米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个能

《堂吉诃德》，全名《匪夷所思的拉曼查绅士堂吉诃德》，是伟大的西班牙作家塞万提斯的传世经典。作者以一位因误信骑士小说而毅然自号堂吉诃德的没落绅士人世行侠为主线，通过描写堂吉诃德大战风车、英勇救美、恶斗群羊、贸然释囚、挑战雄师、地穴探险、爵府奇遇等等荒诞故事，热烈地讴歌了真善美、无情地挞伐了假恶丑，充分表现出了盛行于当时的人文精神。《堂吉诃德》不愧为世界文学史上具有划时代意义的杰作，问世后四百年来，仅流传于各国的译本就有一千多种，成为世界人民的共有精神财富，泽及一代又一代杰出作家，堂吉诃德这一形象也作为耽于幻想、脱离实际的代表人物融入了现今社会生活的各个领域之中。据挪威诺贝尔学会透露，全世界五十多个国家的一百位作家在2002年上半年经过投票，评选出《堂吉诃德》为世界小说。

After a long winter of red noses and wet mittens, summer is awelcome time for Miss Read and her downland village friends. SUMMERAT FAIRACRE charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season andthe problems and possibilities that unfold against the backgroundof roses, skylarks, and bees. Joseph Coggs finds a temporary homein the schoolhouse while his mother is in the hospital. Miss Read'sfriend Amy mysteriously disappears. Perhaps most difficult of all,Mrs. Pringle, the grumpy school cleaner, is unable to work becausethe pain in her bad leg flares up. Still, the sounds of childrenplaying and the fragrance of summertime flowers fill the air, asMiss Read shepherds her students and friends through the warmseason.

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, hassuffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book hehas ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his ownname, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembersnothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort toretrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in thehills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, hesearches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photoalbums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story ofhis generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, JosephineBaker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and thelife racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel.Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocentimage: that of his first love. A fascinating, abundant newnovel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from theincomparable Eco.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Raymond Chandler's first threenovels, published here in one volume, established his reputation asan unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. "The BigSleep," Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, aprivate detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralyzed Californiamillionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder. In"Farewell, My Lovely," Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, amurder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentiallydeadly women. In "The High Window," Marlowe searches the Californiaunderworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in thetangled affairs of a dead coin collector. In all three novels,Chandler's hard-edged prose, colorful characters, vivid vernacular,and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, enduringly establishhis claim not only to the heights of his chosen genre but to thepantheon of literary art.

A lifesaving handbook for parents of children who areoccasionally, or too often, "out of control" Includes a bound-intwenty-minute DVD featuring Dr. Kazdin and his staff illustratingkey concepts of the Kazdin Method Most child-behavior books arefilled with advice that sounds reasonable, fits with what parentsalready believe about child-rearing, and is--as Dr. Kazdin proves--guaranteed to fail. The Kazdin Method for Parenting the DefiantChild makes available to parents for the first time Dr. Kazdin'sproven program--one backed up by some of the most long-term andrespected research devoted to any therapy for children.Kazdinshatters decades' worth of accumulated myths about tantrums,time-outs, punishments fitting the crime, and much more.With thepracticality of Ferber and the warmth of Brazelton, Kazdin leadsparents through every step of the Kazdin Method in action--how touse tone of voice, when and how to touch, how to lead your child ina "practice" session, how to adjust your approach for different-agechildren

Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financialcollapse, the Atlantic Monthly said: "Economic writings are seldomnotable for their entertainment value, but this book is.Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal ofsardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles andthe wondrous antics of the financial community." Originallypublished in 1955, Galbraith's book has risen once again asAmericans look for perspective on the current global financialcrisis. This new edition will be published on the 80th anniversaryof the Great Crash with a new introduction by the author's son,economist, James K. Galbraith. He is the author of "The PredatorState: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why LiberalsShould Too."

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were thepreeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dualbiography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Staufferdescribes the transformations in the lives of these two giantsduring a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected thestatus quo and embraced new ideals of personal liberty. As Douglassand Lincoln reinvented themselves and ultimately became friends,they transformed America. Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than one year of formalschooling, and became the nation's greatest president. Douglassspent the first twenty years of his life as a slave, had no formalschooling-in fact, his masters forbade him to read or write-andbecame one of the nation's greatest writers and activists, as wellas a spellbinding orator and messenger of audacious hope, thepioneer who blazed the path traveled by future African-Americanleaders. At a time when most whites would not let a black man cross theirthreshold, Lincoln invited Douglass

PopCo tells the story of Alice Butler-a subversively smartgirl in our commercial-soaked world who grows from recluse orphanto burgeoning vigilante, buttressed by mystery, codes, math, andthe sense her grandparents gave her that she could change theworld. Alice-slight introvert, crossword compositor- works atPopCo, a globally successful and slightly sinister toy company.Lured by their CEO to a Thought Camp out on the moors, PopCo'screatives must invent the ultimate product for teenage girls.Meanwhile, Alice receives bizarre, encrypted messages she suspectsrelate to her grandfather's decoding of a centuries-old manu*that many-including her long-disappeared father-believe leads toburied treasure. Its key, she's sure, is engraved on the necklaceshe's been wearing since she was ten. Using the skills she learnedfrom her grandparents and teaching us aspects of cryptanalysis,Alice discovers the source of these creepy codes. Will this leadher to the mysterious treasure or another, even more carefullyguarded sec

After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643,Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept fromthe Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne,anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fullyprovisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing. As Robertoexplores the different cabinets in the hold, he remembers chaptersfrom his youth: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege ofCasale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years' War inwhich he lost his father and his illusions; and the lessons givenhim on Reasons of State, fencing, the writing of love letters, andblasphemy. In this fascinating, lyrical tale, Umberto Eco tells ofa young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and of a mostamazing old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed thesecrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and theFlood.