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简介：Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby?s mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner ?Papa? Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a...   more 籺icket of passage for the Leviathan, a gigantic steamship soon to depart Southampton on its maiden voyage to Calcutta. The murderer must be among its passengers. In Cairo, the ship is boarded by a young Russian diplomat with a shock of white hair?none other than Erast Fandorin, the celebrated detective of Boris Akunin?s The Winter Queen. The sleuth joins forces with Gauche to determine which of ten unticketed passengers on the Leviathan is the rue de Grenelle killer. Tipping his hat to Agatha Christie, Akunin assembles a colorful cast of suspects?including a secretive Japanese doctor, a professor who specializes in rare Indian artifacts, a pregnant Swiss woman, and an English aristocrat with an appetite for collecting Asian treasures?all of whom are conned together until the crime is solved. As the Leviathan steams toward Calcutta, will Fandorin be able to out-investigate Gauche and discover who the killer is, even as the ship?s passengers are murdered, one by one? Already an international sensation, Boris Akunin?s latest page-turner transports the reader back to the glamorous, dangerous past in a richly atmospheric tale of suspense on the high seas.   ?less

Director MX系列版本编创教程

作者：  严晨编著

出版社：化学工业出版社,2006

简介：本书共分为三大部分，第一部分是基础篇，首次提出了多媒体数字艺术的概念，在Macromedia Director MX 2004基础知识论述中，分别从创建文本演员、创建图形与图像演员、导入音频演员、导入视频演员、执导Cast（演员表）与Score（剧本）窗口、Direct MX 2004的动画制作、Macromedia Director MX 2004作品的发布等方面详细介绍了该软件的使用方法。第二部分是深入篇，主要介绍了Lingo语言入门及语法精粹和特效实例，以便于读者进一步提高多媒体的制作水平。第三部分是艺术篇，讲述了多媒体的应用领域，并通过实例对多媒体数字艺术的艺术性创作与设计手法进行深入剖析。本书附赠配套光盘。 本书语言生动、内容实用、循序渐进、便于理解，可供从事多媒体设计人员参考使用，也可作为大中专院校相关专业师生的教学参考书。

A global history : from prehistory to the 21st century = 全球通史. / 第7版.

作者：  L. S. Stavrianos.

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简介：　　From the Author to the Reader 　　Each age writes its own history. Not because the earlier history is wrong, but because each age faces new problems, asks new questions, and seeks new answers. This precept is self-evident today when the tempo of change is increasing exponentially, creating a correspondingly urgent need for new history posing new questions and offering new answers. 　　Our own generation, for example, was brought up on West-oriented history, and naturally so, in a West-dominated world. The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were an era of Western hegemony in politics, in economics, and in culture. But the two World Wars and the ensuing colonial revolutions quickly ended that hegemony, as evidenced by the disappearance of the great European empires from the maps of the world. The names and the colors on the maps changed radically, reflecting the new world that had emerged by the mid-twentieth century. 　　Slowly and reluctantly we recognized that our traditional West-oriented history was irrelevant and misleading in this world. A new global perspective was needed to make sense of the altered circumstances. The transition from the old to the new was achieved, albeit with much soul searching and acrimony. By the 1960s the reality of the shift was evident in the emergence of the World History Association, in the appearance of the Journal of World History, and in the publication of the first edition of this text. 　　This brings us back to our original question: Why publish a new edition for the twentieth-first century, only a few decades after the first edition? The answer is the same as the answer given to justify the first edition: a new world requires a correspondingly new historical approach. The postcolonial world of the 1960s necessitated a new global history. Today the equally new world of the 1990s, and of the twentieth-first century, requires an equally new historical approach. The new world of the 1960s was in large part the product of the colonial revolutions. The new world of the 1990s , as Pope Pius VI noted, is the product of the “magic influence of science and technology”. The pervasiveness of this influence is evident in the “gigantic problems” it has created in all aspects of our lives. For example, students of the late twentieth century doubtless remember their daily prostration under their wooden desks, probably wondering what protection those flimsy structures could offer against nuclear bombs. 　　The generation of students had to face up to not only new dangers to human life, but also to unprecedented peril to the mother Earth which had given birth to that life. Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau has warmed: Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the twentieth century than in all previous human history. Likewise the environmental organization Worldwatch Institute concluded in 1989: By the end of the next decade the die will pretty well be cast. As the world enters the twentieth-first century, the community of nations either will have rallied and turned back the threatening trends, or environmental deterioration and social disintegration will be feeding on each other.　　

