阅读理解 New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Price:£28 . 00 Publication Date:30/11/2004 Publisher's description Collects Doyle's fifty-six classic short stories arranged in the order in which they appeared in the late nineteenth century book editions in a set complemented(补充)by four novels editor biographies of Doyle Holmes and Watson as well as literary and cultural details about Victorian society. Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind Price:£16 . 00 Publication Date:11/10/2004 Brief introduction This is a book about the adventure life that can offer each of us if we seize it and about the powerful forces of tragedy memory and hope.For Daniel Libeskind life's adventure has been through architecture which he has found has the power to reshape human experience.Although often relating to the past his buildings are about the future.This memoir(自传)of one man's journey brings together history personal experience our physical environment and a fresh international vision. In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman Price:£16 . 00 Publication Date:02/09/2004 Brief introduction On 11th September 2001 Art Spiegelman raced to the World Trade Center not knowing if his daughter Nadja was living or dead.Once she was found safe-in her school at the foot of the burning towers-he returned home to meditate(反省)on the trauma(创伤) and to work on a comic strip(连环漫画). In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman's extraordinary account of“the hijacking”on 9 . 11 and the following hijacking of those events' by America. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve Price:£14 . 00 Publication Date:07/10/2004 Publisher's description This is the 11th novel by Anita Shreve the critically accepted bestseller.A moving story of love and courage and tragedy and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself. |