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Book description: 内容简介 In this story of "The Junglies" the friends discover there are many other places in the world…
beside their home which they would like see. 在故事中 这群"丛林里的朋友"发现世上还有许多令他们向往的地方 When they realise that they cannot travel outside their home in the jungle they decide to find a way to see other places. They subsequently realise that sometimes we just need to look at things from a different perspective to appreciate what we have. 当他们意识到他们无法离家出外旅游后 他们就决定想个法子看看其他地方 他们最终领悟到有时我们更应该珍惜我们所拥有的
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The autobiography of the first woman president in Korea 朴槿惠以最平实的笔触 娓娓道出她的过往人生 处处可见她对父母的追慕与怀念之情,对韩国人民怀抱的使命感 以及历经大起大落后的省思与坚韧 全书自朴槿惠的少女时代始 描述了总统府青瓦台中的"第一家庭"如何过着寻常的生活 母亲遇刺后 朴槿惠担当起"第一夫人"的角色 其间得以了解政治的基本议题和国家的基本状况 父亲也遭暗杀后 她与弟妹黯然离开青瓦台 面对种种不堪现实与外界批判 她对人性和权力有了更深入的认识 决心远离政治 1997年韩国陷入经济萧条 朴槿惠眼见民生多艰,国家危殆 毅然重返政坛 书中详细描写了在加入大国家党之后 朴槿惠如何以原则和信念立身 带领大国家党踏上破除陈年积弊,夺取国会议席的征程
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Police Commissioner John Anderton finds himself at the mercy of his own crime-prevention system when the prescient precogs he's hired…
to stop crime before it starts peg him as a soon-to-be murderer in Philip K. Dick's masterful short story The Minority Report. This slim volume is top-bound like an office account and perfectly timed, the movie version, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is due out this summer but whether fans will shell out the dough for a single short story that's available in various collections remains to be seen. 本书结集科幻鬼才菲利普*迪克最具代表性的九个短篇 第二代 , 冒名顶替 , 规划小组 , 少数派报告 , 战争游戏 , 啊 当个布洛贝尔人 , 死者的话 , 全面回忆 和 电子蚂蚁 菲利普*迪克以其独特的文风和光怪陆离的想象在美国科幻黄金时代独树一帜 他的短篇小说情节跌宕 很多故事的架构都勘称一绝 菲利普*迪克的小说主人公往往是困在极不寻常情镜中的小人物 他们被自己扭曲的感知误导 进退维谷 找不到出路
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After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband…
is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home 伊妮德·兰伯特 当了五十年的妻子和母亲之后 准备让自己享受一下快乐 不幸的是 她的丈夫 艾尔弗雷德罹患帕金森症 逐渐精神失常 他们的孩子也早已飞出了家庭的小巢 奔向各自生活的悲剧 大儿子加里 银行的投资经理,居家男人 正努力说服自己和家人他没有临床抑郁症----尽管各方面证据相反 二儿子奇普 因性丑闻失去了高校的稳定工作 处于半失业状态 指望着靠手头的剧本赚钱 三女儿丹妮丝年轻美貌 逃离了惨淡的婚姻 成了纽约高级餐厅的主厨 却与一位已婚男性有染----至少她母亲如此怀疑 尽管情势看起来无比绝望 伊妮德却意志坚定 她要纠正一切的错误 享受全家人的最后一次圣诞欢聚
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In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects,…
people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women. 当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么 是雷蒙德·卡佛优秀的短篇小说集 由17篇短篇小说组成 讲述了如餐馆女招待,锯木厂工人,修车工,推销员和汽车旅馆管理员等社会底层的体力劳动者的生活 这些普通人有着普通人的愿望 做着再普通不过的事情 但他们发现自己在为生存而挣扎 无法达到在常人看来并不远大的人生目标 他们的生活中充满了窘困和不如意 婚姻破裂 失业 酗酒 破产 卡佛用"极简"的遣词,冷静疏离的叙事 表现了现代社会中人的边缘性以及现代人脆弱的自我意识 本书的出版 为美国短篇小说写作注入了新的生命 并为卡佛赢得了"美国的契诃夫"的称号 使他成为美国继海明威之后受到模仿最多的作家