House of Cards [TV-Tie-in Edition] The book that inspired Netflix series House of Cards Starring Kevin Spacey Michael Dobbs力作 当当网5星级英文学习产品

作者：  Michael

出版社：HarperCollins UK 2007年11月

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　　This blood-and-thunder tale, lifelike and thoroughly cynical, certainly carries the ring of authenticity ... a great triumph.' - Independent
　　The exciting thriller that has Westminster buzzing. Here is a political thriller writer with a marvellous inside track knowledge of government.' - Daily Express
　　It has pace, a beguiling authenticity and a cast of Achilles heels.' - Daily Telegraph
　　What a brilliant creation F.U. is.' - Sunday Telegraph

LOVE

作者：  Toni Morrison 　著

出版社：Random House US 2005年1月

简介：Book DescriptionToni Morrison's new novelis a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power andperversity, color and class that spans three generations of blackwomen in a fading beach town.In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who woulddo almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them maybe even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee,mistress: As Morrison's protagonists stake their furious claim onCosey's memory and estate, using everything from intrigue tooutright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny,erotic, and heart-wrenching.Amazon.comThe first page of Toni Morrison's novel Love is a soft introductionto a narrator who pulls you in with her version of a tale of theocean-side community of Up Beach, a once popular ocean resort.Morrison introduces an enclave of people who react to one man--BillCosey--and to each other as they tell of his affect on generationsof characters living in the seaside community. One clear truthhere, told time and again, is how folks love and hate each otherand the myriad ways it's manifested; these versions of humanity areseen in almost every line. Monsters and ghosts creep into younggirls' dreams and around corners and then return to staid ladies'lives as they age and remember friendships and cold battles. Menand women--Heed, Romen, Junior, Christine, Celestial, and the restof Morrison's cast--cry and sing out their weaknesses and strengthsin rotating perspectives. Sandler, a Cosey employee, is a brilliantagent of Morrison's descriptions of human behavior, "Then, in asudden shift of subject that children and heavy drinkers enjoy, 'Myson, Billy was about your age. When he died, I mean.'" And Romen isallowed to play hero by saving a young girl from a brutal gangrape, while at the same time, he battles disgust like no superhumanwould be caught dead feeling.Though slim in pages, Morrison constructs Love with a precision andelegance that shows her characters' flaws and fears with brutalaccuracy. Love may be less complex than others in the grandMorrison oeuvre, but not because Morrison performs literaryhand-holding. Readers will experience in this smooth, sharp-eyedgem another instance of the Toni Morrison craftsmanship: she entersyour mind, hangs a tale or two there, and leaves just as quietly asshe came.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--E. Brooke GilbertFrom Publishers WeeklyAt the center of this haunting, slender eighth novel by Nobelwinner Morrison is the late Bill Cosey-entrepreneur, patriarch,revered owner of the glorious Cosey Hotel and Resort (once "thebest and best-known vacation spot for colored folk on the EastCoast") and captivating ladies' man. When the novel opens, theresort has long been closed, and Cosey's mansion shelters only twofeuding women, his widow, Heed, and his granddaughter, Christine.Then sly Junior Viviane, fresh out of "Reform, then Prison,"answers the ad Heed placed for a companion and secretary, and setsthe novel's present action-which is secondary to the rich past-inmotion. "Rigid vipers," Vida Gibbons calls the Cosey women;formerly employed at the Cosey resort, Vida remembers only itsgrandeur and the benevolence of its owner, though her husband,Sandler, knew the darker side of Vida's idol. As Heed and Christinefeud ("Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy:it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself"), Junior ofthe "sci-fi eyes" vigorously seduces Vida and Sandler's teenagegrandson. In lyrical flashbacks, Morrison slowly, teasingly revealsthe glories and horrors of the past-Cosey's suspicious death, theprovenance of his money, the vicious fight over his coffin, hisdisputed will. Even more carefully, she unveils the women inCosey's life: his daughter-in-law, May, whose fear that civilrights would destroy everything they had worked for drove her tokleptomania and insanity; May's daughter, Christine, who spent hardyears away from the paradise of the hotel; impoverished Heed theNight Johnson, who became Cosey's very young "wifelet"; themysterious "sporting woman" Celestial; and L, the wise and quietformer hotel chef, whose first-person narration weaves throughoutthe novel, summarizing and appraising lives and hearts. Morrisonhas crafted a gorgeous, stately novel whose mysteries are graduallyunearthed, while Cosey, its axis, a man "ripped, like the rest ofus, by wrath and love," remains deliberately in shadow, even as hisfamily burns brightly, terribly around him.From BooklistDespite the simplicity of its title, Love is a profound novel. ANobel laureate must feel considerable pressure to keep performingon a higher level than other writers. With her latest novel,Morrison slaps our face with the fact that she is better than most.The book has the tone of an elegy, for it emerges as a remembranceof and yearning for past times and past people in a black seasidecommunity. There were days, back in the 1940s and 1950s, when theCosey Hotel and Resort was the place for blacks to vacation, dance,and dine. Bill Cosey, a charismatic figure greatly attractive towomen, ran the resort. But now Bill is dead, and the story is, aswe see, not only a paean to past good times but also a portrait ofBill Cosey's power. Unusual for blacks at the time, Bill did enjoypower, both economic and social, for as far as the boundaries ofhis coastal town reached--his kingdom by the sea. Now, in hisabsence, the women in his life jockey for their own power in thevacuum he left behind; their world now revolves around his will,scribbled many years ago on a dirty menu. The novel's sectionheadings tell the tale of the different roles Bill played in thesewomen's lives: friend, benefactor, lover, and husband, amongothers. At least in her later novels, Morrison can stand to becriticized for obscurantism, which is also the case, to a certaindegree, here; in fact, readers may want to compose a chart as theyread, to keep characters and their relationships to each otherstraight. But as a vivid painter of human emotions, Morrison iswithout peer, her impressions rendered in an exquisitely metaphoricbut comfortably open style.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Brad HooperFrom AudioFileBill Cosey's male magnetism attracts the women who inhabitMorrison's pages. Some commanding, some flighty, all are drawn toCosey's passion. Once, Cosey's Hotel and Resort on the beach wasthe place for "colored folk on the East Coast." Now, the run-downstructure is home to his contentious widow and granddaughter.Through a series of retrospectives, the mystery of the questionablecircumstances surrounding Cosey's death and his role in eachwoman's life gradually unfolds. Morrison confronts issues of racein America, particularly the deep disappointment of manyAfrican-Americans in the face of ineffectual civil rightslegislation. Aching with melancholy for another, better, time, atime left in a troubled past, Morrison's novel combines elegance oflanguage with a lush, luxurious reading to make "must listening."S.J.H. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones AwardBook Dimensionlength: (cm)20.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.2

