類別：社科 親子教養

MOTHER NATURE: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
母性 – 解開母親 嬰兒 與天擇之間的歷史糾葛
- by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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母性是女人與生俱來的一項特質嗎? 以往不論科學界或一般人都認為這是天賦的本能, 但這個想法越來越受到質疑. "母性"這本書針對母親的行為和為什麼會有這樣的行為, 提出全新的見解, 同時這個新見解是如何引影響科學家對演化的想法...

Summary
作者莎拉. 布萊佛. 赫迪教授由人類學, 歷史, 文學, 發展心理學以及動物行為等不同領域的背景, 檢視構成母性的兩大要素, 生物性與遺傳性的區別. 她剔除傳統刻板印象中對女性的偏見, 在母性衝突母愛與性愛, 兩性之間的緊張, 以及對女性生殖權的掌控等等, 帶給我們不同於以往的創見 .

赫迪教授以數十年的研究和自身為母的經驗, 由歷史和演化的角度闡釋了為人之母的意義, 從而改變了我們對人類發展與行為的理解

作者 About the Author
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy : 文化人類學家 靈長類研究者 本書曾被出版者週刊及圖書館期刊選為1999 年年度好書 另有著作 THE WOMAN THAT NEVER EVOLVED 及 INFANTICIDE 等 均為重要的社科著作

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類別：科普傳記歷史

EINSTEIN'S HEROES
愛因斯坦的英雄們
- by Robyn Arianrhod

本書描述歷史上啟發愛因斯坦的科學家們的故事 尤其是James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday 及 Issac Newton. Maxwell 與 Faraday合作 解答了牛頓遺留下來長達一世紀的物理學謎題, 並建立數學為物理學最終依歸...

Summary
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Arianrhod (mathematics, Monash U., Australia) explores the quest to make sense of the physical world, focusing on the work of James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79), who developed the theory of electromagnetism, as the first physicist to embrace the ambiguous relationship between language and reality. Distributed in the US by ISBS.Copyright (c) 2004 Book News,
Inc., Portland, OR

作者 About the Author
Robyn Arianrhod是一位出身澳洲的作家及媒體工作者, 她同時也在大學教授數學超過十年之上

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類別：文學

解夏（◆解夏◆秋櫻◆水底之村◆櫻草 ）
ISBN:4344404645  幻冬舍 (2003-12-05出版)
作者： 佐田雅志

書名同名作品「解夏」，描寫一位因為疾病逐漸喪失視力的男性，回到故鄉長期後的糾葛以及一直深愛他支持他的戀人之間的故事。除了「解夏」外，還有其他三篇作品。是一本講述人性堅強與關懷，扣人心弦令人感動的小說集...

Summary
在東京擔任教職的隆之，因為身患怪病即將失明，所以辭去工作回到母親居住的故鄉長崎。之後，原本對隆之病症不知情的戀人陽子，獲知真相後也到了長崎，決心好好照顧隆之。某天，兩人在寺廟遇見一位老人，聽了「解夏」這個故事...。
「解夏」典故源自佛經，白話文的意思是：『以往都將消失，一切從頭再開始。』

作者 About the Author
SADA MASASHI 佐田雅志
1952年生於長崎。國學院大學肄業。1972年組成「grape」，之後以「精靈放流」、「無緣<土反>」等大受歡迎。「grape」解散後，以單曲「線香花火」個人單飛。

* 本書已於2004年改編為電影以及日劇。

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類別：童書/日文書

狐狸的電話亭
作者： 戶田和代
繪者 : 高巢和美

Summary
喪子的母狐狸與思念母親的人類小孩, 卻因同樣的思念情感而牽引在一起,交織出一個讓人熱淚盈洭的故事, 不僅讓小孩學習, 更讓成年人深思, 喚醒因忙錄而忽略對周圍親人的親情交流...

作者 About the Author
戶田和代出生於日本東京的作家。主要作品有『貓兒的失物』(曾獲日本兒童文藝家協會新人獎)、『魚兒的約定』及『狐狸的電話亭』。

繪者 About the Illustrator
高巢和美出生於日本福岡縣的畫家。畢業於東京設計學院，目前主要作品有『睡不著』、『狐狸的電話亭』等。

* 「狐狸的電話亭」是日本近年來最賺人熱淚的暢銷童書之一。並獲第八屆廣介童話賞。本書出版至2004年6月已印了51刷, 累積銷量282,000 本。

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類別：小說/文學

Hotel World 
飯店世界
- by ALI SMITH

五個女人, 四個過客, 三人陌生, 兩個姊妹, 一個鬼魂, 五個不同的世界,交會在一間飯店的某個夜晚,循著升降梯帶出的一個意外,我們閱讀了死亡,傷痛,希望與愛,經歷這世間所加諸於人的一切...

