In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and...(展开全部)

When the soldiers return from the Great War in 1918, a memorial tree is planted . . . 'Lest We Forget'. But generations later, what do those who pause in the shadows of the tree's immense branches remember? Years on, the tree has grown to be huge and unruly, dislodging the statue next to it and creating a traffic hazard in what is now a much larger, busier town. A decision is m...(展开全部)

Memorial is a story about a tree planted beside a war memorial monument, in a small country town by returned servicemen. Years on, the tree has grown to be huge and unruly, dislodging the statue next to it and creating a traffic hazard in what is now a much larger, busier town. A decision is made by a local council to cut the tree down. Memorial won an Honour Book award in the ...(展开全部)

Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years -- good years -- but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike ...(展开全部)

In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and...(展开全部)

Matthew Arnold praised the "Iliad" for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since - but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story, and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on...(展开全部)

劳拉·瓦卡罗·希格 美国杰出插画家。其图画书作品因简洁+创意而深受好评，并擅长使用翻翻书、洞洞书的技巧带给读者一次次的视觉惊喜。从纽约州威斯特斯特的美术设计专业毕业后，来到纽约从事动画、艺术创作，以及网络电视编辑。连续多年为NBC和ABC制作节目开场和花絮，并因一开场动画为NBC特别节目赢得艾美奖。 她从小就梦想成为艺术家，两岁开始画画，至今笔耕不辍，是美国《纽约时报》的畅销书作者。2001年至今出版了10余册绘本，屡获美国各项图画书大奖——包括2008凯迪克银牌奖（《先有蛋》）、2007《纽约时报》最佳图画书奖（《先有蛋》）、2007《波士顿环球报》/《号角书》最佳图画书奖（《狗狗和熊熊》）等。 目前，劳拉与家人定居在纽约州长岛。家中还有一个特别的成员——狗狗库伯，它可是《狗狗和熊熊》里面的狗狗原型呢。

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, died in 1984. Dirac's college, St John's of Cambridge, generously endowed annual lectures to be held at Cambridge University in his memory. This volume contains a much expanded version of the 1994 Dirac Lecture by Nobel Laureate Pierre Gilles de Gennes. The book presents an impressionistic tour ...(展开全部)