爱因斯坦,举世闻名的德裔美国科学家,现代物理学的开创者和奠基人,他是科学的标志、天才的代名词。他的量子理论、相对论和宇宙学等理论,对近代科学的发展产生了极其重大的影响。建立相对论后一百年的今天,依然无人能够超越他的思想! 本书立足于翔实的史实、丰富的照片和彩绘插图,首次披露爱因斯坦的私人信件、文稿以及珍贵私密照片,向读者勾勒出爱因斯坦伟大传奇的一生:他的个人生活,他揭开原子和宇宙奥秘的过程,他所拥护的道义、政治和自由精神 本书试图从人类文化的源头上探寻爱因斯坦思想、人格的精神底蕴,深刻解读这位影响20世纪历史文化进程的传奇人物。
《人类群星闪耀时》(美绘版)是一部适合小学生看的名人传记类故事书,以原著中所选取的14位伟大人物为线索,提炼出他们最闪光的事迹,通过图文并茂、相得益彰的形式,激发孩子的阅读兴趣,并引导他们树立远大理想和人生目标。全书分别讲述斯科特、巴尔博亚、祖特尔、菲尔德、亨德尔、鲁日、歌德、列夫 托尔斯泰、陀思妥耶夫斯基、拿破仑、穆罕默德二世、列宁、西塞罗、威尔逊这14位伟大人物生平中出现的改变世界、震撼人心的伟大时刻,改编的同时保留了茨威格原著中的精髓,细节生动,语言传神,更吸引孩子。
外国名人绘本传记 是献给小读者的系列插图传记,用精美的插图和简练的文字概述了世界上各个时期的科学家、艺术家、政治家等伟大人物的人生与成就。
男孩杰克有一个心爱的伙伴,玩偶小猪嘟嘟。他们之间有着数不清的开心回忆,更重要的是,嘟嘟陪伴杰克度过了那些难熬的伤心时刻,懂得杰克说不出口的每一个烦恼。一天晚上,意外发生了,杰克弄丢了他的小猪。他伤心极了,哭着睡去,迷迷糊糊间被房间里的响动吵醒——杰克惊讶地发现,他房间里的玩具都活了,其中也包括那只被买来作为替代品的跟嘟嘟一模一样的平安小猪。平安小猪告诉杰克,要想找回他最'好的朋友,必须去往一个神奇国度,那是所有遗失物品所在的地方,但禁止人类踏足,一旦被发现会非常危险。杰克没有丝毫犹豫,和平安小猪(圣诞小猪)一起,踏上了未知的冒险旅程。
托托特是一位厨艺精湛的战地厨子,他辗转于各方军队,总能凭借准确的直觉,跟着获胜的一方。他的战场生存智慧,源于他有一颗像深海大鱼那样冷漠而奸猾的心。对托托特来说,是战争养活了他,只要有战争,将士们就要填饱肚皮,因此,他巴不得仗会一直打下去,战争就是他的整个世界。直到有一天,一个失去双腿、名叫乔治的小男孩出现在他的厨房里,打破了他平静的生活,也改变了一切……当战争终于结束,托托特回到了几乎已经被他遗忘的家乡,发现自己失去了熟悉的战场世界,却找回了那颗温暖的心。
伟人的迷你传记 是献给小读者的系列插图传记,用精美的插图和简练的文字概述了世界上各个时期的科学家、艺术家、政治家等伟大人物的人生与成就。
虫爸跟虫虫谈论的是一个有趣的话题: 钱钱。 比如:为什么不能够把所有的玩具都买走? 钱从哪里来? 工作是什么? 假如你有一笔钱会用来做什么? 钱有干净和肮脏的分别吗? 赚足够的钱好还是赚喜欢的钱好? 虫虫的问题, 也是所有孩子的问题。 虫爸的回答, 或许比你想象得更精彩绝伦。
从詹姆斯?伍德出版本批评文集《破格》(1999)以后,他已被广泛地认为是英语文学批评界的领军者。他既评判那些殿堂级经典作家(福楼拜,陀思妥耶夫斯基的),臧否晚近的重要作家(赫拉巴尔,塞巴尔德),同时也评点重要的当代作家(埃莱娜?费兰特,海伦?加纳)。他建立起了一套富有智识,又犀利精准的批评标准,并将这套标准用自成一格的文章呈现出来。 《真看》精选了伍德二十年来的批评散文,编排巧妙,相邻的两篇往往能够相互映照,折射出伍德在尖锐之余的宽厚。此外,本书亦增补了他在《纽约客》上发表的一系列对近年来极受文学界瞩目的当代作家的评论文章,将伍德评论的版图拓展至柏林、意大利、巴尔干半岛、澳洲……全面展示了伍德评论的深度与广度。
《门缝里的童年》是冰心儿童文学新作奖获奖作者丛书作品精选之门缝里的童年,有描写细腻生动的小说,优美灵动的散文,意境悠远的诗歌,活泼稚趣的幼儿文学,充满想象的童话,富含哲理的话剧,文字优美、意境深远、想象丰富,给读者以亲切的感受、心灵的启迪。
本书采用漫画的形式,向小读者展现了爱迪生从一个被学校开除的男孩儿,逐步成长为世界上最伟大的发明家的故事。在他84年的人生历程中,爱迪生创造了2000多种发明,其中有1000多种申请了发明专利,他曾在一年中申请立案141种发明,平均每3天就有一种发明问世。他从未受过良好的教育,但凭个人奋斗和非凡的才智获得了巨大成功,他被称为世界上最伟大的发明家,他是科学界无法超越的传奇。
