The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text—for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere.
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the geography of an ancient world, a bestiary of mythical creatures, and a book of cultural and medicinal lore. Illustrated throughout with more than 180 two-color drawings that are so sinuous they move on the page, it is a work for lovers of fantasy and mythology, ancient knowledge, fabulous beasts, and inspired art.
The beings catalogued within these pages come from the regions of the known world, from the mountains and seas, the Great Wastelands, and the Lands Within the Seas that became China. They include spirits and deities and all sorts of strange creatures—dragons and phoenixes, hybrid beasts, some with human features, some hideous or with a call like wood splitting, or that portend drought or flood or bounty; others whose flesh cures disease or fends off nightmares, or whose pelt guarantees many progeny.
Drawn from The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Fantastic Creatures is the work of two members of China's millennial generation, a young scholar and writer once known as the youngest "Genius of Chinese Cultural Studies" and an inspired illustrator trained in China and the United States, who together managed to communicate with the soul of a 4,000-year-old beast and have brought forth its strange beauty. Their work has been rendered into English by the foremost translator of modern Chinese literature in the West.

An "Upanisad" is a teaching session with a guru, and the thirteen texts of the "Principal Upanis.ads"—which comprise this volume—form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed beginning around the eighth century bce, the Upanisads have been central to the development of Hinduism, exploring its central doctrines: rebirth, karma, overcoming death, and achieving detachment, equilibrium, and spiritual bliss. Speaking to the reader in direct, unadorned prose or lucid verse, the Upanisads collected here embody humanity’s perennial search for truth and knowledge. Valerie Roebuck’s powerful new translation blends accuracy with readability and retains the oral style of these stirring and profound philosophical explorations.

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the
is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.
The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian.

'Sadopaideia' is a shocking, explicit, classic tale of Sado Masochism at the heart of English high society. Set in London and the Dorset coast, in an era of English history where corporal punishment was freely dispensed, the characters represent the core principles of disobedience, chastisement and compliance. How far is too far? Cecil Prendergast has a problem. He has been selected by Muriel Harcourt and her maid as the third dimension in their relationship. The 'problem' is that Muriel likes to beat Cecil's backside with a bamboo cane. Before long, a new master emerges - and Cecil finally asserts his dominance. Through disciplinary scenes, he wages a war of retribution via stinging pleasure and mutual consent - and punishes Muriel, her maid and Muriel's two nieces in turn.

Follow the story of Beatrice in Volume One, "Lady Pokingham," where sordid adventures in the sexual underworld are commonplace, and virginal fantasies, flagellation, and Catholic guilt manifest themselves as streams of erotic poetry. In Volume Two, "La Rose d'Amour," a young man is influenced by his lusty young cousins, who invite him to join an illicit club of debauchery and brandy-saturated orgies, where pearl necklaces and see-through negligees are the only dress codes required.

'The Way of a Man with a Maid' is a foray into pleasure, pain, lesbianism and etiquette - told from the viewpoint of a quintessential Edwardian gent. Having first appeared in Parisian journals around the turn of the century, it is widely acknowledged to be a defining example of the erotic genre, and reveals the dark underbelly of human sexuality. Do the best things come to the woman who waits? Jack has built a special place in a padded room of an old lunatic asylum named 'The Snuggery'. Filled with ropes, cushions, straps and feathers, he chooses Alice to complete the decoration. Imprisoned against her will, she is teased into submission. And in moments of passion, when Jack names her his 'wife', Alice finally surrenders her maidenhead, submitting to the power of his unbridled lust.

