This is the compelling story of the life of internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso, Yo-Yo Ma, from the cradle to his entering Harvard University at the age of seventeen. It is told by his mother and written by Dr. John A. Rallo.</P> Written in fluent, warm and conversational style, the book highlights the events in the development of this young music talent and is enriched...(展开全部)

- Introduces in a clear and concise way the most important basic findings and procedures of evolutionary biology - Looks at the evidence for evolution, eg the fossil record, the distribution of species, the similarities and differences between organisms - A section at the end looks at the seemingly difficult problems for the theory of evolution - Explains adaptation and natural...(展开全部)

Exploring the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity, and tracing its course over two millennia, Linda Woodhead provides a fresh, lively, and candid portrait of Christianity's past and present. Addressing topics including the competition for power between different forms of Christianity, the churches' use of power, and its struggles with modernity, this new editi...(展开全部)

- Introduces in a clear and concise way the most important basic findings and procedures of evolutionary biology - Looks at the evidence for evolution, eg the fossil record, the distribution of species, the similarities and differences between organisms - A section at the end looks at the seemingly difficult problems for the theory of evolution - Explains adaptation and natural...(展开全部)

Dorothy H. Crawford was professor of medical microbiology at the University of Edinburgh from 1997-2010 and assistant principal for public understanding of medicine from 2005-2011. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001 and received an OBE for services to medicine and higher education in 2005. She is the author of...(展开全部)

La protagonista de esta historia, una mujer latinoamericana que enseña noruego a inmigrantes, está por llegar al límite; la soledad la ha llevado a pocos pasos del completo abandono de sí. Queriendo evitar lo peor, su mejor amigo decide llevarla consigo a su natal Rumanía en un viaje que le resulta imposible postergar. Ahí, entre moles de concreto y anuncios de neón, ven desvan...(展开全部)

La protagonista de esta historia, una mujer latinoamericana que enseña noruego a inmigrantes, está por llegar al límite; la soledad la ha llevado a pocos pasos del completo abandono de sí. Queriendo evitar lo peor, su mejor amigo decide llevarla consigo a su natal Rumanía en un viaje que le resulta imposible postergar. Ahí, entre moles de concreto y anuncios de neón, ven desvan...(展开全部)

Synopsis To escape the death of his son and the death-throes of his marriage, Edwin Fisher retreats - to a place where he had once known the unqualified happiness of childhood. But as painful memories rise unbidden and uncontrolled, Edwin must confront each in turn and realise that without a past there can be no future.

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes reader...(展开全部)