一部动物成长小说,讲述了远古洪荒时代的一只小狼成长为狼群领袖的历程。在众多狂野生灵之中,远古时期的狼族强大而繁盛,它们是这片土地上具优势的动物,是整个大草原的统治者,是位居食物链傲视草原的种族。 n小说中没有人的踪影,却是写给少年的成长礼物。
This is the remarkable story of Roald Dahl's early years atschool and with his family. Like his stories, Dahl's childhoodtales are unmissable. This edition has a great new Quentin Blakecover and a new end section of facts about Roald Dahl.
All his life, Charles Darwin hated controversy. Yet he takes his place among the Giants of Science for what remains an immensely controversial subject: the theory of evolution. Darwin began piecing together his explanation for how all living things change or adapt during his five-year voyage on HMS Beagle. But it took him twenty years to go public, for fear of the backlash his theory would cause. Once again, Kathleen Krull delivers a witty and astute picture of one of history's greatest scientists.
《格林童话集:彩图版》由德语翻译界泰斗——巴蜀译翁杨武能教授精选、翻译、亲笔作序,由来自中国八大美院的精英画师绘制内文彩图。 《格林童话》产生于十九世纪初,是由德国语言学家雅可卜 格林和威廉 格林搜集整理而成的德国民间文学。它是世界童话的经典之作,自问世以来,在世界各地影响十分广泛。格林兄弟以其丰富的想象、优美的语言给孩子们讲述了一个个神奇而又浪漫的童话故事。 本书从二百多篇中故事中遴选精华篇目,契合儿童发展心理学,收录《小红帽》《灰姑娘》《白雪公主》《青蛙王子》等广受世界各国儿童喜爱的名篇,也收录了一些同样趣味盎然、富有教育意义的杰作。 是目前市面上译本上佳、插图精美的《格林童话》版本之一。格林童话等世界经典童话在绘本类童书销售中一直炙手可热,《格林童话集:彩图版》篇目之经典,语
With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the second… a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. One day GregMortenson set out to climb K2 - the world's second highest mountain- in honour of his younger sister, but things went wrong and Gregbecame lost. He wandered into a poor village, where the chief andhis people took him in. Moved by their kindness, Greg promised toreturn and build a school for the children. This is the remarkablestory of how Greg built not one but more than sixty schools inPakistan and Afghanistan, and how he has dedicated his life topromoting literacy, peace and understanding.
