From Publishers Weekly Once again O'Dell turns to the Native American for his subject， and in this novel he brings to life the mysterious Shoshone girl Sacagawea， interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark. Told from Sacagawea's point of view ，this is an honest， unsparing account of Indian life and the approaching whites. From the beginning， Sacagawea is calm and practical but ...(展开全部)

In this redesigned edition of Scott O'Dell's classic novel, a young Native American woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

In his previous books, Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain and mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders. Recently, however, he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice, and in light of recent neuroscientific evidence and theories. The River of Consciousness ...(展开全部)

◎著者 奥利弗・萨克斯，1933年出生于英国伦敦，2015年病逝于纽约。医学博士，英国皇家内科医师学会会员（FRCP），曾经是纽约大学医学院的神经内科学教授，被《纽约时报》誉为“医学界的桂冠诗人”。他仔细收集过多种神经系统异常案例，以丰富的临床经验为基础，著有《错把妻子当 帽子》《脑袋里装了2000出歌剧的人》《火星上的人类学家》等畅销书籍。其中，描述了20世纪初嗜睡性脑炎患者的《苏醒》一书启发了电影《无语问苍天》，该片曾获奥斯卡最佳影片提名。萨克斯博士曾长期为《纽约客》和《纽约书评》撰稿。 ◎译者 陈晓菲，人类学硕士，文学和精神分析爱好者。

The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human. (From Amazon)

Bunny Rabbit has lost her toy duck! So Bunny and her brothers jump in their boat and head down the river in search of Little Duck. Their journey takes them from the mountaintop to the open sea, but there are many other adventures for you to follow along the way. Why are the Speedy Pigs in such a hurry? What will Laura Lamb catch on her fishing line? And what kind of mischief wi...(展开全部)

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel ref...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In the "brilliant novel" ( The New York Times ) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between ...(展开全部)

A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us. The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson 'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'One of the wittiest writers around today' ...(展开全部)