Best American Short Stories 2006

作者：  Katrina Kenison　著

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006-10-1

简介：　　"While a single short story may have a difficult time raisingenough noise on its own to be heard over the din of civilization,short stories in bulk can have the effect of swarming bees,blocking out sound and sun and becoming the only thing you canthink about," writes Ann Patchett in her introduction to The BestAmerican Short Stories 2006. This vibrant, varied sampler of theAmerican literary scene revels in life's little absurdities,captures timely personal and cultural challenges, and ultimatelyshares subtle insight and compassion. In "The View from CastleRock," the short story master Alice Munro imagines a fictionalaccount of her Scottish ancestors' emigration to Canada in 1818.Nathan Englander's cast of young characters in "How We Avenged theBlums" confronts a bully dubbed "The Anti-Semite" to both comic andtragic ends. In "Refresh, Refresh," Benjamin Percy gives aforceful, heart-wrenching look at a young man's choices when hisfather -- along with most of the men in his small town -- isdeployed to Iraq. Yiyun Li's "After a Life" reveals secrets, hiddenshame, and cultural change in modern China. And in "Tatooizm,"Kevin Moffett weaves a story full of humor and humanity about ayoung couple's relationship that has run its course. Ann Patchett"brought unprecedented enthusiasm and judiciousness to The BestAmerican Short Stories 2006]," writes Katrina Kenison in herforeword, "and she is, surely, every story writer's ideal reader,eager to love, slow to fault, exquisitely attentive to the text andall that lies beneath it."

