One of Bookpage's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join "America’s funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that br...(展开全部)

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本书是一部严肃的研究原始信仰和巫术活动的科学著作，是一部在世界范围内研究古老习俗极其有关信仰、观念的科学巨著，是闻名遐迩的学术必读著作，由于该书搜集了丰富的人类学资料，被称为人类学的百科全书。“金枝”是从古罗马作家所叙述的神话传说中转引而来的。本书由一早已不复存在的古老习俗而引起的，作者对此进行了全面深入的分析、研究和诠释。

D.A. Doug Selby was in trouble again. An enticing redhead had been murdered; the county newspaper, The Blade, was after his neck; he had an unsolved jewellery theft on his hands and that sly, unscrupulous attorney A.B. Carr was running circles around him.Selby knew that somehow or other all four of his troubles were tied up in one explosive bundle. But how could he open the bun...(展开全部)

In the years before the Second World War, a man throws a statue of the crucified Christ over a waterfall. Later, in Hitler's trenches, he loses his arms to an enemy grenade. The blasphemer, screaming in agony, presided over by Satan, who pours a cup of gall into his open mouth, is portrayed amid the flames of Hell in a painting by the parish priest that is mounted on a calvary ...(展开全部)

When the moon disappears from the sky, the world is turned upside down, and artificial moons only help for a little while. In the meantime, one boy has found the real moon, and slowly helps him heal. They become inseparable companions, but when the world needs the moon to return home, the boy (reluctantly at first) helps the moon remember how to find his way back into the night...(展开全部)

Nau cannot remember a time when she was not one with the world around her: with the fast breeze, the green grass, the high clouds, and the endless blue sky. But her greatest joy is to descend from her little spit of land to the sea, where the whales gather each morning, gaily spouting rainbows. Then, one day, she finds a man in the mist where a whale should be: Reu, who has tak...(展开全部)

Where does the wind go when it stops? When a little boy asks this question at the end of a happy day, his mother explains that the wind does not stop-it blows away to make the trees dance somewhere else. Reassuringly, she tells him that nothing ever ends, it simply begins in another place or in another way. Rain goes back into the clouds to create new storms, waves fold back...(展开全部)

At the end of a happy day, a little boy asks, Why does the day have to end? His mother points to the pale sliver of moon high in the darkening sky and tells him that the day must end so the night can begin. But where does the sun go when the day ends? the little boy asks. The day doesn't end, explains his mother, it begins somewhere else.

【作家简介】 夏洛特·左罗托夫（Charlotte Zolotow），于1915年生于美国维吉尼亚州。自威斯康辛大学毕业后，即在美国的Harper出版社工作。她虽曾因为育儿而中断过工作，但复职以后，即返回出版社，并于1981年担任这家出版社的副社长。其为儿童主编童书前后达三十年之久，是一名杰出的童书编辑兼绘本作家。 夏洛特·左罗托夫的作品数量相当惊人，由她写成的绘本，超过九十本；而与她合作过的画家，则有三十余人，其中，有很多都是美国当代最具代表性的绘本画家。她的成就，也为她赢得无数荣誉。因“对儿童文学有杰出贡献”、“对儿童文学影响深远”，夏洛特·左罗托夫分别于1986年获得明尼苏达大学艾威．可蓝大奖（Irwin Kerlan Award）、1990年南密西西比大学银牌奖及1991年美国图书馆协会图书馆从业人员的一致推崇。此外，以她为名的The Cha...(展开全部)