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It is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Swede Levov, a legendary…
athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. "美国三部曲"之首的 美国牧歌 体现了美国社会中由来已久的冲突 相信"美国梦"的人 以为只要努力和正派 就可美梦成真 然而历史的悲剧性常常和个人是否努力和正派无关
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The autobiography of the first woman president in Korea 朴槿惠以最平实的笔触 娓娓道出她的过往人生 处处可见她对父母的追慕与怀念之情,对韩国人民怀抱的使命感 以及历经大起大落后的省思与坚韧 全书自朴槿惠的少女时代始 描述了总统府青瓦台中的"第一家庭"如何过着寻常的生活 母亲遇刺后 朴槿惠担当起"第一夫人"的角色 其间得以了解政治的基本议题和国家的基本状况 父亲也遭暗杀后 她与弟妹黯然离开青瓦台 面对种种不堪现实与外界批判 她对人性和权力有了更深入的认识 决心远离政治 1997年韩国陷入经济萧条 朴槿惠眼见民生多艰,国家危殆 毅然重返政坛 书中详细描写了在加入大国家党之后 朴槿惠如何以原则和信念立身 带领大国家党踏上破除陈年积弊,夺取国会议席的征程
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The Borrowers--the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise--are tiny people who live underneath the…
kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs, are "borrowed" from the "human beans" who tromp around loudly above them. All is well until Pod is spotted upstairs by a human boy! Can the Clocks stay nested safely in their beloved hidden home, or will they be forced to flee? The British author Mary Norton won the Carnegie Medal for The Borrowers in 1952, the year it was first published in England. 一个患病的英国小男孩被送往乡间姑婆的老宅中休养 寂静中他发现了在古宅里的一个秘密 借东西的小人 借东西的小人只有铅笔一般高 他们把家安在房子的地板下 靠从楼上的"巨人"那里"借"东西为生 他们最害怕的就是被"看见" 借东西的小女孩阿瑞埃蒂在门外草丛里被小男孩看见 好心的小男孩开始帮助这一家小人借东西 还充当信使 为他们和住在别处的亲戚送信 但好景不长 女管家也发现了小人一家 她关住小男孩 找来警察,猫和捕鼠专家对付小人 万分危急之际 小人一家是如何成功逃脱人类的追捕的呢
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Ikal is a student at the poorest village school, which is under constant threat of closure. Ikal and his friends--a…
group nicknamed the Rainbow Troops--face threats from every angle: skeptical government officials, greedy corporations hardly distinguishable from the colonialism they've replaced, deepening poverty and crumbling infrastructure, and their own low self-confidence.But the students also have hope. 天虹战队小学 讲述了一个励志故事 在南太平洋上 有专为穷人而建的学校 条件简陋 资源匮乏 破洞比砖瓦还多 下雨天 老师要撑着香蕉叶上课 校长要卖菜为学生买课本 天才学生每天得游过鳄鱼栖息地上学 最有艺术细胞的孩子用零成本打造狂欢节演出......但他们的老师 拒绝了"前途美好"的工作 到这里教书 没有工资 靠做针线活赚取生活费 孩子们和老师一起 为了理想向命运宣战 亲身践行那句古老的格言 "那些没把你击垮的 最终只会让你更强大 "
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Cathedral is a collection of short stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life. These similar…
stories, very skillful within their narrow limits, were written with a dry intensity, and moving, at their climaxes, from the commonplace to the unnerving.雷蒙德·卡弗是近年美国杰出的短篇小说家 六七十年代的美国社会动荡,思潮澎湃 作者从忧患困顿中脱颖而出 十年间发表了好几部集子 都属畅销 他的作品写的几乎全是社会中下阶层 失业无告 婚变心碎 贫病自弃之人 写作手法也颇为独特 人称"极简派"或"峻削派" 其作品曾多次获奖 屡屡被选做经典语文读本 并被译成二十多种文字 大教堂 是卡佛的短篇小说集 1983年出版后,日文版和英国版随即出版并被提名普利策奖 本书中文译本是首次授权出版,由青年作家,芝加哥大学文学博士肖铁倾心翻译
