“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter’s hand and smile back: but the second Mrs Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I’ll do anything to keep it that way… I used to clean other people’s h...(展开全部)

China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. ‘China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to ‘buy the world'. Is there any truth to...(展开全部)

Who is the world for? asks the baby bear in her winter cave and the lion cub on his grassy plain and the baby hippo in the slow brown river. All over the world - in deep roomy seas, on high, green trees, in ice and snow - baby animals ask their parents this question. In a house in the city, the boy asks his father too - receiving the same emphatic proclamation in reply, The wor...(展开全部)

西蒙·詹姆斯（Simon James ），英国知名图画书作家。大学主修平面设计，做过14 份不同的工作，包括警察、农夫，以及美术老师等。詹姆斯的插画，线条自由轻巧，用色朴拙淡雅。明朗的水彩搭配余味十足的故事，散发出柔美耀眼的光芒。善于将人与人之间或是人与自然环境的互动关系融入儿童故事中。代表作包括《赏鸟人》、 dear greenpeace，以及 leon and bob。而这本《小步走路》内容虽然平实，但意涵丰厚，相信可以激发孩子的自信心与勇气。

Thirty years after the publication of The Female Eunuch , Germaine Greer is back with the sequel she vowed never to write. "A marvelous performance--. No feminist writer can match her for eloquence or energy; none makes [us] laugh the way she does."-- The Washington Post In this thoroughly engaging new book, the fervent, rollicking, straight-shooting Greer, is, as ever, "th...(展开全部)

Let's face it--all birds are fascinating, wonderful, idiotic jerks--no matter where in the world they reside. Following in the footsteps of the bestselling book The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, this hilarious sequel ventures beyond to identify the stupidest birds around the world. Featuring birds from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, au...(展开全部)

托马斯·弗里德曼是《纽约时报》的专栏作家，曾三次赢得普利策奖。在其1999年出版的经典著作《了解全球化：凌志汽车与橄榄树》当中，他提出了新科技和全球化与传统文化的联系，引发了西方学界一场关于全球化问题的大争论。他认为现在的社会必定抵挡不了全球化的浪潮，全球化的趋势是不可阻挡的。在《世界是平的：21世纪简史》出版之前，他已经是美国公认最有影响力的新闻工作者。

The story of punk, the world's most shocking rock genre, charting its birth in the mid '70s, its '78-79 heyday, the '80s punk new wave, and its continuing popularity today. Includes interviews and photographs originally published in Mojo magazine, together with new specially photographed spreads on memorabilia. Produced in Association with MOJO magazine. Features three decade...(展开全部)

If you've ever found yourself transfixed by a Renaissance painting, fascinated by an Inca textile, or filled with wonder by an exquisite piece of Ming porcelain, this is the book for you. Venture inside its pages and discover exactly what the great artistic periods and movements of the world were all about. Written by an experienced international team of artists, art historians...(展开全部)