To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbolt's journall--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship. An instant maritime classic, and one of Goldi...(展开全部)

The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these vi...(展开全部)

Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical roots while revealing its particular relevance to contemporary problems. She rejects the traditional picture of Kant's ethics a...(展开全部)

Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical roots while revealing its particular relevance to contemporary problems. She rejects the traditional picture of Kant's ethics a...(展开全部)

Having drawn a startlingly prescient portrait of the Bosnian catastrophe in his bestseller, Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now travels more widely and ambitiously. In this gritty tour de force of travel writing and political reportage, he covers an arc from West Africa to Southeast Asia, across a world in which nation-states are giving way to warring nationalities and where metas...(展开全部)

约翰·伯宁罕 1936年生于英国，12岁进入夏山学校就读，20岁进入伦敦中央艺术学院正式习画。他的第一本书《宝儿》（Borka）为他赢得了生平第一个英国图画书最高荣誉——凯特·格林纳威大奖（Kate Greenaway Medal）。从此之后，约翰·伯宁罕每年出版两本书，成为世界知名的图画书创作者，作品更获得“交织着现实与幻想之趣”的最高评价。之后他再度以《和甘伯伯去游河》（Mr. Gumpy’s Outing）拿下第二个凯特·格林纳威大奖，而他的《外公》（Grandpa）和《喂！下车！》（Oi!Get off our Train）已制作成颇受欢迎的动画影片。 《爱德华——世界上最恐怖的男孩》是约翰·伯宁罕创作于2006年的新作。在这本书里面，他继续关注孩子与大人的关系，与他的甘伯伯系列和莎莉系列等作品不同的是，让我们看到大人对孩子态度的改变，爱德华...(展开全部)

约翰·伯宁罕 1936年生于英国，12岁进入夏山学校就读，20岁进入伦敦中央艺术学院正式习画。他的第一本书《宝儿》（Borka）为他赢得了生平第一个英国图画书最高荣誉——凯特·格林纳威大奖（Kate Greenaway Medal）。从此之后，约翰·伯宁罕每年出版两本书，成为世界知名的图画书创作者，作品更获得“交织着现实与幻想之趣”的最高评价。之后他再度以《和甘伯伯去游河》（Mr. Gumpy’s Outing）拿下第二个凯特·格林纳威大奖，而他的《外公》（Grandpa）和《喂！下车！》（Oi!Get off our Train）已制作成颇受欢迎的动画影片。 《爱德华——世界上最恐怖的男孩》是约翰·伯宁罕创作于2006年的新作。在这本书里面，他继续关注孩子与大人的关系，与他的甘伯伯系列和莎莉系列等作品不同的是，让我们看到大人对孩子态度的改变，爱德华...(展开全部)