| |
2005-08-20新到書目
|
日文書
|
類別：小說/日文書
逃避行
作者：篠田節子
單行本: 278P ; 19 x
13 cm
出版社: 光文社
ISBN: 4334924158 ; (2003/12/15)
愛犬POPO把鄰居的小孩咬死了。為逃避世人的責難，加上對於小孩、丈夫反應的失望，帶著愛犬POPO離家出走的主婦妙子。她尋求的救援是？直木賞作家篠田節子在「女性自身」雜誌上的連載作品...
Summary
因為與丈夫及子女在心靈上越來越無法交流，對50歲的主婦妙子來說，愛犬POPO是她唯一可以信賴且重要的存在。但是，某天，這樣的POPO把鄰居小孩咬死了！世人並不去追究錯的是那個小孩，而一昧的決定應該將這隻狗處決掉。因此，妙子決定離家出走。沒有目標也沒有可投靠的對象，妙子開始了她的逃避行。
作者
About the Author
篠田節子[SHINODA SETSUKO]東京出身。畢業於東京學藝大學。在1990年以「絹的變容」獲得第三屆昴新人賞，因此展開作者生涯。1997年以「Gosainthan」獲得第十屆山本周五郎賞。同年以「女性聖戰」獲得第117屆直木賞。
more... |
|
日文書
繁體版權
已售 |
類別：文學歷史
茶的世界史
作者：角山榮
茶, 源生於中國的產物, 卻在數百年間. 綿延繁衍近乎全球性的飲品. 如果說香料促成了歐洲對亞洲航路的開拓,
那麼茶和棉布就是促成近代歐洲資本主藝興起的契機. 茶到了歐洲, 英國人喝起了砂糖. 鮮奶的紅茶, 中國人喝各式不同的茶種, 如:
烏龍茶. 高山茶. 日本人喝單純的綠茶 皆是東西文化的差異不同.
本書第一部份記錄了茶從一種 "文化"轉變成資本主義"商品"的過程. 於歐洲掘起到興盛.
第二部分解釋以文化內涵為行銷重心的日本綠茶，被以健康飲料為賣點的印度、錫蘭紅茶打敗的原因。
對「茶文化」的失落提出質疑，然而, 由於現代主義. 物資主義已經走過頭. 人們才又開始關心起茶的{本心}. 茶的世界史. 無疑地已進入另外一個新的階段...
作者
About the Author
角山榮. 1921年出生於大阪, 1945年畢業於京都大學經濟學部. 專攻經濟史.
曾任和歌山大學經濟學教授. 現任和歌山大學榮譽教授. ?市博物館館長. 著有: (經濟史學). (產業革命與民眾).(講座: 西洋經濟史)(路地裏的大英帝國).
(時鐘的社會史).(辣的文化. 甜的文化)(亞細亞文化復)興(時間革命)
|
| |
類別：青少年小說
The
Mob
(Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles trilogy)
烏鴉紀事第一輯
-
by Clem Martini
一場屬於烏鴉家族基納 (the Kinaars) 的冒險故事就此展開……年輕、桀傲不馴的積普(Kyp) 決定對那隻殺了雛鳥的惡貓展開報復行動,於是召集了同伴,對惡貓展開襲擊,沒想到這場行動卻在烏鴉家族的年度集會上引發爭議,最後積普因此被驅逐六天.這時,一場無預警的暴風雪向基納家族襲來,為了逃竄,大夥紛紛逃離長久的居住地.基普和牠的同伴為了拯救分崩離析的家族再度聚集起來,只是這方法可能再度違抗了家族的傳統與律條...
Summary
At
the peak of the spring migration, hundreds of crows converge for
the gathering. But?this year, the unity of the flock is threatened
when a Mob, led by the young and impulsive Kyp, mounts a revenge
attack on a cat – with disastrous consequences. The Gathering should
be a time to rejoice. Instead, it becomes a time of fear, danger
and uncertainty, when ancient laws and customs are tested. The flock
passes judgment – Kyp must be punished.