The Art and Making of Terminator Genisys《终结者3：创世纪》电影艺术设定集 施瓦辛格重归“终结者”系列 创意与《回到未来》非常类似，电影上映后发售！敬请期待！

作者：  David

出版社：Insight Edition 2015年06月

简介：Go behind the scenes of one of the most anticipated movies of 2015 withTerminator Genisys: Resetting the Future.Capturing the complete creative journey behind the making of the film, the book will also look at the daunting challenges that the team faced in creating a new installment in one of the best-loved sci-fi sagas in cinema history.Terminator Genisys: Resetting the Futuremakes extensive use of concept art and unit photography from the production, balancing an in-depth and satisfying narrative with a striking visual account of the making of the film.Terminator Genisys: Resetting the Futurealso features interviews with key cast and crew members plus a wealth of inserts and removable items, such as * pages, pieces of concept art, notes from the set, and other pieces of ephemera that further enhance the reading experience.

The namesake / 1st Mariner Books ed.

作者：  Jhumpa Lahiri.

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简介：'The Namesake' is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America. 'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes!' For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' -- after his favourite writer. Brought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. And so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss! Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. Elegant, subtle and moving, 'The Namesake' is for everyone who loved the clarity, sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, 'Interpreter of Maladies'.

Art of Marvel Studios

作者：  Marvel

出版社：Hachette 2011年09月

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　　FROM COMIC-BOOK LEGENDS TO SILVER-SCREEN SUPER HEROES! Marvel presents an insider's look into the making of its cinematic universe - assembling three Avengers in one stylish slipcase. Featuring exclusive production artwork, behind-the-scenes photography, and in-depth cast-and-crew interviews, this four-book collection is a must have for any fan of Mighty Marvel movies! Includes IRON MAN: THE ART OF IRON MAN THE MOVIE HC, IRON MAN: THE ART OF IRON MAN 2 HC, THOR: THE ART OF THOR THE MOVIE HC and CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE ART OF CAPTAIN AMERICA - THE FIRST AVENGER HC.

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简介：From the first white performers who blackened their faces with burnt cork to contemporary rapper Eminem, whites have been fascinated with performing in the guise and style of African Americans. White America's obsession with black music spans centuries. That fixation is more than skin deep - it's a primordial itch of the psyche to dance like nobody's watching and sing like no one else can hear. White Americans have long believed that no one sings or dances like the African Americans who were brought to this country at gunpoint. To envy the creative freedom of a race brought to America enslaved sets up a fascinating irony, and Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture is an ambitious and comprehensive look at race relations in the United States as seen through the prism of music from slavery to the present. Equal parts social history and pop culture, this book argues that no form of American music can be described accurately as ethnically pure, and fleshes out the tug-of-war between blacks and whites as they create, recreate, and claim each innovation in popular music. Taking a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at how genres such as rock 'n' roll, rhythm 'n blues, jazz, blues, soul, country, and hip-hop emerged through changing times and the dynamic personalities that shaped them, author Kevin Phinney chronicles the history of American music through its succession of black and white composers, performers, and entrepreneurs who have stepped into the limelight with one set of rules in place and departed having transformed not only the music, but the structure of society as well. By using each era's greatest commercial successes as a roadmap, he connects the signposts of America's musical evolution and societal shifts into a panoramic whole. Tracing a direct line from plantation field hollers to gangsta rap, Phinney explains how jazz sprang up in New Orleans when military band instruments were abandoned after the Civil War, how spirituals matured into gospel, and even how the teen idols of yesteryear forecast the paths of New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men, who in turn ensured that bands like the Backstreet Boys would be million-selling superstars waiting to happen. In doing so, he carefully recreates each era to help readers understand how these cultural milestones occurred, what the participants felt about them at the time, and the ways they recombined to create the music of today-including work songs, spirituals, bebop, rock, soul, and rap. Anecdotes are rich and plentiful as the focus shifts from slavery and blackface to jazz, the British Invasion, and the MTV generation. White and black artists speak candidly about sharing the limelight, with jazz great Art Blakey complaining that the only way a white musician can swing "is from a rope." Show business insider stories include Donny Osmond's recollection that he was ushered into the Osmond Brothers barbershop group in order to transform them into a white Jackson 5, and Stevie Ray Vaughan's belief that on the best nights, his band sounded "like niggas." Also contained are appreciations of unsung music icons, among them James Reese Europe, the black man behind the Fox Trot, the organizer of the first black musician's union in New York City, and the man credited with bringing jazz to the European continent as the leader of a World War I military band of combat heroes. Meticulously researched, this book includes dozens of exclusive celebrity interviews, culminating in revealing perspectives and statements from such music luminaries as Artie Shaw, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Little Richard, B.B. King, Sly Stone, Steve Cropper, Joe Cocker, Buddy Guy, Donny Osmond, Bill Withers, Eric Burdon, Donna Summer, Lyle Lovett, Chaka Khan, Jerry Wexler, George Clinton, David Byrne, Bonnie Raitt, Nile Rodgers, Beck, and members of groups ranging from Fats Walle's band, The Rhythm, to Motown's Supremes, Temptations, Four Tops, and Jackson 5, up through the Bee Gees, the Time, and beyond. Filmmakers John Landis (The Blues Brothers) and Ken Burns (JAZZ) join scholars, critics, deejays, veejays, and record executives to add their pieces to the 400-year-old puzzle. The emphasis throughout is not on sex and drugs, but on the inspirations for such memorable compositions as "Oh, Susannah," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Rhapsody in Blue," "My Funny Valentine," "Rock Around the Clock," "The Thrill Is Gone," and "The Real Slim Shady." In the connections it makes and the conclusions it draws, Souled American stands well apart from most music books. Its goal is a search for significance rather than another chronology of names, dates, and chart positions. Illuminating rather than regurgitating, revealing rather than rehashing, the book keeps an eye on the present as even today, music and race continue to cast a shadow play over what we mean to each other and who we are as black and white Americans. - Dust jacket.

