Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities.

Starred Review. Grade 7–10—Exploring Indian identity, both self and tribal, Alexie's first young adult novel is a semiautobiographical chronicle of Arnold Spirit, aka Junior, a Spokane Indian from Wellpinit, WA. The bright 14-year-old was born with water on the brain, is regularly the target of bullies, and loves to draw. He says, "I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats." He expects disaster when he transfers from the reservation school to the rich, white school in Reardan, but soon finds himself making friends with both geeky and popular students and starting on the basketball team. Meeting his old classmates on the court, Junior grapples with questions about what constitutes one's community, identity, and tribe. The daily struggles of reservation life and the tragic deaths of the protagonist's grandmother, dog, and older sister would be all but unbearable without the humor and resilience of spirit with which Junior faces the world. The many characters, on and off the rez, with whom he has dealings are portrayed with compassion and verve, particularly the adults in his extended family. Forney's simple pencil cartoons fit perfectly within the story and reflect the burgeoning artist within Junior. Reluctant readers can even skim the pictures and construct their own story based exclusively on Forney's illustrations. The teen's determination to both improve himself and overcome poverty, despite the handicaps of birth, circumstances, and race, delivers a positive message in a low-key manner. Alexie's tale of self-discovery is a first purchase for all libraries.—Chris Shoemaker, New York Public Library Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Arnold Spirit, a goofy-looking dork with a decent jumpshot, spends his time lamenting life on the "poor-ass" Spokane Indian reservation, drawing cartoons (which accompany, and often provide more insight than, the narrative), and, along with his aptly named pal Rowdy, laughing those laughs over anything and nothing that affix best friends so intricately together. When a teacher pleads with Arnold to want more, to escape the hopelessness of the rez, Arnold switches to a rich white school and immediately becomes as much an outcast in his own community as he is a curiosity in his new one. He weathers the typical teenage indignations and triumphs like a champ but soon faces far more trying ordeals as his home life begins to crumble and decay amidst the suffocating mire of alcoholism on the reservation. Alexie's humor and prose are easygoing and well suited to his young audience, and he doesn't pull many punches as he levels his eye at stereotypes both warranted and inapt. A few of the plotlines fade to gray by the end, but this ultimately affirms the incredible power of best friends to hurt and heal in equal measure. Younger teens looking for the strength to lift themselves out of rough situations would do well to start here. Chipman, Ian --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. "Sure to resonate and lift spirits of all ages for years to come." ( ) "This is a gem of a book....may be [Sherman Alexie's] best work yet." ( ) "Nimbly blends sharp with unapologetic emotion....fluid narration deftly mingles raw feelings with funny, sardonic insight." ( ) "Deftly taps into the human desire to stand out while fitting in." ( ) "[Alexie] has created an endearing teen protagonist in his own likeness and placed him in the here and now." ( ) "Exceptionally good....Arnold is a wonderful character." ( ) "Fierce observations and sharp sense of humor...hilarious language." ( ) "Alexie's humor and prose are easygoing and well suited to his young audience." ( ) "Few writers are more masterful than Sherman Alexie." ( ) "What emerges most strongly is Junior's uncompromising determination to press on while leaving nothing important behind." ( ) "The line between dramatic monologue, verse novel, and standup comedy gets unequivocally-and hilariously and triumphantly-bent in this novel." ( ) "Realistic and fantastical and funny and tragic-all at the same time." ( ) "Breathtakingly honest, funny, profane, sad....will stay with readers." ( ) "A Native American equivalent of Angela's Ashes." ( )

《假如给我三天光明》由海伦•凯勒的《我的生活》、《走出黑暗》、《老师》三本书以及发表在美国《大西洋月刊》上的著名散文《假如给我三天光明》编译而成，完整系统地介绍了海伦•凯勒丰富、生动、真实而伟大的一生，许多文字还是第一次与中国读者见面。海伦•凯勒一生一共写了14部著作。《我的生活》是她的处女作。作品一发表；立即在美国引起了轰动，被称为“世界文学史上无与伦比的杰作”，出版的版本超过百余种，在世界上产生了巨大的影响。 20世纪，一个独特的生命个体以其勇敢的方式震撼了世界，她——海伦•凯勒，一个生活在黑暗中却又给人类带来光明的女性，一个度过了生命的88个春秋，却熬过了87年无光、无声、无语的孤绝岁月的弱女子。 然而，正是这么一个幽闭在盲聋哑世界里的人。竟然毕业于哈佛大学德克利夫学院；并用生命的全部力量处处奔走，建起了一家家慈善机构，为残疾人造福，被美国《时代周刊》评选为20世纪美国十大英雄偶像。 创造这一奇迹，全靠一颗不屈不挠的心。海伦接受了生命的挑战，用爱心去拥抱世界，以惊人的毅力面对困境，终于在黑暗中找到了人生的光明面，最后又把慈爱的双手伸向全世界。 ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED--BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The extraordinary account of Helen Keller's struggle to overcome the challenges of being deaf and blind--a masterpiece of modern biography. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON 点击链接进入中文版： 假如给我三天光明

《美学经典选读(英文影印版)》主要内容：学习西方人文科学的理想方法是从一开始就面对经典原文，这样可以尽量避免诸多转述，减少讹传。北大西学影印丛书首先推出的哲学系列涵盖了一般意义上的哲学的主要分支，均经相关领域的著名学者层甄选，以求能系统全面地满足相关专业学生学习西方哲学。这套丛书均由世界著名高等教育出版机构汤姆林学习出版集团出品，并充分体现其一贯的简易精严的风格，是优秀的入门教材。

在线阅读本书 YOU CAN GO AFTER THE JOB YOU WANT...AND GET IT! YOU CAN TAKE THE JOB YOU HAVE...AND IMPROVE IT! YOU CAN TAKE ANY SITUATION YOU'RE IN...AND MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU! For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this previously revised and updated bestseller is available in trade paperback for the first time to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next century! Learn: * THREE FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE * THE SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU * THE TWELVE WAYS TO WIN PEOPLE TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING * THE NINE WAYS TO CHANGE PEOPLE WITHOUT AROUSING RESENTMENT

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world.

