A bursting, heartfelt, debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears. For as long as Rae can remember, it’s been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable, family. They have their walks, their cooking routines, their home. Sometimes Mum disappears for a while to ...(展开全部)

作者：贝丝•里维斯，美国青少年科幻/奇幻小说作家。“上帝之速”系列是她创作的青少年科幻三部曲，本系列第一部《天空的灯火》也是她的第一本长篇小说，一脱稿就被美国企鹅出版集团以高价买得版权，2011年1月出版，即荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜 当过教师的她现在和丈夫一起居住在北加利福尼亚的乡下。 她希望能用80天环游世界，还想探索月球，找到纳尼亚。 译者：张一帆，笔名“夜潮音”。上海旅居、北京工作的东北姑娘，服装设计师、杂志编辑，偶尔扮演写手角色。2011年翻译了长篇科幻小说《冥界热线》，将罗伯特•蓝金的作品带入了中国读者的视线，从此与小说翻译结缘。张一帆出版译作如下： 《冥界热线》（2011年第2期《科幻世界•译文版》）《陶偶》、《奇幻战场》系列之《术士的陵寝》、《木乃伊的诅咒》（预计2012年6月出版）《女童》（预计2012年12月出版）《上帝之速I ...(展开全部)

Godspeed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to enact his vision - no more Phydus, no more lies. But when Elder discovers sh...(展开全部)

Trapped on board the spaceship Godspeed, Amy trusts no-one. The ship's ruler is dead and a rebellion threatens. Amy wants to help Elder as he tries to take charge, but she's torn between her feelings for him and the chaos that's pulling everything apart. As more harrowing discoveries are made about Godspeed, Amy is caught in a desperate race to unravel its secrets. Only one thi...(展开全部)

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the prese...(展开全部)

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present...(展开全部)

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic, and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, Eco published a little book for his students, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis. Since...(展开全部)

Once there was a boy, and that boy loved stars very much. So much so that he decided to catch one of his very own. But how? Waiting for them to grow tired from being up in the sky all night doesn't work. Climbing to the top of the tallest tree? No, not tall enough. The boy has a rocket ship . . . but it is made of paper and doesn't fly well at all. Finally, just when the boy is...(展开全部)

There once was a boy! and the boy loved stars very much! There once was a boy who loved stars so much that he wished he had one of his very own. Every night he watched the stars in the sky from his bedroom window and dreamed of how he could be their friend and how they could play hide-and-go-seek together. So, one day, he decided to set about catching a star of his very own!