珍妮弗·塞拉瓦洛（Jennifer Serravallo），儿童读写研究者、《纽约时报》畅销书作家。早期以纽约公立学校教师的身份开始自己的教育生涯，后加入哥伦比亚大学教育学院读写项目（Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University），担任课程开发者和高级研究员，并在该学院及瓦萨学院（Vassar College）教授多门与儿童文学、城市教育改革相关的本科课程及研究生课程。目前致力于儿童读写教育与研究，并著有多本相关领域的畅销图书，其中包括《美国学生阅读技能训练》《美国学生写作技能训练》《与读者交流》等。

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them — from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspec...(展开全部)

This is a concise and authoritative guide to Virginia Woolf's classic text "To the Lighthouse" (1927), including a brief plot summary and introduction to characters and a guide to critical reception. "To the Lighthouse" is one of Virginia Woolf's most widely read and commonly studied novels. Offering an authoritative, up-to-date guide for students, this guide introduces its con...(展开全部)

Becky D. Alexander has lived in Cambridge, Ontario all her life. She was raised in a rural setting on the edge of Hespeler. Teaching was her passion and she held several positions with the Waterloo Regional District School Board until her retirement in 2000. An award winning, internationally published poet, Becky decided she wanted to promote local writers and established a sma...(展开全部)

Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and disarmingly unexpected: a singing jackrabbit, the seductive Nanzia Nunzio. They also spoke - and still speak - to contemporary con...(展开全部)

A Guide to Developing Your Own Java Servlet Container

Reflecting the continuing change and development in modern literacy theory, the key features of this book includes its clarity, brevity, equal coverage of the main literary theories and useful bibliographies of further reading. Literature students will find its clearly defined sections easy to navigate and whilst avoiding over-simplification, it makes a complex subject accessi...(展开全部)

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend. Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambit...(展开全部)

This comprehensive cat care guide from the star of the hit Animal Planet show "My Cat from Hell," Jackson Galaxy, shows us how to eliminate feline behavioral problems by understanding cats' instinctive behavior. Cat Mojo is the confidence that cats exhibit when they are at ease in their environment and in touch with their natural instincts—to hunt, catch, kill, eat, groom, and ...(展开全部)

Many books attempt to teach the elements of good non-fiction writing, but only one does it in the gentle, humorous way of famous writing coach Paula LaRocque. LaRocque's new book is the result of a lifetime spent as a journalist and writing educator. This book contains 25 chapters in three sections. The first section spells out a dozen essential guidelines to good writing, from...(展开全部)