Índice......Page 6
El árbol que hablaba......Page 8
El chico y el cocodrilo......Page 14
Sona mariama......Page 27
Los gemelos con una sola cabeza......Page 34
La madrastra y la niña......Page 37
Las aventuras de sowe......Page 44
El señor Wolo y el señor Kuta......Page 55
El gallo cantador debe cantar......Page 66
Las tres hermanas e Itrimubé......Page 83
Analia Tubarí y Samba Gana......Page 96
Las alas robadas......Page 106
El monstruo del lago......Page 114
Takisé, o el toro de la vieja......Page 123
La comadreja y su marido......Page 131
El pollito que se hizo rey......Page 135
Cómo la sabiduría se esparció por el mundo......Page 142
Fara y el viejo cocodrilo......Page 147
El anillo de la tórtola......Page 155
Por qué los monos no hablan......Page 168
Cómo el sastre casó a su hija......Page 174
Amadú Kekediurú (el salvador de los suyos)......Page 179
El huerfanillo odiado por sus hermano......Page 200
La pequeña liebre......Page 211
Kuakú Baboní (la más terrible de todas las criaturas)......Page 238
Ntyi, vencedor de la serpiente......Page 251
Fanfarronadas......Page 259
Las aventuras de Xatla, el Chacal......Page 269
La burra del lavandero......Page 287
Aua, la huerfanita......Page 298
La novia de la raza yblisa......Page 305
Historia de Rabotity......Page 317
Seetetelané......Page 324
La lanza perdida......Page 330

Dolido por la infidelidad de su esposa, un vengativo sultán decide ajusticiar cada día a una mujer. Para aplazar su muerte, Sahrazad resuelve cautivar la atención del rey una noche tras otra con historias que las gentes de Oriente se han contado durante muchos siglos. En ellas se suceden los prodigios: palacios que vuelan por arte de magia, genios descomunales en pequeñas botellas, viajeros que encuentran a su paso una misteriosa ciudad de bronce...
En la voz de la bella Sahrazad descubriremos el placer de un buen cuento, pero aprenderemos también que el hombre es un ser frágil.

本套教材是基于《全国医护英语水平考试考试大纲(全新版)》的考试教程。其具有两个鲜明的特征：一是实用特征，或称备考功能，即Test-oriented。这是直接服务于广大考生，且接地气的一个定位；也就是说，当读者打开这套教材时，扑面而来的是它的应试特色和应试功能。为了体现这一功能，这套教材的每一个单元都是一套试题。设计了诸多与考试相关的内容，从而给学生实实在在的训练，提高其应试技巧；二是课程特征。也就是说，书中听力、阅读和写作等各部分试题均以教程的形式呈现出来，做成一套教材，即Pedagogically styled，以便教师教学时有教学程序可依，有内容可教，学生也有内容可学，又能提高应试技巧，可谓一举两得。为了实现这一目的，我们设计了一系列普通教材所具有的教学程序和内容，如Questions for DiSCUSSion，Word List，Notes等。我们将这种合二而一的做法称为“试题教程化”，这也是本套教材 本套教材共分四册，每册对应METS四个级别中的一个级别，即一级、二级、三级和四级。程前光、苏萍主编的《全国医护英语水平考试强化教程(1)》编有的10个单元，每个单元蛐Listening Reading和Writing三个部分组成。

For anyone who's in love - or hopes to be - what greater celebration could there be than to hear the world's greatest love poetry read lovingly by Richard Armitage? With 15 poems by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more, Classic Love Poems is a listening treat for Valentine's Day - or any day.
Included in this collection are:
• "How do I love thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare
• "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
• "To Be One with Each Other" by George Eliot
• "Maud" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
• "Bright Star" by John Keats
• "Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
• "Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning
• "The Dream" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
• "I carry your heart" by e. e. cummings
• "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron
• "Give All to Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Length: 22 mins / Public Domain (P)2015 Audible Inc.

2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by Blair Underwood
Primary Colors - the #1 national bestseller with all the dramatic power, humor, psychological acuity, and insider knowledge of modern American electoral politics - is now a major motion picture from Universal.
Primary Colors portrays a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nut cases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other - sometimes by casting dark shadows.  The story paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth - the kind of truth only fiction can tell.

仙道求索：盛大娱乐小说（5.6合辑），ISBN：9787807034834，

必死之境机逢仙缘，修仙之路却更加艰险！
　　因濒死修仙者需实验残缺功法，资质低下的徐凡被收为弟子。
　　这残缺功法释放的道法威力，却只有常人的一半。
　　福兮？祸兮？
　　睁眼，这世间早已满目疮痍。
　　欺骗、背叛、阴谋、隐瞒、伪君子、真小人。
　　这注定不是平静的修炼，且看徐凡冷对虚伪，傲立于天地之间！