Where does the wind go when it stops? When a little boy asks this question at the end of a happy day, his mother explains that the wind does not stop-it blows away to make the trees dance somewhere else. Reassuringly, she tells him that nothing ever ends, it simply begins in another place or in another way. Rain goes back into the clouds to create new storms, waves fold back...(展开全部)

At the end of a happy day, a little boy asks, Why does the day have to end? His mother points to the pale sliver of moon high in the darkening sky and tells him that the day must end so the night can begin. But where does the sun go when the day ends? the little boy asks. The day doesn't end, explains his mother, it begins somewhere else.

【作家简介】 夏洛特·左罗托夫（Charlotte Zolotow），于1915年生于美国维吉尼亚州。自威斯康辛大学毕业后，即在美国的Harper出版社工作。她虽曾因为育儿而中断过工作，但复职以后，即返回出版社，并于1981年担任这家出版社的副社长。其为儿童主编童书前后达三十年之久，是一名杰出的童书编辑兼绘本作家。 夏洛特·左罗托夫的作品数量相当惊人，由她写成的绘本，超过九十本；而与她合作过的画家，则有三十余人，其中，有很多都是美国当代最具代表性的绘本画家。她的成就，也为她赢得无数荣誉。因“对儿童文学有杰出贡献”、“对儿童文学影响深远”，夏洛特·左罗托夫分别于1986年获得明尼苏达大学艾威．可蓝大奖（Irwin Kerlan Award）、1990年南密西西比大学银牌奖及1991年美国图书馆协会图书馆从业人员的一致推崇。此外，以她为名的The Cha...(展开全部)

An in-depth stylistic examination and detailed physical analysis of the famed tenth-century "Riverbank, as well as other Chinese old master paintings.

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)

Emilio Renzi, literary alter ego of legendary Argentine author Ricardo Piglia, returns in The Way Out, an academic thriller that relentlessly questions the lengths we go to hide our own truths and to uncover the secrets of others. In the mid 1990s Emilio Renzi leaves behind his unstable life in Argentina to take a visiting position at a prestigious university in New Jersey. Set...(展开全部)

The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit th...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description With more than 10 million iPods sold to date, an unprecedented 250 percent stock value increase in just one year, and a net income increase of 530 percent, Apple has skyrocketed to dizzying heights of success. But the ride has not always been smooth, and the company’s legendary cofounder, Steve Jobs, has seen it all. From its early unveiling of the un...(展开全部)

This book assumes that the reader is already familiar with the subject matter. Using many code samples it focuses on "how-to use Ruby" for specific applications, either as a stand-alone language, or in conjunction with other languages. It covers simple data tasks, manipulating structured data, external data manipulation, user interfaces, handling threads, system programming, ne...(展开全部)

The Courage Way Leading and Living with Integrity Leadership can be exhausting, lonely, frustrating, disappointing, and downright discouraging. You have to make good decisions while balancing inevitable tensions and knowing when to take risks.