Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

When Pulp Fiction was released in theaters in 1994, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. The New York Times called it a “triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey,” and thirty-one-year-old Quentin Tarantino, with just three feature films to his name, became a sensation: the next great American director. Nearly twenty years later, those who proclaimed Pulp Fiction an ins...(展开全部)

雅 · 伊瓦什凯维奇（ Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, 1894—1980 )，波兰小说家、诗人、剧作家，代表了二战后波兰文学最高成就。他是跨性别者，曾服役于波兰第三军团，之后加入斯卡曼德尔诗社，二战后长期担任波兰作家协会主席，及议会议员、波兰保卫和平委员 会主席。代表作有诗集《回到欧洲》《另一种生活》，长篇小说《名望与光荣》，戏剧《诺昂之夏》《假面舞会》等。四次获诺贝尔文学奖提名。 译者： 易丽君，1934年生，湖北黄冈人。北京外国语大学教授，博士生导师，长年从事波兰文学翻译及研究。获波兰总统和波兰文化、教育、外交各部部长授予的勋章、功勋章及各种荣誉称号，2018 年获中国翻译协会颁发的“翻译文化终身成就奖”。 裴远颖（1936—2017），江西南昌人。资深外交官，曾任中国驻波兰大使、驻立陶宛大使、驻印度大使。 校者： 袁汉镕，193...(展开全部)

雅 · 伊瓦什凯维奇（ Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, 1894—1980 )，波兰小说家、诗人、剧作家，代表了二战后波兰文学最高成就。他是跨性别者，曾服役于波兰第三军团，之后加入斯卡曼德尔诗社，二战后长期担任波兰作家协会主席，及议会议员、波兰保卫和平委员 会主席。代表作有诗集《回到欧洲》《另一种生活》，长篇小说《名望与光荣》，戏剧《诺昂之夏》《假面舞会》等。四次获诺贝尔文学奖提名。 译者： 易丽君，1934年生，湖北黄冈人。北京外国语大学教授，博士生导师，长年从事波兰文学翻译及研究。获波兰总统和波兰文化、教育、外交各部部长授予的勋章、功勋章及各种荣誉称号，2018 年获中国翻译协会颁发的“翻译文化终身成就奖”。 裴远颖（1936—2017），江西南昌人。资深外交官，曾任中国驻波兰大使、驻立陶宛大使、驻印度大使。 校者： 袁汉镕，193...(展开全部)

Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change wha...(展开全部)

The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable cast of characters into a sweeping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action, The Emperor of All Maladies, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. One of New Jersey’s seemingly innumer...(展开全部)

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and...(展开全部)

The true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and has been hailed by The New York Times as "a new classic of science reporting." Now available in paperback with a new afterword by acclaimed author Dan Fagin, the book masterfully blends hard-hitting investigative journalism, scientific discovery, and unforgettable characte...(展开全部)

Book Description Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as “spellbinding” by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymou...(展开全部)

"I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Although there was a certain glamour to anorexics, I didn't want to be one. I just wanted to excel in dieting. And weighing in at 80 pounds on 300 calories a day, I was the best little dieter there ever was." In scalding prose, Portia de Rossi reveals the pain and ill...(展开全部)