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从地中海到黄河——希腊化文明与丝绸之路【套装全六册】【第四分册】【中华书局出品】
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公元前334年，马其顿国王亚历山大以希腊联军统帅的身份，发动了对东邻波斯帝国的征服。经过十年征战，建立了一个横跨亚欧非三大洲的大帝国，从东地中海到印度河的广大区域都处在他的统治之下。亚历山大一路上建立了很多希腊式的城市，推行希腊式的政治制度、文化和生活方式。公元前323年，亚历山大猝然离世，这个帝国迅速土崩瓦解，被他的部将瓜分，最终形成了三个希腊化王国，希腊—马其顿人对东方的统治得以延续，并由此形成了“希腊化世界”。在广袤的区域内，希腊文化与东方文化长期触，相互适应、相互融合，从而孕育了“希腊化文明”。存续时间，大致始于公元前334年亚历山大东征，结束于公元前后，时间上大致对应于中国的战国后期至西汉时期。 公元前138年，汉武帝为了对抗匈奴，派张骞出使西域寻找大月氏。张骞历尽千辛万苦，十年之后到达中亚，这一“凿空”之举标志着延续千年的丝绸之路的正式通。从表面看，希腊化文明与丝绸之路似乎是两个互不相干的研究领域，但事实上二者之间有着紧密的内在逻辑关系。 《从地中海到黄河——希腊化文明与丝绸之路》立足全球史视角，聚焦希腊化文明与丝绸之路的关系，以希腊化城市、钱币、艺术向丝路重镇、钱币和艺术的转化演变作为研究重，展现上下千年间欧亚非大陆上东西方诸文明交流互鉴的壮阔图景，揭示了希腊化文明与丝绸之路在时间与空间、形式与内涵、交流与融合、历史与现实等多方面的联系，在一些未知的领域或长期争议的具体问题上取得了重大的展，在国际学界发出了中国学者自己的声音，所讨论的地理空间与中国倡议的“一带一路”所覆盖的范围有诸多重合之处，具有直的历史借鉴作用。 本书共有6卷，200多万字，图片1500多幅，由40多位国内外专家合作撰写，是中外学者在历史、考古、艺术等多学科领域展合作研究的重要成果。 第1卷《从亚历山大到张骞——希腊化世界与丝绸之路通》，属于历史背景研究，重论证希腊化世界和丝绸之路的时空关系。 第2卷《从亚历山大里亚到撒马尔罕——希腊化城市与丝路重镇》，主题为希腊化城市向丝路重镇的过渡。 第3卷《从马其顿到粟特——希腊化钱币与丝路钱币》，主题为希腊化钱币向丝路钱币的演变。 第4卷《从阿波罗到佛陀——希腊化艺术与丝路艺术》，重是希腊化艺术的起源、发展、演变及其在丝路沿线的传播、与当地艺术的融合。 第5卷《从希腊到中国——希腊化文明遗产在中国》，重梳理与分析中国古代文献中的希腊化文明信息与中国境内的希腊化文明遗产遗迹。 第6卷《丝绸之路上的希腊化文明遗产》，共分为六部分，基本对应于前五卷主题，既是对希腊化文明与丝路研究的深化，也是对相关领域的扩展和延伸。 本书在注重学术性的同时，也兼顾到历史知识的普及。本书对于那些对丝绸之路和古代中西文化交流尤有兴趣的普通读者，则可提供“窥一斑而知全豹”的窗口。
张其成全解黄帝内经(全五册)(灵枢,素问)
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《黄帝内经》是*部中医学经典，*部养生学的宝典，也是*部生命的百科全书。托名黄帝，以黄帝与大臣对话的形式撰写，主体部分成书于汉代，通行版本一共162 篇，其中《素问》81 篇，《灵枢》81 篇。《黄帝内经》提倡“阴阳调和，五行致中”，在治病方面主张求本，未病先防；在养生方面，主张“内求”激发人体潜能、提升免疫力和抗病能力，常保身心健康。 《张其成全解黄帝内经》从哲学、医学、养生学三个维度逐字逐句讲透《黄帝内经》。 一、哲学维度：以周易、儒释道、诸子百家的理念，解密《黄帝内经》蕴含的深厚哲理，“调和致中”的理念不止于调养身心，更有利于认识世界、和谐相融。 二、医学维度：以阴阳五行、五运六气之理，解析人体运行保养的规律，治病求本，调和阴阳，辨证施治，使运转故障的身体恢复健康。 三、养生学维度：法于阴阳，和于术数，向内求，治未病。养护精气神，四季调节，五脏调养，饮食情绪调控，不同体质及性别的养生法。 作者张其成作为国学专家，立足中华传统文化的大背景、大视野，从《易经》及诸子百家的视角，全面展示《黄帝内经》作为一部国学经典的文化魅力；以元典—语译—解读的体例，详细揭示《黄帝内经》的学术思想精华；以国医世家“张一帖”四百年临证经验，解现代人在养生保健方面的困惑。 《张其成全解黄帝内经》为您一道认识生命真相的终极之门，为您找到一条内求外揣的健康长寿之道，从而让您活得健康快乐，活得更好更久！
从地中海到黄河——希腊化文明与丝绸之路【套装全六册】【*分册】【中华书局出品】