But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential.

Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.

An eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the United States China's political and economic growth in the past three decades is one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The country has undergone a remarkable transformation on a scale similar to that of the Industrial Revolution in the West. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. As an organization alone, the Party is a phenomenon of unique scale and power. Its membership surpasses seventy-three million, and it does more than just rule a country. The Party not only has a grip on every aspect of government, from the largest, richest cities to the smallest far-flung villages in Tibet and Xinjiang, it also has a hold on all official religions, the media, and the military. The Party presides over large, wealthy state-owned businesses, and it exercises control over the selection of senior executives of all government companies, many of which are in the top tier of the Fortune 500 list. In The Party, Richard McGregor delves deeply into China's inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military, and how it keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Party's decisions have a global impact, yet the CPC remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law, unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the world's only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is steadfastly poised to think the worst of the West. In this provocative and illuminating account, Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China's Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future.

《菊与刀(英文)》内容简介：“菊”是日本皇室家徽，“刀”是武家文化的象征。《菊与刀(英文)》揭示了日本人的本质性格，亦即日本文化的双重性。作者用了一串矛盾的文字来形容他们，“黩武而又爱美；倨傲自尊而又彬彬有礼；顽梗不化而又柔弱善变；驯服而又不愿受人摆布；忠贞而又易于叛变；勇敢而又懦弱；保守而又十分欢迎新的生活方式”，足以说明日本人性格和日本文化的双重性。《菊与刀(英文)》一书名被定为“菊与刀”，乃尔。菊、刀，两种充满强烈对比的符号组合在一起，成为日本独特的文化气质。

Take a trip back in time and find out what life in Ancient Rome was really like. From gladiators and giant baths to foreign wars and fabulous villas, let your child discover what the Roman world was like for both its citizens and slaves. Fantastic facts and dramatic photographs will bring Ancient Rome to life and inspire your child with a love of learning and discovery. It is brilliant for homework and school projects, or just for fun!

A prince imprisoned - a country in peril. Narnia... where giants wreak havoc.... where evil weaves a spell... where enchantment rules. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, a noble band of friends are sent to rescue a prince held captive. But their mission to Underland brings them face-to-face with an evil more beautiful and more deadly than they ever expected.

A voyage to the very ends of the world. Narnia... where a dragon awakens... where stars walk the earth... where anything can happen. A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail father and farther from charted waters, they discover that their quest is more than they imagined and that the world's end is only the beginning.

The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventure.

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment -- and redemption.

Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last ...even getting there is an adventure in itself! The three firm friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione, are soon immersed in the daily round of Potions, Herbology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Quidditch. But then horrible and mysterious things begin to happen. Harry keeps hearing strange voices, sinister and dark messages appear on the wall, and then Ron's sister Ginny disappears...

《永别了,武器(英文版)》内容简介：世界文学名著表现了作者描述的特定时代的文化。阅读这些名著可以领略著者流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画，让读者如同置身当时的历史文化之中。为此，我们将这套精心编辑的“名著典藏”奉献给广大读者。我们找来了专门研究西方历史、西方文化的专家学者，请教了专业的翻译人员，精心挑选了这些可以代表西方文学的著作，并听取了一些国外专门研究文学的朋友的建议，不删节、不做任何人为改动，严格按照原著的风格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，让读者能享受纯正的英文名著。

1、《佃农理论(英语原著·中文引言)》经济学家张五常现代合约经济学的开山之作。随着时间推移其重要性越来越大，书中诸多精彩章节也成了现代新制度经济学的经典之作。 2、张五常把产权及交易费用观念应用在台湾的土地改革上，不仅推翻了传统的理论，而且为佃农理论的研究开创了新的视角。 3、张五常从个案研究中引申出一般性的结论，不仅为现代新制度经济学的形成与发展奠定了坚实的基础，而且也为现代经济学的研究在方法上开启了活水源头。 4、《佃农理论(英语原著·中文引言)》不仅具有理论上的创新性与深入性，还在于文字优美、格式规范，成了不少经济学学子写作的典范或范文。

《蒙田随笔集(英文版)》内容简介：蒙田是与培根、莎士比亚齐名的世界文豪,他的随笔素有“生活的哲学”的美誉。随笔这一文体在西方由蒙田开山奠基,受其影响的作家举不胜举,在哲学家中就有帕斯卡、笛卡儿、伏尔泰、狄德罗、卢梭等,甚是还有英国不朽的剧作家莎士比亚。 自青年时代起,蒙田即在波尔多祖居的城堡中精读普鲁塔克、塞内加、塔西陀等古代大家之作,此后虽名动天下,博得法王亨利四世的数度造访,仍孜孜不倦地以读书、思考为乐事。蒙田是剖析各民族文化、风俗的饱学之士,是人类情感的冷峻的研究者,文笔清丽、简朴,思致隽永,读者不禁深深陶醉于含英咀华的无上乐境。季羡林先生曾用“零金碎玉”四字评点蒙田于字里行间向世人昭示的人生真谛。