Tall, soft-spoken Natsume used to work with troubled kids at a reformatory but resigned mid-career to become a police detective. Those who’ve known him wonder why the gentlest of men, whose vocation had been to have faith in humans, now doubts them professionally. The truths of his path unfold over seven carefully crafted chapters, each of which stands on its own as a short sto...(展开全部)

The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime one Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortunately, the robbers meet their match in brave Officer Pugh who leaps into action and arrests the villains - all except Grandma Swagg who manages to get away.

The first ever illustrated paperback of part two of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring 16 colour paintings by Alan Lee.

A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. FROM THE PREFACE: It is now widely recognised that great changes must be made in the American way of...(展开全部)

伯勒斯·弗雷德里克·斯金纳（Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1904-1990）是20世纪后半叶最卓越、最著名的心理学家之一。他于1904年3月20日出生在宾夕法尼亚州萨斯奎汉纳的一个中产阶级家庭。在斯金纳晚年回忆中，父母对其管教严格。父亲假期曾带他参观乡下的监狱，以体会行为不当会产生怎样的后果。在读中学时，他擅长文学，但科学成绩不佳。1922年，斯金纳进入汉密尔顿学院学习文学。大学毕业后，他投身于文学事业，但结果一事无成，还差一点因精神问题去看心理医生。后因受巴甫洛夫（Ivan Petrovich Pavlov）和华生（John Broadus Watson）等人著作的影响，决定转向行为主义心理学。他曾经指出，其科学生涯的一项指导原则就是巴甫洛夫的一句简单格言，即如果你控制了你的环境，你就会看到秩序。斯金纳于1928年进入哈佛大...(展开全部)

Beauty is in the feet of the beholder.-Jonathan williams

威廉•利普金德（William Lipkind），1904年出生于美国纽约，1937年毕业于哥伦比亚大学，以写作和插画上的成就享誉美国。在从事创作前，他还是个卓有成就的人类学家。 尼古拉斯•莫尔德维诺夫（Nicholas Mordvinoff），1911年出生于俄罗斯圣彼得堡，后移居法国，毕业于巴黎大学，在南太平洋学习了多年绘画，形成独特的创作风格。来到美国后，与作家威廉•利普金德开始了长期合作关系。1951年，两人的作品《两个小红》获得了凯迪克银奖，第二年，他们又凭《小机灵和小迷瞪》获得了凯迪克金奖。

William Trevor's astonishing range as a writer--his humor, subtlety, and compassionate grasp of human behavior--is fully demonstrated in these two short novels. In Reading Turgenev, a lonely country girl escapes her loveless marriage in the arms of a bookish young man. In My House in Umbria, a former madam befriends the other survivors of a terrorist bombing with surprising res...(展开全部)

A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese gi...(展开全部)

A field of strawberries in Kent ...And sitting in it two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they eye each other warily. There are the Poles Tomasz and Yola, two Chinese girls and Emanuel from Malawi. They're all here to pick strawberries in England...(展开全部)