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公元前334年，马其顿国王亚历山大以希腊联军统帅的身份，发动了对东邻波斯帝国的征服。经过十年征战，建立了一个横跨亚欧非三大洲的大帝国，从东地中海到印度河的广大区域都处在他的统治之下。亚历山大一路上建立了很多希腊式的城市，推行希腊式的政治制度、文化和生活方式。公元前323年，亚历山大猝然离世，这个帝国迅速土崩瓦解，被他的部将瓜分，最终形成了三个希腊化王国，希腊—马其顿人对东方的统治得以延续，并由此形成了“希腊化世界”。在广袤的区域内，希腊文化与东方文化长期触，相互适应、相互融合，从而孕育了“希腊化文明”。存续时间，大致始于公元前334年亚历山大东征，结束于公元前后，时间上大致对应于中国的战国后期至西汉时期。 公元前138年，汉武帝为了对抗匈奴，派张骞出使西域寻找大月氏。张骞历尽千辛万苦，十年之后到达中亚，这一“凿空”之举标志着延续千年的丝绸之路的正式通。从表面看，希腊化文明与丝绸之路似乎是两个互不相干的研究领域，但事实上二者之间有着紧密的内在逻辑关系。 《从地中海到黄河——希腊化文明与丝绸之路》立足全球史视角，聚焦希腊化文明与丝绸之路的关系，以希腊化城市、钱币、艺术向丝路重镇、钱币和艺术的转化演变作为研究重，展现上下千年间欧亚非大陆上东西方诸文明交流互鉴的壮阔图景，揭示了希腊化文明与丝绸之路在时间与空间、形式与内涵、交流与融合、历史与现实等多方面的联系，在一些未知的领域或长期争议的具体问题上取得了重大的展，在国际学界发出了中国学者自己的声音，所讨论的地理空间与中国倡议的“一带一路”所覆盖的范围有诸多重合之处，具有直的历史借鉴作用。 本书共有6卷，200多万字，图片1500多幅，由40多位国内外专家合作撰写，是中外学者在历史、考古、艺术等多学科领域展合作研究的重要成果。 第1卷《从亚历山大到张骞——希腊化世界与丝绸之路通》，属于历史背景研究，重论证希腊化世界和丝绸之路的时空关系。 第2卷《从亚历山大里亚到撒马尔罕——希腊化城市与丝路重镇》，主题为希腊化城市向丝路重镇的过渡。 第3卷《从马其顿到粟特——希腊化钱币与丝路钱币》，主题为希腊化钱币向丝路钱币的演变。 第4卷《从阿波罗到佛陀——希腊化艺术与丝路艺术》，重是希腊化艺术的起源、发展、演变及其在丝路沿线的传播、与当地艺术的融合。 第5卷《从希腊到中国——希腊化文明遗产在中国》，重梳理与分析中国古代文献中的希腊化文明信息与中国境内的希腊化文明遗产遗迹。 第6卷《丝绸之路上的希腊化文明遗产》，共分为六部分，基本对应于前五卷主题，既是对希腊化文明与丝路研究的深化，也是对相关领域的扩展和延伸。 本书在注重学术性的同时，也兼顾到历史知识的普及。本书对于那些对丝绸之路和古代中西文化交流尤有兴趣的普通读者，则可提供“窥一斑而知全豹”的窗口。
从地中海到黄河——希腊化文明与丝绸之路【套装全六册】【第六分册】【中华书局出品】
￥99.80
公元前334年，马其顿国王亚历山大以希腊联军统帅的身份，发动了对东邻波斯帝国的征服。经过十年征战，建立了一个横跨亚欧非三大洲的大帝国，从东地中海到印度河的广大区域都处在他的统治之下。亚历山大一路上建立了很多希腊式的城市，推行希腊式的政治制度、文化和生活方式。公元前323年，亚历山大猝然离世，这个帝国迅速土崩瓦解，被他的部将瓜分，最终形成了三个希腊化王国，希腊—马其顿人对东方的统治得以延续，并由此形成了“希腊化世界”。在广袤的区域内，希腊文化与东方文化长期触，相互适应、相互融合，从而孕育了“希腊化文明”。存续时间，大致始于公元前334年亚历山大东征，结束于公元前后，时间上大致对应于中国的战国后期至西汉时期。 公元前138年，汉武帝为了对抗匈奴，派张骞出使西域寻找大月氏。张骞历尽千辛万苦，十年之后到达中亚，这一“凿空”之举标志着延续千年的丝绸之路的正式通。从表面看，希腊化文明与丝绸之路似乎是两个互不相干的研究领域，但事实上二者之间有着紧密的内在逻辑关系。 《从地中海到黄河——希腊化文明与丝绸之路》立足全球史视角，聚焦希腊化文明与丝绸之路的关系，以希腊化城市、钱币、艺术向丝路重镇、钱币和艺术的转化演变作为研究重，展现上下千年间欧亚非大陆上东西方诸文明交流互鉴的壮阔图景，揭示了希腊化文明与丝绸之路在时间与空间、形式与内涵、交流与融合、历史与现实等多方面的联系，在一些未知的领域或长期争议的具体问题上取得了重大的展，在国际学界发出了中国学者自己的声音，所讨论的地理空间与中国倡议的“一带一路”所覆盖的范围有诸多重合之处，具有直的历史借鉴作用。 本书共有6卷，200多万字，图片1500多幅，由40多位国内外专家合作撰写，是中外学者在历史、考古、艺术等多学科领域展合作研究的重要成果。 第1卷《从亚历山大到张骞——希腊化世界与丝绸之路通》，属于历史背景研究，重论证希腊化世界和丝绸之路的时空关系。 