'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...'The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe had a magical ability with words, never more so than in The Terrors of the Night, where he mulls over ghosts
「無論你是一位正要著手進行研究的大學生或博士生,Gary Thomas的這本書將會對你產生很大價值。這本書與其他關於如何進行研究的書有相當多的不同:它的內容非常豐富、書寫流暢、涵蓋範圍很廣但卻又能很詳細的說明,整體而言,本書讓人讀來非常愉悅!我強力推薦本書。」 Peter Earley教授Institute of Education, University of London 你正在進行研究嗎?需
The first picture book in an exciting new toddler range by the acclaimed Thomas Flintham.All the animals are running, swimming, splashing and dashing in this colourful rhyming picture book... but wher
The Buddenbrook clan is everything you’d expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family – wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradu
First book-length reference collection of research examining the unique opportunities and challenges presented by task-based language learning and teaching in Asia.
"A bold and expertly plotted page-turner." ―Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of SadieFrom the mind of Kara Thomas, author of The Cheerleaders, comes a new thriller that about the secrets we hide from those we love most―even, maybe, our best friends. What happened that weekend changes everything.THREE BEST FRIENDS, A LAKE HOUSE, A SECRET TRIP ― WHAT COULD GO WRONG?It was supposed to be the perfect prom weekend getaway. But it's clear something terrible happened when Claire wakes up alone and bloodied on a hiking trail with no memory of the past forty-eight hours.Now everyone wants answers―most of all, Claire. She remembers Friday night, but after that . . . nothing. And now Kat and Jesse--her best friends--are missing.What happened on the mountain? And where are Kat and Jesse? Claire knows the answers are buried somewhere in her memory. But as she's learning, everyone has secrets―even her best friends. And she's pretty sure she's not going to like what she remembers.
Thomas Hardy saw himself, first and foremost, as a poet and he composed poetry throughout his prolific and acclaimed novel-writing years. In 1896, dismayed by the criticism he received on publication
**NOW THE WINNER OF THE 2022 BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR AND TWO 2022 BAFTA AWARDS**Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century America. Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent.Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to match his thirst for dominance; George has a gentle, loving soul. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years.When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins an relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector. From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the grea
Thomas Pavittes amazing 1,000 Dot-to-Dot books brought a fresh spirit to a classic pastime, and have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. Now he unveils an even more original and amazing co
The cookbook mold is about to be broken again with a new book (the first since 2012) from America’s most celebrated chef, Thomas Keller―this time focusing on his legendary American fine dining institu
This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give.Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers
卡萊爾在1841年撰著的《論英雄與英雄崇拜》(On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History),是英國維多利亞時代的歐洲甚具影響力的一部書。作者在書中將英雄定義為傳遞神旨予世人之人,除了神或者帝王,先知、教士、詩人、文人、學者、革命家等皆是他所論稱的英雄。如:但丁、莎士比亞為詩人英雄;約翰生、盧梭、彭斯為文人英雄等。卡萊爾並於書中提出──穆罕默德之成功在於其對於萬物的真誠,他認為「真誠」是英雄的首要特點。此外,卡萊爾亦曾撰文指責僅有花言巧語的演說家,並無真正的聰明才智。更推崇聖經使人類得到真理與德性的培養,使人生的奧秘的問題得到解答。
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf Hoss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and ov