BOY,Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography,is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days.With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake. An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.This is not an autobiography' - Roald Dahl.This reissue includes 30 delightful new line drawings by the inimitable Quentin Blake. Throughout his young days at school and just afterwards,a number of things happened to Roald Dahl,which made such a tremendous impression he never forgot them.Boy is the remarkable story of Roald Dahl's childhood; tales of exciting and strange things - some funny,some frightening,all true. Roald Dahl,the best-loved of children's writers,was born in Wales of Norwegian parents.His books continue to be bestsellers,despite his death in 1990,and worldwide sales are over 100 million! Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to
《独闯天下》是达尔自传《好小子-童年故事》的续集。前面说到达尔完成了中学学习,他希望从事一个职业能带他到"象非洲和中国一样美妙的遥远地方。"他赢得了壳牌石油公司的好职位。1938年秋天,达尔被调到非洲工作,在那里他和壳牌石油公司的另两名代表一起管理整个东非领域,同时也开始有了更多奇妙惊险的经历,比如眼镜蛇进入他朋友的房子而不得不叫捕蛇者来捕蛇,或者一只狮子抓住了一个本地妇女,而达尔关于其营救过程的纪录被登在一家非洲报纸上,这成为他篇公开发表的作品。 This is the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable lifestory, following on from "Boy", that tells of his time working inAfrica and his wartime exploits. This edition has a great new coverwith illustrations by Quentin Blake, and some new facts about RoaldDahl and his world.
本系列图书汇集了众多历史上以及当今世界上*影响力的各行各业的著名人物,如林肯、达芬奇、马丁?路德?金、比尔?盖茨、斯皮尔伯格、宫崎峻等等。每一个人物都有值得孩子学习的突出优秀品质,他们的榜样作用,能激励孩子克服困难,奋发向上,成就自我。书中文字量、词汇量难易适中,适合3岁以上小读者阅读。这套书用孩子们的视角和语言,生动的讲述了那些大名鼎鼎的名人们的成长经历和生活中发生的故事,给孩子的成长灌入正能量,让他们“见贤思齐”。名人故事后附有知识点的延伸链接、名人寄语、读后感言等小栏目,让孩子在互动过程中形成对对名人的回味和思索,名人的精神和优秀品质,潜移默化为孩子健康成长的精神源泉。
Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a manwho likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant forphilosophy. Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to find'herself) and the story begins when father and son set off on a tripto Greece, where she now lives, to try to persuade her to comehome. En route, in Switzerland, Hans Thomas is given a magnifyingglass by a dwarf at a petrol station, and the next day he finds atiny book in his bread roll which can only be read with amagnifying glass. How did the book come to be there? Why does thedwarf keep showing up? It is all very perplexing and Hans Thomashas enough to cope with, with the daunting prospect of seeing hismother. Now his journey has turned into an encounter with theunfathomable...or does it all have a logical explanation?
Even grownups enjoy a bedtime story every now and then,especially one that combines, as does this one, the sophisticationof a novel with the whimsy of a fairy tale. Gaarder, the Norwegianformer professor of philosophy who brought us The Solitaire Mystery(1996) and the bestselling Sophie's World (1995), is up to hisusual tricks here, serving up a metaphysical brainteaser thatunfolds into a warm?but not preachy?meditation on God and theChristian doctrines. Set in an unnamed town in present-day Norway,it tells the story of Joachim, a young boy who finds a faded,handmade Advent calendar in a bookstore on the eve of Decemberfirst, and begs his father to let him take it home. The nextmorning, when he opens the calendar's first door, Joachim discoversnot just the expected picture but also a tightly folded piece ofpaper, the first installment of the fantastic tale of a littlegirl's journey through time and space to be present at theNativity. Soon the girl's story is making unexpected intrusionsinto Joachim's o
When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor whointroduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Whydoes she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who isthe other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? Tosolve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but thetruth is far stranger than she could have imagined. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller, SOPHIE'S WORLD sets out to drawteenagers into the world of Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel andall the great philosophers. A brilliantly original and fascinatingstory with many twists and turns, it raises profound questionsabout the meaning of life and the origin of theuniverse.