第2卷《从亚历山大里亚到撒马尔罕——希腊化城市与丝路重镇》，主题为希腊化城市向丝路重镇的过渡。 第3卷《从马其顿到粟特——希腊化钱币与丝路钱币》，主题为希腊化钱币向丝路钱币的演变。 第4卷《从阿波罗到佛陀——希腊化艺术与丝路艺术》，重是希腊化艺术的起源、发展、演变及其在丝路沿线的传播、与当地艺术的融合。 第5卷《从希腊到中国——希腊化文明遗产在中国》，重梳理与分析中国古代文献中的希腊化文明信息与中国境内的希腊化文明遗产遗迹。 第6卷《丝绸之路上的希腊化文明遗产》，共分为六部分，基本对应于前五卷主题，既是对希腊化文明与丝路研究的深化，也是对相关领域的扩展和延伸。 本书在注重学术性的同时，也兼顾到历史知识的普及。本书对于那些对丝绸之路和古代中西文化交流尤有兴趣的普通读者，则可提供“窥一斑而知全豹”的窗口。
新印象 Premiere短视频拍摄+剪辑+* 关键技术
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本书是关于视频剪辑及制作的教程，主要讲解Premiere软件的操作和使用方法，搭配各种类型的案例教学来介绍视频的制作和剪辑方法。本书内容循序渐，从基础到阶，确保读者在学习完本书之后，掌握向更高专业水平发展的基础知识，能够制作出高质量的视频。全书共10章，第1～3章是对视频制作的相关知识行介绍，讲解Premiere软件的基础操作和视频剪辑的方法。以及视频制作的基本流程；第4～9章是对Premiere软件的操作行细分讲解，包含对关键帧、文本图形、视频转场、视频效果、调色、音频插件的介绍；第10章为大型案例效果展示，主要通过实践案例的教学视频讲解案例的制作过程，引领读者综合所学制作各类型高质量的视频。 本书适合视频创作者、自媒体从业者、新媒体运营者、影视爱好者学习使用，也可以作为中、高等院校相关专业和培训机构的辅导教材。
公文写作金句速查宝典:诗词、佳句、场景用法
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为了达到在公文写作中“让没有古语功底的人快速准确地引用古语”的目的，《公文写作金句速查宝典：诗词、佳句、场景用法》的结构、内容等各个方面都颇费思量。 一是顺藤摸瓜。《公文写作金句速查宝典：诗词、佳句、场景用法》设置了全面而明确的索引，读者能够在短时间内，根据所写的内容轻而易举地找到与之相匹配的古诗文佳句。 二是雅俗共赏。《公文写作金句速查宝典：诗词、佳句、场景用法》所选条目，有的耳熟能详，用之全场了然；有的生僻鲜见，用之惊艳四座。用时可以根据场合、听众等因素，选择难的或易的。 三是条分缕析。每一个条目下面都有三个部分：出处、释义和用法提示，为读者提供了基本的“应知应会”，既不会耽误时间，又能满足你的需要。 四是裨补缺漏。在出处部分，《公文写作金句速查宝典：诗词、佳句、场景用法》会指出一些常识性的错误，并予以专业性的解答。 五是旁征博引。在用法提示部分，《公文写作金句速查宝典：诗词、佳句、场景用法》围绕条目做了一些适当、有趣的延伸，旨在帮助读者提升公文写作能力的同时，扩展知识面，增强可读性。
Collins Introducing English to Young Children
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A practical teacher guide book for teaching young children to read and write in English. Introducing English to Young Children: Reading and Writing, is a practical guide book, showing teachers how to use the highly-motivating Playful Approach when starting to teach reading and writing to pre-school and lower primary-aged children. There are ideas for creative and meaningful projects and help for teachers to plan, manage and assess lessons. The book explores how children move towards becoming autonomous learners using strategies they have acquired in their first language.