【预订】Flipped

作者：  Draanen

出版社：Random House US 2003年05月

简介：　　The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." He says: "It's been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort." But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he's thinking there's more to her than meets the eye, she's thinking that he's not quite all he seemed. This is a classic romantic comedy of errors told in alternating chapters by two fresh, funny new voices. Wendelin Van Draanen is at her best here with a knockout cast of quirky characters and a hilarious series of misunderstandings and missed opportunities. But underlying the humor are two teens in transition. They are each learning to look beyond the surface of people, both figuring out who they are, who they want to be, and who they want to be with. "From the Hardcover edition."　　

David Copperfield

作者：  Charles Dickens

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简介：Considered to be the most autobiographical of all Dickens's novels?Cast out by his cruel stepfather to the brutal boarding school Salem House, young David Copperfield quickly learns that he must fight for a better life. After discovering his mother has died while he has been away, David is left all alone in the world and is sent to work in his stepfather's factory. He decides his only option is to run away, so he escapes London and finds his way to Dover. Once there he hopes to be taken in by his only known relative, his eccentric Aunt Betsy Trotwood—but will he ever be able to find the love and security he needs?

C++高级进阶教程[电子资源.图书]

作者：  陈刚主编

出版社：武汉大学出版社,2008

简介：　　本书在假定读者有一定的C++编程能力的基础上，进一步加强了对一些基本概念(如文字常量与常变量、指针与引用、作用域与生命期、分离编译模式、声明与定义、静态联编与动态联编等)的解释，介绍了一些不太常用的关键字(如volatile、mumble、static cast、dynamic_cast、const_cast、reinterpret_cast等)的用法。同时，介绍了一些C++语言机制的底层实现方案，如引用是怎样实现的、对象上的实例成员函数是怎样被调用的、虚函数表是如何存储以及如何被访问的、new和delete的实现过程是怎样的，等等。另外，还进一步加深了对一些常用的C++语言机制的讲解，如sizeof的用法、typedef的用法、命名空间的定义和使用、多维数组与多重指针、各种操作符的重载等，同时也对一些高级话题，如怎样调试程序、为什么需要设计模式、怎样应对C++语言的复杂性等进行了探讨。 　　 希望通过对这些内容的学习，使读者能够在微观和宏观两个方面进一步拓展对C++语言的认识，从而能够更好地利用它进行程序开发。 　　 本书可作为高年级本科生、研究生的程序设计语言教材，也可供相关的工程技术人员参考。

