在线阅读本书 The classic bestselling bookthe subject of a play, a movie, and a songthat tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

在线阅读本书 The classic bestselling bookthe subject of a play, a movie, and a songthat tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

缪丽尔•斯帕克（Muriel Spark，1918-2006） 英国著名女作家，出生在苏格兰爱丁堡，并在此完成学业。曾在两家杂志社担任编辑。斯帕克的创作领域很广，包括中长篇小说、短篇小说、舞台剧、诗歌、儿童作品、传记及文艺批评。获得过包括意大利文学奖、詹姆斯•特艾特•布雷克纪念奖、索尔•泰厄十字奖、英格兰T.S.艾略特奖等在内的多项文学奖。1978年她被选为美国文学艺术学会名誉会员，1988年又被选为法国文学艺术学会会员。 而将缪丽尔•斯帕克与其作品推到了世人面前并引起了广大读者的浓厚兴趣的，正是本书《布罗迪小姐的青春》，小说改编成话剧后轰动了伦敦西区舞台，后又由美国20世纪福克斯公司改编成电影，二十多年未曾间断过上映。

Muriel Spark's classic "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged "Penguin Essentials" edition. 'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life...' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia...(展开全部)

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)

The Clay Sanskrit Library has recently set out to change the scene by making available well-translated dual-language (English and Sanskrit) editions of popular Sanskritic texts for the public. The Buddhist monk Ashva*ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called...(展开全部)

The Nobel Prize winner offers brilliant proof that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a "bee's-eye view" of the most orderly society on Earth.

"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. ...(展开全部)

Harvard Professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson takes readers through time--tracing the processes that create new species, the five cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution over the past 600 million years, and how humans are destroying diversity at a projected rate of 20 percent over the next 30 years. "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence somet...(展开全部)

The Machinery of Life is a journey into the sub-microscopic world of molecular machines. Readers are introduced to the types of molecules built by cells, including proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and polysaccharides; then, in a series of full-color "watercolor" illustrations, which show a portion of a living cell magnified by 1,000,000 times, the reader is guided through the i...(展开全部)