英文电子书

The history of the feast!  After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors. Of course, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag didn’t know it at the time, but they were making history, celeb

Hiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and what it's meant for the world ever since.

By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the

"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Re

A The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead,

A terrifying attack!

On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died,

On August 25th, 2005, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in history hit the Gulf of Mexico. High winds and rain pummeled coastal communities, including the City of New Orleans, which was left under 15 feet of water in some areas after th

From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not restored until the 1980s, when Americans from all over the

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled

Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet.

The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are human

Learn the story behind the ten laws that have been the guiding light of Judeo-Christian belief.

Not just about Moses, whose origin story leaves open questions, this book looks back at the time when the commandments were written, how the belief in one a

Back in 775 BC, athletes from all over Ancient Greece came together to compete in various games. The contests were held every four years and winning athletes brought honor and respect to their homelands.

The tradition of the Olympic Games faded over ti

The Pedant in the Kitchen is a perfect comfort for anyone who has ever been defeated by a cookbook. The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with

With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infin

This paperback edition has been fully updated to include the 2013 Six Nations and the British and Irish Lions Tour.

What does rugby mean to Wales? Where does the heart of Welsh rugby lie? In Calon, Owen Sheers takes a personal journey into a sport that

Jhumpa Lahiri is among the few contemporary writers being read widely by both mainstream and minority audiences, the general public and academic scholars, in the U.S. and globally. While her works focus on specific ethnic experiences of highly educated, u

Children's acquisition of bilingualism is shown to be something normal, something positive, which can be a rewarding and enriching experience for both children and their parents. Since the book was written with the general reader in mind, it is compo

There are many parents in the world today who have the opportunity to raise their children in two languages, but who are discouraged or dissuaded from doing so, either because they are not sure how to go about it or because of the often conflicting advice

《坏游客：爱与旅行中的不幸》（Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel ），(2020)，Suzanne Roberts著。在这本短文集中，Roberts讲述了她独自游历15个国家的冒险旅程。一路上

作者: Christopher Leonard

书名：The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business《肉贩子：美国食品业的秘密收购》

英文简介：An investigative jour

作者: Peter Thomas Taylor

书名：With Clough《和克拉夫一起》

英文简介：Brian Clough famously remarked, ‘I’m not equipped to manage successfully withou

作者: Caitlin Murray

书名：The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer《国家队：改变足球的女性的内心故事》

英文简介：The U.S. Women’s

作者: Cynthia L. Selfe, Hugh Burns

书名：Technology and Literacy in the 21st Century: The Importance of Paying Attention《21世纪的技术与文化》

英文简介：Part cri

作者: Gail E. Hawisher，Cynthia L. Selfe

书名：Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century: Literate Connections《二十一世纪的九种游戏生活：与文化的联系》

英文简介：Gami

作者: Ian Bogost

书名：Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism《单元运转:电子游戏批判》

英文简介：In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar p

作者: Ian Bogost

书名：How to Talk about Videogames《怎么讨论可视化游戏?》

英文简介：Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new

作者: Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost

书名：Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System《光束竞逐:雅达利视频电脑系统》

英文简介：A study of the relationship betwee

作者: Ian Bogost

书名：How to Do Things with Videogames《如何使用视频游戏做事》

英文简介：In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular c

作者: Yasmin B. Kafai, Quinn Burke, Constance Steinkuehler

书名：Connected Gaming: What Making Video Games Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy《游戏连接世界

作者: Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire Ph.D., Sasha Barab Ph.D.

书名：Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age《游戏、学习与社会:

作者: James Paul Gee

书名：What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy《电子游戏能够教会我们学习和识字》

英文简介：A controversial look at the p

作者：Michael Chabon

书名：Telegraph Avenu《电报大道》

英文简介：Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, fu

作者：Barbara Kingsolver

书名：The Bean Trees(Greer Family #1)《豆树青青》

英文简介：Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the g

作者：Barbara Kingsolver

书名：Pigs in Heaven(Greer Family #2)《天堂里的猪》

英文简介：Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellb

作者：Gilbert Elizabeth

书名：City of Girls《女孩之城》

英文简介：Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York C

作者：John Gray

书名：Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus《男人来自于火星女人来自于金星》

英文简介：Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, a

作者：Timothy Ferriss

书名：The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich《每周工作4小时:逃离朝九晚五,在任何地方生活,加入新富》

英文简介：Fo

作者：Nick Lane

书名：The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is?《重要问题：生活何以如是?》

英文简介：Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex lif

作者：Ian Bogost

书名：How to Talk about Videogames《怎么讨论可视化游戏?》

英文简介：Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new c

作者：Anne-Marie Slaughter

书名：Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family《交易未完：工作与家庭》

英文简介：When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the

作者：Rebecca Herzig

书名：Plucked: A History of Hair Removal《拔毛史》

英文简介：From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America t