Amelia Bedelia Talks Turkey阿米利亚波德里亚说土耳其语ISBN9780060843540

作者：  Parish

出版社：HarperCollins 2009年08月

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　　America’s favorite housekeeper has quite a tendency forgetting those important little details wrong. So just imagine allthat might go awry when Amelia Bedelia is put in charge of theschool Thanksgiving pageant! She thinks “roles” are a type ofbread, the “dressing room” is where you stuff the turkey, and thata “cast party” comes after someone’s told you to “break a leg!” Butof course, things somehow always work out for Amelia Bedelia, andthis play’s no exception. One thing’s for sure: this book is sofunny, you’ll be giving th

UNSTOPPABLE SERIES SALES ? The Amelia Bedelia series has soldmore than 21 million copies to date ICR PAPERBACKS A HIT ? AmeliaBedelia: Rocket Scientist? (Winter 2007) and Amelia Bedelia: UnderConstruction (Summer 2007) have each sold more than 50,000 copiesHUGE BOOK CLUB/FAIR SALES ? Amelia Bedelia is a giant in the schoolbook club and book fair world, selling hundreds of thousands ofcopies of each title IT’S ALL IN GOOD PUN ? Beginning readers loveAmelia Bedelia’s literal mishaps, learning wordplay while masteringearly reading skil

The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition《记忆传授人》电影封面版ISBN9780544340688

作者：  Lois

出版社：Houghton Mifflin 2014年01月

简介：　　Now a major motion picture! The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

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简介：     Book Description     The Dursleys were so mean that hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.          And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.          But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself?          Amazon.com     It's hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, he is in terrible danger indeed. As if it's not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year. But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car, it is just his luck to crash into a valuable (but clearly vexed) Whomping Willow. Still, all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts.          Chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him. Soon it's not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen at Hogwarts. The mysteriously gleaming, foot-high words on the wall proclaim, "The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware." But what exactly does it mean? Harry, Hermione, and Ron do everything that is wizardly possible--including risking their own lives--to solve this 50-year-old, seemingly deadly mystery. This deliciously suspenseful novel is every bit as gripping, imaginative, and creepy as the first; familiar student concerns--fierce rivalry, blush-inducing crushes, pedantic professors--seamlessly intertwine with the bizarre, horrific, fantastical, or just plain funny. Once again, Rowling writes with a combination of wit, whimsy, and a touch of the macabre that will leave readers young and old desperate for the next installment. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson          Amazon.com Audiobook Review     What makes the Harry Potter series so successful? Maybe it's the fact that J.K. Rowling doesn't write children's books, she writes children's stories, more in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm than Dr. Seuss. The exploits of Harry and his friends captivate even the shortest attention spans by engaging the imagination with vivid characters and fast-moving action, instead of trying to merely catch the eye with colorful pictures or pop-up effects. Not surprisingly, the Potter tales sound wonderful read aloud, and adapt to the audiobook format extremely well. Broadway actor Jim Dale's impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice--a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing. And thankfully, since the book is read unabridged, no one's favorite character is omitted. Engaging for children without being childish, the audio version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is worthy addition to the deservedly popular series. (Running time: 9 hours, 6 cassettes)     --Andrew Nieland          From School Library Journal     Grade 4 Up-Harry Potter is even more eager to leave the Dursleys and return to Hogwarts now that he knows about witchcraft, wizardry, and magic and has friends like Hermione, Ron, and Hagrid. J.K. Rowling's bestseller is presented enthusiastically by Jim Dale. Each character's personality comes through in clear descriptive tones. Listeners will enjoy hearing all the difficult words pronounced easily and clearly. It is a plus for American children to hear a British actor read the book with proper pronunciations. This recording is a wonderful addition to library collections and will make the story accessible to youngsters who might be overwhelmed by the length of the book and the complexity of some of the words.     Nancy A. Gifford, Schenectady County Public Library, NY          From Booklist     Given the furor this book has already caused in the U.S., it seems almost redundant to review it; however. . . . Harry Potter's exploits during his second year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry completely live up to the bewitching measure of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, a Booklist Editors' Choice, 1998. Harry's summer with the spiteful Dursleys is as dismal as his life with them before Hogwarts, and not only that, a neurotic house-elf suddenly appears to warn him against returning to school. Harry, of course, goes back to school. Once there, he finds himself in danger, as predicted by the house-elf. Strange things are happening. Why can only Harry hear an eerie voice talking about escaping and killing? Who or what has put several students into a petrified state? Harry and his sidekicks, Ron and Hermione, work furiously to get to the bottom of it all. It doesn't help that the rumor spreads that Harry is the long-dreaded heir of Slytherin, one of the school's founders, who purportedly created a Chamber of Secrets that houses a grotesque monster that can only be released by the heir. The mystery, zany humor, sense of a traditional British school (albeit with its share of ghosts, including Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom), student rivalry, and eccentric faculty, all surrounded by the magical foundation so necessary in good fantasy, are as expertly crafted here as in the first book. Fans who have been thirsting for this sequel will definitely not feel any disappointment. In fact, once they have read it, they will be lusting for the next.     Sally Estes          From Library Journal     Grade 3-8-With a year at Hogwarts School under his belt, Harry expects the new term to go smoothly, but a wizard's share of surprises and adventures await the likable lad and his friends. Rowling works her magic and leaves readers begging for more. (July)          From Kirkus Reviews     This sequel to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998) brings back the doughty young wizard-in-training to face suspicious adults, hostile classmates, fretful ghosts, rambunctious spells, giant spiders, and even an avatar of Lord Voldemort, the evil sorcerer who killed his parents, while saving the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from a deadly, mysterious menace. Ignoring a most peculiar warning, Harry kicks off his second year at Hogwarts after a dreadful summer with his hateful guardians, the Dursleys, and is instantly cast into a whirlwind of magical pranks and misadventures, culminating in a visit to the hidden cavern where his friend Ron's little sister Ginny lies, barely alive, in a trap set by his worst enemy. Surrounded by a grand mix of wise and inept faculty, sneering or loyal peersplus an array of supernatural creatures including Nearly Headless Nick and a huge, serpentine basiliskHarry steadily rises to every challenge, and though he plays but one match of the gloriously chaotic field game Quidditch, he does get in plenty of magic and a bit of swordplay on his way to becoming a hero again. Readers will be irresistibly drawn into Harry's world by GrandPr's comic illustrations and Rowling's expert combination of broad boarding school farce and high fantasy. (Fiction. 11-14)          Book Dimension     length: (cm)19.7 width:(cm)12.8