Then,
an unexpected blizzard spells more trouble. The flock desperately
needs a safe roost. They split up, leaving the Gathering Tree to
seek shelter in forbidden worlds…
作者
About the Illustrator
Clem Martini is a playwright
and screenwriter who has written for both adults and young people.
Clem also works as a professor at the University of Calgary and
as director of the Summerstock Program for Woods Homes, a charitable
organization working with troubled youths. Clem was born in Calgary,
Alberta Canada, and lives there with his wife and two daughters.
*
圖書版權已售出地區: UK, Brazil,
Holland, Germany and Japan
*
電影版權已售出:
Nelvana
more... |
| |
類別：青少年小說
A
GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY
醜陋的美女
-
by Libba Bray
三部曲之一（紐約時報暢銷書）
十六歲的珍美生長於印度，有別於其他女孩。其他女孩禮儀周全，不主動發言，謹守分寸，懷念著她們的英倫祖國。珍美在印度的家發生了重大悲劇，被送回倫敦進入精修學校。她孤寂、罪咎，更具有預知未來的超能力，而迎接她的是不友好。但是她並非完全孤獨，一個神秘的青年尾隨著她，提醒她不要再運用超能力。珍美的超自然力量使她被學校一群最有勢力的女孩糾纏，她還發現母親與一個秘密團體有關連。她的命運也與這個團體有關，她很不願意相信自己將是復興這個團體的人...
Summary
On
Gemma's 16th birthday, she argues with her mother and wants to leave
India, runs off when her mother refuses to send her to London to
school, has a dreadful vision and witnesses her mother's death.
Two months later, Gemma is enrolled in London's Spence School, still
troubled by visions, and unable to share her grief and guilt over
her loss. She gradually learns to control her vision and enter the
"realms" where magical powers can make anything happen
and where her mother waits to instruct her.
Gradually Gemma and her new friends learn about the Order, an ancient
group of women who maintained the realms and regulated their power,
and how two students unleashed an evil creature from the realms
by killing a Gypsy girl. Gemma uncovers her mother's connection
to those events and learns what she now must do. The fantasy element
is obvious, and the boarding-school setting gives a glimpse into
a time when girls were taught gentility and the importance of appearances.
作者
About the Author
Libba Bray is the author
of five and a half plays, a few short stories and essays, and lots
of things that, in her words, "should never see the light of
day." Raised in Texas on a steady diet of British humor, underground
bands, suburban dysfunction, and bad TV, she somehow managed to
escape with only a few seriously deranged haircuts. She lives in
Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and their son. This is her
first novel.
more... |
| |
類別：小說
THE
HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTER
蜂鳥的女兒
-
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Format: 精裝, 512頁
光美國丹佛郵報—“我願意再等上二十年, 期待下一部如同THE HUMMINGBIRD’S
DAUGHTER如此動我心弦之作”一部來自普利茲獎提名作家 Luis Alberto Urrea 充滿神秘, 情感豐沛小說.
燦爛如西部夕陽的傑作. 故事描寫一位以驚人的堅定信念面對自己命運, 明白得到真愛必需有所犧牲的女兒和一位體會真愛何物的父親...
The prizewinning
writer Luis Alberto Urrea’s long-awaited novel is an epic mystical
drama of a young woman’s sudden sainthood in late 19th-century
Mexico. It is 1889, and civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16-year-old
girl, Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy
and powerful rancher Don Tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream--a
dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream. This passionate
and rebellious young woman has arisen from death with a power to
heal--but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await
her and her family now that she has become the "Saint of Cabora."
THE HUMMINGBIRD’S DAUGHTER is a vast, hugely satisfying novel of
love and loss, joy and pain. Two decades in the writing, this is
the masterpiece that Luis Alberto Urrea has been building up to.
Its publication will be a major literary event.
