A fable that will inspire readers to think about their "personal reason for being" and that demonstrates allegorically a powerful way to approach life In a small diner at a location so remote that it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John-a man in a hurry-is at a literal and figurative crossroads. Intent only on refueling before moving along on his road trip, Jo...(展开全部)

In this impassioned critique of America's growing disengagement from civic life and ideals, Drum Major Institute Executive Director Andrea Batista Schlesinger dissects the forcible erosion of our youngest generation's capacity for inquiry and provides recommendations.

迈克尔·莫尔普戈(1943--)，英国当代著名作家，尤以在儿童文学方面的创作成就而蜚声英国文坛，多次摘得童书奖项，其中包括于2000年获得的英国儿童文学桂冠奖。 莫尔普戈自1975年开始发表小说，截止目前已出版九十多部作品，且被翻译成二十多种文字。 《健介的王国》是其创作的一部寓意深刻的儿童历险小说，享有当代版《鲁滨孙飘流记》的盛誉。该书曾于2000击败《哈利·波特与麾法石》，荣获英国惟一由孩子们投票选出的童书奖。

Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers of the Western canon. Here - spanning more than two millennia, from antiquity to postmodernis...(展开全部)

In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but because it structures our politics. He maintains that politicians and political parties - not Supreme Court decisions - are the true e...(展开全部)

《宪法为何重要》一书作者是哈佛大学法学院威廉•尼伦威尔法学教授马克·图什内特（Mark Tushnet），他的代表作还有：《美国宪法：语境分析》、《弱法院和强权利：比较宪法中的司法审查和社会福利权》、《新宪法秩序》和《让宪法远离法院》等。

北极熊cafe漫画 ，北极熊经营的时尚Cafe经常都客似云来。他有个不为人知的乐趣，那便是跟熟客熊猫兄一起唱双簧说无聊笑话。在平静而安详的日子中，每天都有新鲜事在北极熊身边发生...字字珠玑的动物漫板搞笑漫画登场

A rollicking investigation of cause and effect by the Caldecott medalist. The tale of the chicken and Desperate Dan, a bandit, told in beautiful full-color pictures and leavened by the trademark wit of David Macaulay.

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, "You can make philosophy out of this cocktail!" From this moment of inspiration, Sartre wil...(展开全部)

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, "You can make philosophy out of this cocktail!" From this moment of inspiration, Sartre wil...(展开全部)