意識流的寫法透過敘事者傳達一個意:我們終將活下去! 本書入圍2001年the Booker Prize以及the Orange Prize決選書單

Summary
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Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike, mesmerizing Hotel World, set in the luxurious anonymity of the Global Hotel, in an unnamed northern English city. The disembodied yet interconnected characters include Sara, a 19-year-old chambermaid who has recently died at the hotel; her bereaved sister, Clare, who visits the scene of Sara's death; Penny, an advertising copywriter who is staying in the room opposite; Lise, the Global's depressed receptionist; and the homeless Else, who begs on the street outside. Smith's ambitious prose explores all facets of language and its uses. Sara takes us through the moment of her exit from the world and beyond; in her desperate, fading grip on words and senses she gropes to impart the meaning of her death in what she terms "the lift for dishes," then comes a flash of clarity: "That's the name for it, the name for it; that's it; dumb waiter dumb waiter dumb waiter."

Hotel World is not an easy read: disturbing and witty by turns, with stream-of-consciousness narrators reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's The Waves, its deceptively rambling language is underpinned by a formal construction. Exploring the "big themes" of love, death, and millennial capitalism, it takes as its starting point Muriel Spark's Memento Mori ("Remember you must die") and counteracts this axiom with a resolute "Remember you must live." Ali Smith's novel is a daring, compelling, and frankly spooky read. --Catherine Taylor, Amazon.co.uk

作者 About the Author
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first collection of stories Free Love won the Saltire First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award in 1995. Her first novel, Like, was published in 1997 and her second collection of stories, Other Stories and Other Stories, in 1999.

* Simon Prosser at Hamish Hamilton is going to publish THE ACCIDENTAL in May 2005.            Pantheon is her US publisher.

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類別：青少年懸疑小說

A NORTHERN LIGHT
北方之光
- by Jennifer Donnelly

經濟困頓的少女美蒂擁有滿腔難以實現的夢想，在她工作的旅館，房客葛蕾絲要求她燒毀一批密函。當葛蕾絲的屍體被沖到河邊，美蒂才發現這批信件透露了謀殺背後的殘酷真相...

Summary
An astonishing and heartbreaking novel about a young girl's coming-of-age and the murder that rocked turn-of-the century America. Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories.

The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over his broke back farm. The mad welter of feeling she has for handsome but dull Royal Loomis who says he wants to marry her. And the secret dream that keeps her going-finishing high school, attending college in New York City, becoming a writer...

作者 About the Author
Jennifer Donnelly is the author of a novel for adult readers, THE TEA ROSE, and a picture book, HUMBLE PIE. For A NORTHERN LIGHT, she drew on stories she heard from her grandmother while growing up in upstate New York. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two rescued greyhounds.

- Los Angles Times Book Award Finalist
- Borders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner
- Named a Printz Honor Book by the ALA
- Named a Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults by the ALA
- Named a Best Book of 2003 Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), the Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union.
- Chosen by amazon.com as a top teen title for 2003
- Chosen by the Junior Library Guild as a 2003 selection.
- Selected by Borders bookstore for its Original Voices program
- Nominated for De Gouden Zoen (The Golden Kiss) in Holland

*Language rights in A NORTHERN LIGHT have been sold in: Croatia, France, Germany, Holland and UK

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類別：父母教養/自我成長

THE SEVEN STAGES OF MOTHERHOOD: Making the Most of your Life as a Mom
- by Ann Pleshette Murphy

Dozens of parenting books address child development, abounding in facts and figures and helpful advice about every stage of our children’s growth. But what about mothers, who are transformed right alongside their children?

Summary
Ann Pleshette Murphy, who was the Editor-in-Chief of Parents magazine for 10 years, and the mother of two, delivers one of the few books to guide women through the great unknown of motherhood. The mother separating from her nursery school age child is vastly different from the mother caring for her newborn baby, and she in turn is vastly different from the mother of a teenage child or a even a grown child. Murphy explores the constantly shifting internal world of the mother along with her evolving marriage, friendships, professional expectations and sense of her own needs and desires that occur in tandem with her children’s development. Urging women to reflect on the seismic shifts they undergo at each stage of their children’s lives and to focus on their own evolution, Murphy provides the encouragement, the insightful advice and the gentle reassurance mothers need to make the most of their lives as they raise their children.

Drawing on her years of research, conversations with leaders in the field, and anecdotal material from her own life, Murphy illuminates the changes taking place in a mother as a child develops – all with her trademark charm, humor and grace. In this singularly poignant and engrossing book, readers will experience Ann Pleshette Murphy as an authority, as a fellow mom, and as a trusted friend.

作者 About the Author
Ann Pleshette Murphy writes a bi-monthly column on mothering for Family Circle Magazine and is the parenting correspondent for television’s “Good Morning America”. Murphy has also written for The New York Times Book Review, Redbook, Glamour, and Travel & Leisure and has numerous television credits, including “Oprah”. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.

