New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Price: £28.00
Publication Date: 30/11/2006
Publisher’s description:
Collect Doyle’s fifty-six classic short stories,
arranged in the order in which they appeared in
late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century book editions, in a set
complemented 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:11/10/2006
Brief description:
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 biology 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:02/09/2006
Brief description:
On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman
raced to the world Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or
dead. Once she was found safe---in her school at the foot of the burning
towers---he returned home, to mediate(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(劫机) on 9.11 and the following hijacking of those events”
by America.
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Price: £14.00
Publication Date:07/10/2006
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.
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Price: £20.99
Publication Date:11/08/2006
Brief description:
Camping in the garden, riding bikes through the woods,
climbing trees, picking wildflowers, running through piles of autumn leaves…
these are the things childhood memories are made of. But for a whole generation
of today’s children the pleasures of a free-range childhood are missing, and
their indoor habits contribute to obesity, attention disorder and childhood
depression. This book shows how our children have become increasingly distanced
from nature, why this matters and how we can make a difference. Richard Louv is
chairman of the Children and Nature Network and co-chair of the National Forum
on Children and Nature. He is the author of seven other books and has written
for newspapers and magazines including the New York Times and the Washington
Post.
1.Who is the writer of the latest book published among
the four books?
A.Arthur Conan
Doyle B.Daniel Libeskind
C.Art
Spiegelman D.Anita Shreve
2.If one wants to know something about Victorian
society, he or she may read____.
A.Light on Snow B.In the Shadow
of No Towers
C.Breaking
Ground D.New Annotated
Sherlock Holmes
3.Which of the following refers to tragedies?
A.Light on Snow & Breaking Ground
B.Light on Snow
& In the Shadow of No Towers
C.In the Shadow
of No Towers & Breaking Ground
D.New Annotated
Sherlock Holmes & In the Shadow of No Towers
4.Which book is based on a real big event?
A.Breaking
Ground B.In the Shadow
of No Towers
C.Light on Snow D.Last Child in
The Woods
5.Who has also written for newspapers and magazines
according to the text?
A.Arthur Conan
Doyle. B.Daniel
Libeskind
C.Art
Spiegelman D.Richard Louv