Summary
Teresita
is not an ordinary girl. Born of an illiterate, poor Indian mother,
she knows little about her past or her future. She has no idea that
her father is Don Tomas Urrea, the wild and rich owner of a vast
ranch in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. She has no idea that Huila,
the elderly healer who takes Teresita under her wing, knows secrets
about her destiny. And she has no idea that soon all of Mexico will
rise in revolution, crying out her name.
When
Teresita is but a teenager, learning from Huila the way plants can
cure the sick and prayer can move the earth, she discovers an even
greater gift: she has the power to heal. Her touch, like warm honey,
melts pain and suffering. But such a gift can be a burden, too.
Before long, the Urrea ranch is crowded with pilgrims and with agents
of a Mexican government wary of anything that might threaten its
power.
作者
About the Author
Luis Alberto Urrea is
the author of Across the Wire, winner of the Christopher Award,
and By the Lake of Sleeping Children. He is the recipient of an
American Book Award, a Western States Book Award, and a Colorado
Book Award, and he has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall
of Fame. His poetry has been included in The Best American Poetry,
and his most recent book, Six Kinds of Sky, won the 2003 ForeWord
Magazine award for best book of the year. He and his family live
outside Chicago.
Honors for The
Devil's Highway
---
Finalist for
the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
--- Winner of
the 2004 Lannan Foundation Literary Award for Non-Fiction
--- Finalist
for the 2005 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize for Non-Fiction
--- Southwest
Book of the Year, as named by the Border Regional Library Association
--- National
best-seller
Best
Books of the Year list for:
--- Los Angeles
Times
--- Chicago
Tribune
--- Miami
Herald
--- San Francisco
Chronicle
--- Kansas
City Star
--- and many
more!
作者網站
more...
more...
國外書評...
|
繁體版
已售 |
類別：科普,自然科學
The
Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration
-
Engineering New Materials and Devices from Nature??
仿生學—科技來自於天性
-
by Peter Forbes
一雙手套與便鞋就可讓你如蜘蛛人飛簷走壁的時代也許很快來臨.因為科學家已揭開壁虎走壁的秘密,並非腳上裝了吸盤,壁虎腳趾底的皮瓣上數以萬計的細毛，才是得以在平滑的牆壁上爬行的武器.一批精密科技的專家正在研究如何應用此強大的功能.源自仿生學的研發並非新聞,魔鬼粘即是成功的產品,芒刺末端的鉤狀構造,經過發明人George
de Mestral'的嘗試和改進,成為目前應用廣泛的固定裝置,生活中到處可見.模擬生物的特異功能,創造聰明科技,是目前科學家的焦點,也將是未來趨勢
...
Summary
A
cutting-edge science book in the style of FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM
and CHAOS from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science
writing. Bio-inspiration is the new engineering. Instead of - in
its crudest terms - welding large piece of hard 'dry' right-angled
metal together scientists, architects and engineers are looking
at imitating (or mimicking) nature by manufacturing 'wet' materials
such as spider silk or the surface of the gecko's foot. The amazing
power of the gecko's foot has long been known - it can climb a vertical
glass wall and even walk upside down on the ceiling - but nothing
could be done with it because its mechanism was beyond the power
of optical microscopes. Recently though the secret of the gecko's
foot has been solved by a team of scientists in Portland, Oregon
who have established that the mechanism really is dry, and that
is does not involve suction, capillary action or anything else the
lay person might imagine. Each foot has iGBP million bristles and
each bristle ramifies into hundreds of finer spatula-shaped projections.