Pride and prejudice /

作者：  Jane Austen.

出版社：

简介：    《傲慢与偏见》主讲了奥斯丁的讽刺艺术,不仅表现在某些人物的喜剧性格上,也不仅表现在众多情节的喜剧性处理上,而且还融汇在整个故事的反讽构思中,让现实对人们的主观臆想进行嘲讽。男主角达西最初断定,贝内特家有那么多不利因素,几个女儿很难找到有地位的男人,可后来恰恰是他娶了伊丽莎白。而伊丽莎白呢,她曾发誓决不嫁给达西,可最后还是由她做了达西夫人。再看看那个不可一世的凯瑟琳·德布尔夫人,为了阻止伊丽莎白与她外甥达西攀亲,她不辞辛劳,亲自出马,先是跑来威吓伊丽莎白,继而跑去训诫达西,殊不知正是她这次奔走为两位默默相恋的青年通了信息,促成了他们的美满结合。更令人啼笑皆非的是,就在这几位“智者”受到现实嘲弄的同时,书中那位最可笑的“愚人”贝内特太太,最后却被证明是最正确的。她认为:“有钱的单身汉总要娶位太太,这是一条举世公认的真理。”这种荒谬与“真理”的滑稽转化,尽管超越了一般意义上的是非观念,但却体现了作者对生活的深刻思索。          It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage——tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families——in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.     Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. ——Alix Wilber ——This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Pajama Time! [Board Book,by Sandra Boynton] 睡衣时间 ISBN9780761119753

作者：  Sandra Boynton　著

出版社：Workman 2000年4月

简介：　　Boynton is back! Joining "Barnyard Dance! "and "BirthdayMonsters!," here is "Pajama Time! "a good-night book with theirrepressible language, the inimitable illustrations, theirresistible cast of characters only Sandra Boynton couldcreate.A ju　　mp-roping chicken and a pig on a swing. A Scottie in plaidpajamas and an elephant in a fuzzy one-piece with feet. And insing-along nuttiness reminiscent of "Barnyard Dance!," it's time tohead to bed-to the beat: Pajammy to the left. Pajammy to the right.Jamma jamma jamma jamma P!J! Everybody's wearing them for dancingtonight. Jamma jamma jamma jamma P!J!