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With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us…
the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time. 请你安静些,好吗? 是卡佛文学创作的处女作 是卡氏风格的奠基之作 为其一生的创作主旨设定了基调 同时也是其第一本具有广泛影响力的短篇小说集 它于1976年在美国甫一出版即获好评 并于1977年被题名国家图书奖 卡佛曾说过 "对大多数人而言 人生不是什么冒险 而是一股莫之能御的洪流 "在这本短篇小说集里 我们所看到的 就是这样的人生片段 它写的完全不是冒险奋战的英雄人物 而是我们身边毫不起眼却终日陷在生活琐事,人际关系难题里的小人物 卡佛以极简的文字 将生活中最不起眼的时刻写得朴实而暗含张力 他的风格影响了当今许多名家
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CHINA CEO: Voices of Experience From 20 International Business Leaders is based on interviews with 20 top executives and eight…
experienced consultants based in China. The book is packed with first-hand, front-line advice from veterans of the China market. Hear directly from the top executives heading up the China operations of Bayer, British Petroleum, Coca-Cola, General Electric, General Motors, Philips, Microsoft, Siemens, Sony and Unilever, plus expert China-based consultants at Boston Consulting Group, Korn/Ferry International, McKinsey & Company, and many more. Each chapter provides practical tips and easy to grasp models that will help new managers in China to be effective. In CHINA CEO, we deliver what other Western authors can't - first-hand reflections based on over 100 years' collective experience in China. The book presents this rich knowledge in a readable, conversational style suitable for time-constrained executives. Each chapter gives specific advice on how to manage Chinese employees, work with Chinese business partners, communicate with headquarters, face competitors, battle intellectual property rights infringers, win-over Chinese consumers, negotiate with the Chinese government, and adapt yourself (and your family) to life in China.关系指人和人或人和事物之间的某种性质的联系 比如拉关系,社会关系等 事实上 "关系"并不像西方人有时想象的那样 本身就是不道德的 "关系"体制也并不意味着 公司在行贿或者达成私下交易后就可以为所欲为 不过 与西方国家相比 中国的商业伙伴往往会发展出更加密切和深入的关系 国际经理人常常会发现自己在中国开展正常业务时 往往是在一个充满人情且依靠个人 而非职业 能力的环境中行事
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From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure…
you've woken up from. 乔*奇普为格伦*朗西特的反超能咨询公司工作 保护人们免受通灵师和先知的心灵窥探 在一次前往月球执行任务的过程中 朗西特的行动组遭遇埋伏 朗西特身亡 行动组成员迅速将朗西特的遗体送往苏黎世的亡灵馆冰冻冷藏 并试图与他的大脑取得联系 然而 不仅没有成功联系上朗西特 行动组成员还发现 钱币,香烟等物品均在发生退转 时光似乎在往回倒流 究竟发生了什么事 这是一个让人深感不安的生存恐怖故事 一场你不知道自己是否还会醒过来的噩梦
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最佳欧洲小说 2011 The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal. For 2011, Aleksandar Hemon is…