The fine scale of the gecko's foot is beyond the capacity of conventional
microengineering but a team of nanotechnologists have already made
a good initial approximation. The gecko's foot is just one of many
examples of this new 'smart' science. In Peter Forbes' accessible
and engaging book we also discover, amongst other things, how George
de Mestral's brush with the spiny fruits of the cocklebur inspired
him to invent Velcro; how the shape of leaves opening from a bud
has inspired the design of solar-powered satellites; how scientists
are trying to mimic the self-cleaning leaves of the Scared Lotus
plant to create the first self-cleaning pane of glass; and the parallels
between cantilever bridges and the spines of large mammals such
as the bison. The new 'smart' science of Bio-inspiration is going
to produce a plethora of products over the next decades that will
transform our lives, and force us to look at the world in a completely
new way. It is science we will be reading about in our papers very
soon; it is the science of tomorrow's world.?
作者
About the Author
Peter
Forbes has written a series of articles on Biomimetics for The Guardian
and a chapter on the same subject for The Guardian’s book, Frontiers
03. He translated Primo Levi’s personal anthology, The Search for
the Roots (Penguin Press) in 2001 and Bloodaxe published his latest
poetry anthology We Have Come Through in 2003.
more... |
簡體版權
已售 |
類別：經濟
，歷史
The
Tycoons: How
Andrew Carneigie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan
Invented the American Supereconomy
實業大亨：
安德魯•卡內基、約翰•洛克菲洛、杰伊•古爾德以及 J. P. 摩根如何塑造美國的超級經濟強權
-
edited by Charles R. Morris
當今美國的經濟強權不免歸功於以下四位實業大亨的影響：鋼鐵大王-- 安德魯•卡內基、石油大亨-- 約翰•洛克菲洛、股市大亨-- 傑伊•古爾德以及
銀行家--- J. P. 摩根。這四位所謂 鍍金時代的實業巨人，儘管適逢「時事造英雄」的時代因而致富，但也同時奠定美國自19世紀以來累積各項資源，成為今日世上最富有，最具創造力，最有生產力的國家。本書作者以新聞從業人的角度生動描繪這四位巨人的成長環境，性格，以及他們如何善用個人位居樞紐，掌握利用大環境的時機，創造個人財富之餘，同時能夠上至左右當時的政治經濟決策，下至影響下游的製造業者及最末端的消費者，儘管毀譽參半，但終究成為「英雄造時事」的典範...
Summary
Acclaimed
author and journalist Charles R. Morris vividly brings these four
men to life. On one side are Carnegie, the ruthless competitor;
Gould, the provocateur in the shadows; and Rockefeller, the visionary
who understood how to manage sprawling empires. These three were
obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. In steel, railroads,
oil, and money markets, they rallied behind a single-minded code:
bigger, cheaper, faster. And then there was Morgan, the gentleman
businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American
business. Through their competition over the last decades of the
nineteenth century, they built a powerful nation populated with
consumers as well as producers, fostering the growth of the middle
class. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined
men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation
of full economic participation that could not have been imagined
only a few decades earlier.
作者
About the Author
Charles
R. Morris 著有九本書，包括
American Catholic and Money, Greed, and Risk. 定期為洛杉磯時報撰文，並不定期在其他媒體發表文章
，例如 The
Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and The Atlantic Monthly.
He is a lawyer and former banker, and was most recently president
of a financial services software company. He lives in New York City.
* 本書預計2005
年1 0 月 出版，所以沒有書評，還未校對完成樣書 已經完成， 待索即可提供 。
more...
more... |
|
簡繁體版權已售 |
類別：文學
Improbable
不可能
-
by Adam
Fawer
Format: 平裝, 416頁, 2005年2月出版
當《美麗境界》遇上《追殺比爾》
近年來懸疑小說因為《達文西密碼》的成功，帶動起一股出版熱潮，混雜著神秘歷史細節和陰謀的驚悚小說紛紛出版。很多出版商都在熱切地尋找著下一位Dan
Brown，在這股熱潮中的其中的一本小說就是Adam Fawer的《不可能》（Improbable）...