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類別：教養，理財

Raising Financially Fit Kids
理財觀念，從小開始： 培養孩子正確的理財觀念
- by Joline Godfrey

Summary
您的孩子喜歡將東西據為己有嗎？還是樂於與人分享？這些個性可能和他/ 她未來的理財態度有密切的關係。本書從理論及實務方面教導父母，老師如何引導培養孩子正確的理財觀念，並且將孩子的成長從五歲到十八歲分成四個階段，提供每個階段應該養成的理財觀念，此外，作者更深入設計一份孩子的成長地圖，提供十個應該培養孩子的理財技巧。

作者 About the Author
Since 1992, Joine Godfrey has been a pioneer in the movement to increase financial literacy and empowerment in young people; today she is one of the leading experts on kids, parents, and money in USA. Jolin lives in Ojai, California. Visit her onlineat www.independentmeans.com or www.DollarDiva.com.

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類別：心理勵志，生涯規劃

Luck is no Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career
幸運絕非偶然
- by John D. Krumboltz, Ph. D. & Al S. Levin, Ed. D.

生命中那些超出計畫範圍的事件以及突發狀況，比起我們精心安排的事件，往往更能影響我們生命中重大的決定，例如職業的選擇。和某些人偶然相遇，臨時起意的旅程，暫時代理某人的職位，業餘的興趣，這些經驗都可能影響我們生命的方向和職業的選擇。本書旨在提醒讀者未雨綢繆，把握每一個偶發事件所帶來的的機會。 本書不僅包括理論方面的文字說明，並佐以實用範例， 心理測驗等...

Summary
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Unplanned events-chance occurrences-more often determine life and career choices than all the careful planning we do. A chance meeting, a broken appointment, a spontaneous vacation trip, a "fill-in" job, a hobby-these are the kinds of experiences that lead to unexpected life directions and career choices. Luck Is No Accident is the first "career planning" book that actively encourages readers to create their own unplanned events, to anticipate changing their plans frequently, to take advantage of chance events when they happen, and to make the most of what life offers. Krumboltz is one of the most honored and highly respected psychologists in the career development field.

Chapters include:
Make the Most of Unplanned Events; Keep Your Options Open; Wake Up-Before Your Dreams Come True; Try It-Even Without Knowing the Outcome; Go Ahead and Make Mistakes; Create Your Own Luck; Go for the Job-Then Learn the Skills; Enjoy Yourself-The Good Life is a Balanced Life; Make Life HAPPEN for You.

Features
- The first career book to admit that life doesn't go according to plan
- The most realistic approach yet to life and career planning-"Prepare for the unexpected"
- Packed with personal vignettes, practical advice, exercises, worksheets
- Written by internationally recognized, pioneering career development professionals
- Reader-friendly, warm, down-to-earth style

Audience
- Young adults beginning careers in the uncertain 21st century
- Mature adults considering a career change
- College students planning careers
- Career and employment counselors, psychologists, HRD pros
- Serious readers of self-help and self-improvement

作者 About the Author
John D. Krumboltz, Ph. D., Professor of Education and Psychology at Stanford University, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is specializing in theory of career counseling. Dr. Krumbloltz has received designation as one of only five "Living Legends in Counseling" by the American Counseling Association (2004)

Al. Sl Levin, Ed. D., Professor of Counselor Education at California State University Sacramento, was formerly the Assistant Director at Stanford University's Career Development Center. Dr. Levin has authored numerous development publication,lead traing workshops.

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類別：兒童圖畫書

WHAT'S WRONG WITH TIMMY?
Timmy怎麼了?
- by Maria Shriver
- Illustrator: Sandra Speidel

當小孩子看到別的孩子長相不一樣，說話或舉止異於常人，他們的第一個問題總是：「他怎麼啦？」我希望藉著這本書讓孩子瞭解殘障兒不足為懼，毋須可憐或嘲笑他，而是伸手擁抱、接納他，將他當作對自己的挑戰。我們要讓孩子瞭解，不論我們是何種出身，在神的眼中，每一個孩子都是獨一無二的...  - 作者瑪麗亞 雪佛                                                            

Summary
When eight-year-old Kate and her mother go to the park, Kate notices Timmy, a boy who looks and behaves differently from the other children she knows. Kate feels uneasy. Is there something "wrong with Timmy?" But when Kate's mom introduces her to Timmy, the seeds of a friendship are planted. Soon Kate and Timmy are laughing and playing together, and Kate learns that she and Timmy have a lot in common.

作者 About the Author
Maria Shriver is an award-winning journalist. She is also the mother of four children, a wife, and the author of the two enormously popular and helpful award-winning bestsellers WHAT'S HEAVEN? and TEN THINGS I WISH I'D KNOWN and BEFORE I WENT OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD. She and her family live in Santa Monica, California.

繪者 About the Illustrator
Sandra Speidel has won awards from both the San Francisco and the New York Society of Illustrators. Her beautiful pastels helped give WHAT'S HEAVEN? and more than twelve other children's books a strong graphic appeal. She lives with her daughter in Petaluma, California.

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