这是一本给8岁以上孩子阅读的人文地理探险故事书,讲述13世纪商旅探险家马可 波罗周游世界、最终到达中国的传奇故事。1271年,马可 波罗和他的家人经过地中海,渡过两河流域,来到伊朗边境,越过帕米尔高原,最终到达遥远的东方。他在中国留居17年之久,见识过忽必烈宴请万人的盛况,也醉心于江南的细雨杨堤 他把一路上的地理面貌、风土人情全都记在脑海里,最终口述完成了这部伟大的世界 奇书 。时至今日,仍有很多外国人对中国的第一印象来源于马可 波罗在书中的叙述。
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。
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。
这是一本给8岁以上孩子阅读的人文地理探险故事书,讲述亚历山大 冯 洪堡在美洲科考旅行的故事。他是那个时代最伟大的探险家和博物学家之一,他对环球旅行和探险充满热忱,同时对自然知识有着无止境的渴求。他攀登过最高的火山,趟过美洲丛林里不知名的河流,他孜孜不倦地探索世界,身后是许多以他名字命名的地方,还有许多同时代的伟人深受他的影响和启发:德国诗人歌德、生物学家达尔文、美国总统托马斯 杰斐逊、自由斗士西蒙 珀利瓦尔 亚历山大 冯 洪堡的一生,就是一个传奇。
《看世界! 100 位艺术家的故事》是一本写给孩子的艺术启蒙书。本书旨在教孩子用不一样的角度去观察和认识世界。 本书精选了全球100 位艺术家,从史前时期的拉斯科岩洞壁画的创作者、文艺复兴三杰,再到当代艺术家,时间跨度近20000 年。 作者用深入浅出的语言,凝练地介绍了全球100 位艺术家的创作故事和艺术思想,并通过有趣的故事、贴近生活的事例和富有创意的插画,潜移默化地启发孩子探究艺术与现实的关系,为孩子打开多维空间,让孩子从不同艺术家的眼中看到更多元的世界,学会用不同形式表达世界,激发孩子的创新潜能。
成年后,你是否还怀有梦想并敢于追寻?是否还乐于冒险并对生活充满热情? 法国儿童文学巨匠旁帝、玛丽夫妇强强联手。 用56个孩子的童年轶事,照出每个人心底*真实的自己。 镜子般的书,唤醒各代人的好奇心。让大人重拾儿时的梦想,让孩子看到成长的意义。 柯克斯书评 无论人们记得与否, 童年是抹不掉的,永远都抹不掉。 所有的男人和女人都与他们2岁、5岁、10岁 或12岁时的样子相似。他们的童年没有消失, 只是随着岁月发生了变化,展开了新颜。 56 个来自世界各地不同阶层、不同职业的人,讲述了他们的童年往事和生命中的重要时刻。他们当中,有爱因斯坦、居里夫人、戴高乐、孔子这样的伟人;也有安徒生、卓别林、弗里达、巴尔扎克这样在专业领域大有成就的人;还有圣诞老人、伽内什、赫拉克勒斯、摩西这样的神话人物,以
本书以西方活字印刷术的发明史为时代背景,讲述了现代印刷之父 约翰 古登堡是如何从一名性情急躁的城市新贵之子成为名垂千古的伟大发明家的故事。作者从古登堡的童年、家庭、成长、时代背景等各个角度,生动而丰富地描绘了他自由、勇敢的一生。儿童文学*荣誉 国际安徒生奖 获得者克劳斯 恩西卡特则通过精美绝伦的插图,还原给了大小读者一个群情激荡的中世纪传奇时代,让你仿佛身临其境,置身于约翰 古登堡的印刷工作室之中。
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。
《万有引力之虹》是后现代主义文学中的经典之作,在世界20世纪文学史上有着独特的地位,曾引起巨大争议。这部巨著故事情节复杂,梦境一般的幻想中充满了扑朔迷离、错综复杂的交叉关系,五花八门、古怪零乱的叙述,似是而非的议论以及物理学、火箭工程学、高等数学、心理学、国际政治、异常性爱的描写。小说的背景是第二次世界大战,德军的V-2火箭频袭伦敦,英美谍报机关发现美国的一位情报军官发生性行为的地方往往是火箭的落点,便对这种现象进行研究,由此吸引和牵连了许多人和事。
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.
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.
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.
《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.
上海美术电影制片厂著的《大闹天宫(全新图文版)》是 中国经典动画 全新图文版 系列中的一本,讲述了:花果山猴王孙悟空为了得到一件趁手的兵器,向东海龙王 借 走了龙宫的定海神针 如意金箍棒。龙王气急败坏,上天去状告孙悟空。玉帝派太白金星诱骗孙悟空上天,封为 弼马温 ,趁机将他软禁起来。孙悟空得知被骗后,砸碎御马监,飞回花果山,并自封齐天大圣。玉帝派李天王带领天兵前去征讨,却被孙悟空打得落荒而逃。玉帝再次派太白金星去招安孙悟空,假意封他为 齐天大圣 ,命他掌管蟠桃园。不料孙悟空大闹天宫
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
1939年9月1日,德国入侵波兰的时候,林格伦决心在日记中记录战事的进展。她以为战争很快就会结束,没想到 1946年新年她才搁笔。 写日记的前一天,她还和朋友坐在瓦萨公园抱怨希特勒,不相信战争真的会打起来,但是第二天战争变成了现实。她开始储备肥皂、面包和黄油 她日记的承载量,远远超出了家庭生活的范畴 战争日记一般由参谋部和前线军队里的人来写,作战指挥地图、战斗故事和哨所观察构成将来书写历史的根据。让人惊奇的是,32岁的林格伦,这位两个孩子的妈妈、办公室秘书竟严肃认真地承担起同样的任务。不过,她*初的想法仅仅是想记住所发生的事情。
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.
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
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?
《罗森克兰茨与吉尔德斯特恩已死》是斯托帕版的《等待戈多》。