Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahía de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls explore their new home, a neighbor lets them in on a secret: There are ghosts in Bahía de la...(展开全部)

One of Andrew Wyeth's most important paintings, "Wind from the Sea" (1947), is also the artist's first full realization of the window as a recurring subject in his art. Wyeth returned to windows during the course of the next 60 years, producing more than 300 remarkable works that explore both the formal and conceptual richness of the subject. Absent from these spare, elegant, a...(展开全部)

The brilliant second collection of stories from Germany's answer to Zadie Smith. Judith Hermann's first collection, 'The Summer House, Later', sold 250,000 hardbacks in Germany, and was shortlisted for both the IMPAC award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Judith Hermann's first book, 'The Summer House, Later' was described as 'a book about a certain kind of young wom...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored. But, not by the great seventeenth century Dutch philosopher Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. In this book, Dr Damasio draws on ...(展开全部)

Thompson's ( The Paper Bag Prince ) haunting picture book is both serious and witty. The deceptively simple story opens with the death of the young narrator's grandfather, a raffish sailor. Responding to the death, Titanic the parrot says, "Hello, sailor," a contrary comment that sets up the narrator's contrarily successful search for mythical Atlantis. It is all around, Grandf...(展开全部)

Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored. But, not by the great seventeenth century Dutch philosopher Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. In this book, Dr Damasio draws on ...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Looking at pictures can be enjoyable, exciting or moving. Some pictures are easily appreciated at first glance, but others - often the most rewarding - require some explanation before they can be fully understood. This clearly written and enjoyable book is intended both to increase pleasure and stimulate thought and tackles many aspects of looking at paintings. Starting with fa...(展开全部)

安妮拉．亞菲 Aniela Jaffé（1903-1991） 1903年出生於德國柏林猶太家庭，於漢堡大學（University of Hamburg）主修心理學，二戰時為逃避迫害移居瑞士，接受莉蓮．弗雷（Liliane Frey）的精神分析，而後被轉介給榮格，進行了長期的分析工作。 亞菲於1947至1955年擔任蘇黎世榮格學院秘書，為學院的早期規劃作出出色貢獻。1955至1961年擔任榮格私人秘書，是榮格晚年書信的整理者，也是廣為流傳的榮格回憶錄《記憶、夢和反思》（Memories, Dreams, Reflections）多數章節的執筆者。 亞菲亦是傑出的分析心理學者，極富創造力，精熟於榮格學說，在《人及其象徵》（Man and His Symbols）中寫了關於現代藝術的章節，也參與了榮格書信的德文、英文編輯工作。她的著作有《意義的神話》（...(展开全部)