"Humpty Dumpty," "Pat-a-Cake," "The Cat and the Fiddle," and a dozen more rhymes and illustrations from the family classic, The Real Mother Goose, are lavishly reproduced in a durable board book editi
Travel back in time to discover secrets of mummies and other human remains from around the world in this fascinating book, publishing 100 years after the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb.From ancient Egyptian mummies and European bog bodies to the plaster citizens of Pompeii, painted people of the Steppe and Japanese self-mummifying monks, this book reveals what scientists and experts have uncovered about our ancestors’ lives from the bodies they left behind. Find out what these people ate, wore, believed in, enjoyed doing and much, much more in this unique and stunningly illustrated book.With an engaging text by Matt Ralphs, written in consultation with experts from the British Museum, and beautiful, respectful artwork by Gordy Wright, this is a book that will delight and inspire anyone aged 9+ with an interest in history, archaeology and anthropology.
E. O. Wright,曾任美國社會學會理事長,被譽為美國最著名的左派學者及公共知識分子之一。在為期四年、巡迴十八個國家、發表五十場演說並與群眾交流後,Wright集數十年研究及實踐的心得,交出這本《真實烏托邦》大作,激盪了這個看似已被資本主義所終結、但實則有許多人仍在嘗試尋找新出路的世界。 Wright在本書中診斷並批判了資本主義,他直陳單靠國家或資本主導的經濟活動,既不民主也不平等,無法促使