院外国语言学及应用语言学硕士。曾参与外语教学与研究出版社教材编辑校对工作。参与英美短视频，电视剧电影翻译，字幕校对工作，翻译量达一万五千余条。曾于翻译公司参与文书翻译，协助编译工作。

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)