Whose Hat Is It? 这是谁的帽子？ISBN9780060534363

作者：  Gorbachev

出版社：HarperCollins 2005年05月

简介：

　　When a little turtle comes across a lost hat, he is determinedto find its owner. He asks Mouse, and Rabbit, and even Crocodile ifit belongs to them, but they all say it isn't theirs. Whose hat canit be?
　　一阵像飓风般的大风把一顶粉红色的帽子吹离开主人。一只担忧的乌鸦寻访老鼠、兔子、海獭、鳄鱼与大象的家，试图要找到帽子的主人。。。
　　全页的水彩插画以钢笔与墨水一笔一画的绘制出一只很有毅力的乌鸦寻找帽子主人的过程。当文章进行到宣布主人帽子是谁之前的这一段过程可以促进读者在阅读时对文字的视觉辨别——重复的问题：“这是你的帽子吗？”，以及接二连三的相同的答案：“这不是我的帽子”。也许可预料的结局缺乏惊奇感，读者可能会从帽子的尺寸猜出主人，然而故事为年纪小的读者提供一个让人感到舒服的结局，让孩子可以安心的阅读。

?Valeri Gorbachev’s books are a cross between the work of ArnoldLobel and Richard Scarry, two of the most beloved--andbest-selling--children’s book author/illustrators of all time.?Vibrant, adorable art and an appealing animal character cast,including a very helpful little turtle, will make this enchantingMy First I Can Read Book a hit with our youngest readers! ?Valeri’ssecond I Can Read Book, MS. TURTLE THE BABYSITTER, also appears onthe Spring 2005 list. ?Simple, repetitive text is perfect for theyoungest beginning reade

Separation process principles

作者：  (美)J. D. Seader，(美)Ernest J. Henley原著;朱开宏，吴俊生译

出版社：华东理工大学出版社,2007

简介：　　本书在介绍与分离过程相关的热力学和传递过程知识的基础上，采用理论与实践密切结合的方式，详细阐述了各类分离过程（精馏、吸收、解吸、萃取、膜分离、吸附、浸取、结晶和干燥等）的物理化学原理、工业应用、主要设备、数学模型、设计计算方法和计算机应用软件。本书反映了分离过程学科的发展历史和最新进展。可作为化学工程与工艺及相关专业本科生、研究生的教材或教学参考书，也可供从事化工过程研究、开发、设计及生产管理的工程技术人员参考。 　　 作者简介： 　　 i.d.seader是美国犹太大学化学工程荣誉退休教授。他从加利福尼亚大学伯克莱分校获得学土学位和硕士学位，从威斯康辛大学获得哲学博士学位。从1952到1959年，seader为加利福尼亚州利兹曼（richmond）市的chevron研究所设计了工艺过程；从1959到1965年他为位于加利福尼亚州卡诺伽园（canoga park）的rocketdyne公司主持了火箭引擎的研究。他在犹太大学执教共有37年；在到犹太大学任教前，他曾在爱达荷大学担任过教授。他共发表（包括与别人合作）过110篇科技论文，出版过8部著作并拥有4项发明专利，并且还是perry's chemicaf engineers' handbooh第六版和第七版中蒸馏篇的参编者。seader曾担任美国化工计算机辅助教学协会（cache）理事33年，从1980到1984年担任常务主管。在20年中他主持了将孟山都公司的flow~i、ran过程模拟计算机程序系统在各大学中的应用和推广工作。从1983到1985年seader还担任了美国化学工程师学会（aiche）的理事。1983年他在美国化学工程师学会第35届年会上作了报告。1988年他获得美国化学工程师学会计算机辅助和系统技术（cast）分会的化工计算奖；2004年美国工程教育协会（asee）授予他化工计算机辅助奖，表彰他在化学工程教育方面的卓越贡献；在2004年他还是美国化学工程师学会化工教育warren k．lewis奖的获奖者之一。他曾担任industrialand engineering chemistry research杂志的副主编共12年。