Sacred Games
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Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India.Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police force, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But "the silky Sikh" is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip-off as to the secret hide-out of the legendary boss of G-Company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. Vikram Chandra's keenly anticipated new novel is a magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth-century fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
Sound
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Sound is the stand-alone companion to Alexandra Duncan's acclaimed debut novel Salvage, which was praised by internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins as "brilliant, feminist science fiction." For fans of Beth Revis, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica.As a child, Ava's adopted sister, Miyole, watched her mother take to the stars, piloting her own ship from Earth to space making deliveries. Now a teen herself, Miyole is finally living her dream as a research assistant on her very first space voyage. If she plays her cards right, she could even be given permission to conduct her own research and experiments in her own habitat lab on the flight home. But when her ship saves a rover that has been viciously attacked by looters and kidnappers, Miyole, along with a rescued rover girl named Cassia, embarks on a mission to rescue Cassia's abducted brother, and that changes the course of Miyole's life forever. Harrowing, provocative, and stunning, Sound begins roughly a decade after the action in the author's critically acclaimed Salvage, and is a powerful stand-alone companion.
Twinmaker
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M. T. Anderson meets Cory Doctorow in this teen debut from #1 New York Times bestseller Sean Williams, who also coauthors the Troubletwisters series with Garth Nix.When a coded note promises improvement—the chance to change your body any way you want, making it stronger, taller, more beautiful—Clair thinks it's too good to be true, but her best friend, Libby, falls into a deadly trap.With the help of the school freak and a mysterious stranger, Clair races against the clock and around the world to save Libby, even as every step draws her deeper into a deadly world of cover-ups and conspiracies.Action and danger fuel this near-future tale of technology, identity, and the lengths one girl will go to save her best friend.
Wabi Sabi Love
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Love. It right up there with air, food, and water as the most necessary of ingredients for existence. And yet it is one of the hardest things to find, and perhaps an even harder thing to hold on to. The truth is you’re not perfect, and neither is your partner. But you can be perfectly imperfect together. In Wabi Sabi Love , international bestselling author and relationship expert Arielle Ford applies the wisdom of Wabi Sabi the ancient Japanese idea of illuminating the beauty in imperfection to love relationships. Wabi Sabi Love is the practice of exploring, embracing, and cherishing the quirks, irritations, and limitations that make you and your partner unique and that form your shared history as a couple. Wabi Sabi Love provides the tools to see yourself, your partner, and your partnership in an entirely new light, develop a deep and profound appreciation for each other, and experience more balance, harmony, and joy in your relationship than ever before. Wabi Sabi Love teaches you to: turn conflict into connection and differences into mutual passions move from “annoyed” to “enjoyed” establish new beliefs and habits that better serve your relationship cultivate humor, humility, and generosity to diffuse those moments when you would normally retreat or slip into tired judgments, criticisms, or resentments Using real-life stories of couples who applied Wabi Sabi and found their relationships transformed, Wabi Sabi Love can revolutionize your relationship whether you’re navigating financial challenges, raising children, caring for aging parents, coping with a seemingly insurmountable betrayal, or just facing mundane frustrations and everyday stressors. By shifting the focus from what wrong to what right, Wabi Sabi Love reveals a pathway to true love and your happily ever after.