back as editor, along with a new preface by Colum McCann, and with a whole new cast of authors and stories, including work from countries not included in Best European Fiction 2010. "最佳欧洲小说"是欧洲文学出版社甄选出的欧洲当年或近年最佳欧洲小说作品 相当于欧洲小说的年鉴 体现欧洲文学前沿的高度 长期以来 由于小语种语言的限制 国内读者对欧洲文学的了解大多是源自西欧文学 而这本书却给读者以领略整个欧洲文学精神风貌的机会 甄选作品的国度达到四十个 无论是英国,德国这样的老牌文学强国 还是拉脱维亚,爱沙尼亚,立陶宛,波黑,克罗地亚,马其顿这样的文学小户 既有声名煊赫的作家也有新发掘的潜力新人 其中包括今年曼布克奖得主希拉里·曼特尔 他们代表了欧洲文学整体的趋势和走向 多样化的地域文学特点和多样性的文风 使得本书宛若流动着的"欧洲当代文学" 文学地图 中国读者可从中领略广博多姿的欧洲多元文化 这也是国内出版界首次如此细致并成规模译介欧洲当代文学新作 本书由著名译者李文俊老师领衔 结集国内外优秀译者 译本权威
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It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a…
president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser."美国三部曲"的登峰之作 与前两部相比 小说中各元素之间更加制衡 更具整体性 对人性的探讨更加彻底 小说重磅炸弹似的主题 注定其成为各方评论的主题
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It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a…
small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. 爱与黑暗的故事 是当今以色列最富影响力的作家阿摩司·奥兹的自传体长篇小说 一向被学界视为奥兹最优秀的作品 短短五年 便翻译成二十多种文字 曾夺得2005年"歌德文化奖" 2007年入围"国际布克奖" 小说以耶路撒冷做为主要背景 以娓娓动人的笔法向读者展示出百余年一个犹太家族的故事与民族历史 既带你走进一个犹太家庭 了解其喜怒哀乐 又使你走近一个民族 窥见其得失荣辱
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Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered…
when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. 在 寻欢作乐 里 毛姆从现实中取材 将虚实相掺 借故事叙述者阿申登之口讲述了其与著名作家德里菲尔德及其前妻罗西的早年交往 而这段往事正是另一位流行小说家基尔所要挖掘的传记素材 读者可依稀指认出德里菲尔德是在影射哈代 基尔由休·沃尔波尔脱胎而来 至于罗西 则分明是乔伊斯笔下莫莉·布鲁姆的翻版
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I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who…
begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s.In this story cruelty, betrayal, and revenge spilling over into the public arena from their origins in Ira's turbulent personal life 这个苦涩的,略带诙谐的故事自始至终都是那么引人入胜 它唤醒了我们共有的历史中那个特定的时间和地点......立体重现了二战后的理想主义和伪善
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China: Museums unlocks the doors to over 200 must-see museums, ranging from art and archeology, science and technology to history…
and politics. Pertinent information supplements entries and highlights of key objects are illustrated with over 500 color images. 本书作者是三位外国记者与专栏作家 他们在中国游历多年 特别是参观了中国两百多家博物馆 以外国人的角度介绍了各博物馆的藏品及展览特色等 本书介绍的博物馆 按地区,省,市划分 使用方便 特别收录了易被忽视的博物馆,介绍了博物馆必看展品以及适合儿童参观的博物馆 提供了迄今最准确的地址,联系方式,网址 中英文对照的博物馆名称 并配有近千幅精美图片 书中记录的每一家博物馆都会给你带来启发 依此而游 博物馆的藏品与展览之旅会令你的旅行大为增色 当然也会成为进一步理解中国艺术,文化,社会与历史的起点
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Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal is…
as strong as ever in these handsome new paperback packages. While the original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, Marla Frazee's striking cover illustrations capture these little people with a larger-than-life appeal.退休的老珀特先生童心灿烂 闲来无事在家里建起了一个微型村庄 波德一家人迁居来到这里 过起了安逸生活 好心的孟奇思小姐看到了他们 并和阿瑞埃蒂成为好朋友 时常暗中帮助他们 但好景不长 一天 他们被一对贪婪的夫妇抓到自己家的阁楼上 准备到春天就把他们关到玻璃笼子里招徕游客 波德一家人再次陷入绝境 他们在阁楼上度过了漫长的被囚禁的冬天 终于在春天到来前想到了逃走的办法 他们学着报纸上人类制作热气球的技术 制作了一个逃生的气球 再次回到了野外