Summary
大衛楷恩是一個強迫性的賭徒。這個哥倫比亞大學統計四年級的博士研究生能精確地用頭腦推算機率，他用紙牌和生命來賭博。他所不能預料到的是他患有一種毀滅性的癲癇，並且發作的頻率越來越高。但是，誰也不能阻止他在紐約的地下紙牌館裏謀取財富。直到一次最嚴重的癲癇發作，他錯算了牌，欠下俄國黑社會大筆賭債。
於是他決定用最快的方式去籌措債款，他簽下一份契約同意測試一種實驗性藥物。癲癇雖然立刻被控制，但是他突然有看見過去,
現在, 和未來的能力;這樣令人驚訝的能力也為他帶來意料之外的後果，逼使大衛和他患有精神分裂症的雙胞胎兄弟與一位美麗的CIA幹員展開逃亡，以躲避各方人馬的追殺。
作者
About
the Author
Adam Fawer擁有賓州大學大學和碩士學位以及史丹福工商管理學院MBA學位。他曾經在包括新力音樂,
J.P. 摩根,等任職及擔任About.com的ＣＥＯ。這是他的第一本小說。
* 本本書2005 年2月 出版，已有樣書可提供審閱 。目前已經被翻譯成12種語言。
more...
more... |
| |
類別：紀實文學
大眾文化 賭博
BUSTING
VEGAS – The
MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees
MIT神奇小子海削賭場記
-
by Ben Mezrich (紐約時報暢銷小說 BRINGING
DOWN THE HOUSE作者)
Format: 精裝 304頁,
HarperCollins 即將於2005年10月出版
這是21歲MIT 神奇小子 Semyon Dukach 的賭場傳奇. 數學天才Semyon Dukach發展出一套賭場前所未見的系統
(將於本書中揭露), 不是一般常見的算牌, 也完全沒有不合法, 讓這群MIT的小子在拉斯維加斯, 大西洋城, 巴塞隆納, 倫敦
以及蒙地卡羅無往不利的賺進了數百萬美元, 但也幾乎讓Semyon Dukach賠上生命.人性的貪婪, 永不滿足的物慾, 愛, 性,
恐懼和統計數字, 交織成一本極具娛樂性且難以置信的真實故事...
作者
About the Author
Ben Mezrich哈佛大學優等獎畢業.
專事寫作 目前已出版8 本書
more...
more... |
|
|
類別：社科.商業
ANY
TIME, ANY WHERE
catch顧客心-
該如何全方位的討好你的客戶
-
by ROBERT SPECTOR
在本書中，作者提出實際的案例:成功的銷售員總是從不會把注意力從他們的客戶身上移開，並會分享市場上的成功經驗。在美國很多地方，許多總類的公司早已把“全方位的服務”當作是圭臬，透過網路這種全新的聯繫系統，結合對顧客經驗的所有元素，借用科技帶來的便利，提供一個極具競爭力的體系...
Summary
The
recent cooling of Internet and "new-economy" fever does
not mean that the net will not be a factor in business. Most of
us like the net's ease of access to product information and ordering
possibilities, while smart companies find that relying on the net
can lower their customer acquisition, order, and resupply costs,
help them track customer credit and purchase history, and make it
easier to target advertising. Spector (Nordstrom Way) shows how
successful bricks-and-mortar firms incorporate the features of the
web into their strategies for better service and more sales. Sample
companies include Nordstrom, Frederick's of Hollywood, Powell's
Books (in Oregon), Fedex, REI, Well's Fargo Bank, and the San Francisco
Giants baseball club. As Spector shows, the key for success is seamless
coordination between in-store and FAX, e-mail, phone, and web features.
Spector does a thorough job of covering the ramifications of Internet
and business service, and busy managers will like the succinct summaries
at the end of each chapter.
作者
About the Author
ROBERT
SPECTOR是在客戶服務方面有名的專家。他是AMAZON.COM,
THE NORDSTORM WAY 的作者，並在THE
NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, NASDAQ MAGAZINE
上有專欄。他住在華盛頓西雅圖，並有自己的網站
more... |
| |
|
|