The Other Side of Normal
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Psychiatry has ignored the normal. The focus on defining abnormal behavior has obscured what turns out to be a more fundamental question how does the biology of the brain give rise to the mind, which in turn gives rise to everything we care about: thoughts, feelings, desires, and relationships In The Other Side of Normal , Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller shows us that understanding what the mind was designed to do in the first place demystifies mental illness and builds a new foundation for defining psychiatric disorders from autism to depression. Smoller argues there are no bright lines between normal and abnormal. Psychiatric disorders are variations of the same brain systems that evolved to help us solve the challenges of everyday life. How do we become who we areSmoller explains where our personalities come from, and how the temperaments we had as infants actually stay with us into adulthood. Why do we choose to date, love, and marry the people we doWhy do some of us form healthy relationships while others form unstable onesOur relationships are shaped by the biology that drives two imperatives: maternal-child bonding and child-parent attachment. Along the way, Smoller tackles an even greater question what do we mean by "normal" as he explores the puzzles behind the epidemics of multiple personalities and koro, the shocking phobia that one's penis is shrinking. He also looks at the controversial history of psychiatric classification and the explosive debates over how much early experiences influence our minds and to what degree genetics affect our temperaments, personalities, and emotional lives. Throughout this examination, Smoller explores the hidden sides of such questions as: How are trust and love rooted in biologyHow much does sexual attraction stem from biology rather than cultureAnd what can the scientific study of normal behavior tell us about what it means to be human Based on the author's groundbreaking research and personal experiences treating psychological disorders, The Other Side of Normal changes the way we think about the human condition.
Food: Your Miracle Medicine
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Food -- Your Miracle Medicine is the breakthrough book on food and health for the nineties. This comprehensive guide, based on more than 10,000 scientific studies, reveals how you can use the extraordinary powers of food to prevent and alleviate such common maladies as headaches and hay fever, as well as to ward off major killers, including heart disease and cancer. Jean Carper, the bestselling author of The Food Pharmacy, has now translated the amazing new discoveries about the medical powers of food into practical advice and information that you can use every day to conquer disease, increase your mental energy, and live longer.A carrot a day could slash your risk of stroke by 70 percent.Ginger can stop migraine headaches and nausea.Half an avocado a day can dramatically improve your blood cholesterol.Brazil nut may improve your mood.Brazil nuts may improve your mood.Tea helps prevent stroke, heart disease, and cancer.A food allergy may be the cause of your fatigue.
Illegal
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A promise.Quincea?era.A promise that we would be together on my fifteenth birthday . . .Instead, Nora is on a desperate journey far away from home. When her father leaves their beloved Mexico in search of work, Nora stays behind. She fights to make sense of her loss while living in poverty—waiting for her father's return and a better day. When the letters and money stop coming, Nora decides that she and her mother must look for him in Texas. After a frightening experience crossing the border, the two are all alone in a strange place. Now, Nora must find the strength to survive while aching for small comforts: friends, a new school, and her precious quincea?era.Bettina Restrepo's gripping, deeply hopeful debut novel captures the challenges of one girl's unique yet universal immigrant experience.
Spiritual Partnership
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This book is about our new relationships. A new and surprising world is emerging that requires each of us to explore the sources of our love and cultivate them and the inner sources of all that prevents us from loving (our fears) and heal them. Our evolution has taken a new path, and our relationships are changing in unexpected and dramatic ways. We are evolving beyond the limits of our five senses and encountering more expanded experiences of ourselves and our world than were previously possible. Where once our perception was confined to what we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell, we are now increasingly able to access data that these senses cannot detect. This expanded perception is forever altering our experiences of ourselves, our world, and our relationships. Our evolution now presents us at each moment with a profound choice: we can pretend that our lives and the world are not changing and continue to relate to one another as before, or we can use our relationships to transform ourselves into authentically powerful, loving individuals.In Spiritual Partnership, bestselling author Gary Zukav reveals a profound new relationship dynamic that enables us to reach our full potential and create authentic power—the fulfilling and joyful life that is calling to us all. Spiritual partnerships are not only for couples in marriage; they can be created anywhere two or more individuals decide to engage as equals for the purpose of spiritual development.Filled with poignant examples and practical guidance, including specific guidelines, Spiritual Partnership empowers and enables us to explore our emotions, our intentions, our choices, and our intuition and to use them to create profound spiritual growth. The world is changing around us and within us, and Spiritual Partnership is the road map to that change.
Transcendent
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Perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series, this action-packed, undeniably romantic saga that began with Starling and intensified in Descendant comes to an epic conclusion in Transcendent.On a terrace high above the streets of Manhattan, Mason Starling holds the fate of the world—and of her love, Fennrys—in her hands. For it has all come down to this. Mason Starling has completed her father's vision and become a Valkyrie—a chooser of the slain and the one who will ultimately bring about the end of the world.But she is determined that what happens next is not what the prophecy foretold , or what her father has planned, or what the fates have already decided. What happens next is up to Mason and Fennrys. Or is it?
There Is No Long Distance Now
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In these forty life-altering, life-affirming, and extremely short short stories, the award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye proposes that no matter how great the divide between friends, siblings, life and death, classmates, enemies, happiness and misery, war and peace, breakfast and lunch, parent and child, country and city, there is, in fact, no long distance. Not anymore.
Harper Design
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Rudyard Kipling’s classic collection of fables gets reimagined in this deluxe four-color collectible volume, featuring stunning new artwork and nine interactive elements crafted by MinaLima Design, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise and the illustrated classic Peter Pan.Since its publication in 1894, Rudyard Kipling’s beloved masterpiece The Jungle Book has been celebrated by generations of readers. Composed of seven tales, each one accompanied by a poem, The Jungle Book introduces a lush, colorful world full of adventure and danger. The first three tales include some of the most charming and unforgettable characters in literature—the man-cub Mowgli, the black panther Bagheera, the wise brown bear Baloo, and the ruthless tiger Shere Khan. The other four tales each tell the story of a different animal, such as the travels of the white seal Kotick; the battle between the courageous mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the deadly cobra Nag; Toomai and the elephant dance; and the camp animals of the queen’s guard.The second volume in Harper Design’s newest series of deluxe reimagined children’s classics, this beautiful unabridged edition takes readers deep into the heart of the Indian jungle with specially commissioned four-color illustrations and nine exclusive interactive features that will delight readers, including a map of the lost Indian city where Mowgli is taken by the monkeys; a trifold detailing the Laws of the Jungle; a spinning dial of the elephant dance; and a map of Kotick’s route to find a new home.Beautifully designed, this keepsake illustrated edition will be treasured by readers of all ages.
The Great Hangover
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Vanity Fair presents 21 true stories of the new hard times Where did all the billions goCommissioned by the editors at Vanity Fair magazine, The Great Hangover is an eye-opening collection of essays on the global economic crisis by fifteen of the most respected contemporary business writers in America, including:Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate) on the atmosphere of uncertainty and fear that preceded the demise of Bear Stearns . . . Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker) on Iceland's bizarre national implosion . . . Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down) on the decline of The New York Times and the threat to the ailing newspaper industry . . . Mark Seal on the defining figure of the seriously tarnished New Gilded Age: the Grand Master of Greed, Bernie Madoff . . . Along with compelling and sometimes hair-raising pieces from a dozen other Vanity Fair contributors on the recent recession's myriad villains and victims and the worldwide impact of the financial downturn.
Between a Heart and a Rock Place
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For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," and "Love Is a Battlefield" becoming anthems for multiple generations of fans. Now, in this intimate and uncompromising memoir, one of the bestselling female rock artists of all time shares the story of her extraordinary career, telling the truth about her life, her struggles, and how she won things her way.From her early days in the New York club scene of the 1970s to headlining sold-out arena tours, Benatar offers a fascinating account of a life spent behind the microphone. As the first female artist ever to be played on MTV, she speaks candidly about the realities of breaking into the boys' club of rock and roll at a time when people everywhere still believed a woman's only place in popular music was as a girlfriend, a groupie, or a sex symbol. And though her fiery edge and aggressive swagger produced instant success, they also led to fights over her image that would linger for years to come.Going backstage and into the studio, Benatar sets the record straight about how her music evolved, illustrating the visionary role that her guitarist, producer, and eventual husband, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, played in combining her classically trained voice with razor-sharp guitar to create her unique hard-rock sound. Together they formed a musical and spiritual bond that would last a lifetime, helping her stay true to herself while avoiding the pitfalls and excesses of rock stardom.Written with the attitude and defiance that embodies Pat Benatar's music, Between a Heart and a Rock Place is a rock-and-roll story unlike any other, a remarkable tale of playing by your own rules, even if that means breaking a fewof theirs.
Our Kind of People
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Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack,Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white communities.
