Marly's father came back from the war a different man. Something inside him seems as cold and dead as the winter world outside. But when the family moves to Grandma's old house on Maple Hill, miracles begin to happen. The sap in the trees begins to rise, the leaves begin to turn, and Marly's father starts to bloom again, like the world around them.This wise and moving story is ...(展开全部)

Marly's father came back from the war a different man. Something inside him seems as cold and dead as the winter world outside. But when the family moves to Grandma's old house on Maple Hill, miracles begin to happen. The sap in the trees begins to rise, the leaves begin to turn, and Marly's father starts to bloom again, like the world around them. This wise and moving story i...(展开全部)

Here is a world of wonders from A to Z. Inspired by seventeenth-century French trade engravings, Anita Lobel's brilliant paintings of the shopkeepers on Market Street--each composed of his or her wares--will provide blissful hours for all who join the Lobels on an unforgettable shopping spree.

Here is a world of wonders from A to Z. Inspired by seventeenth-century French trade engravings, Anita Lobel's brilliant paintings of the shopkeepers on Market Street--each composed of his or her wares--will provide blissful hours for all who join the Lobels on an unforgettable shopping spree.

歐大旭 (Tash Aw) 在台北出生，父母是馬來西亞人。他成長於吉隆坡，從小生活在多語言、多族群的環境下，會說中文、廣東話、馬來語和英語。之後遠赴英國修習法律，曾於律師事務所服務，但最終決心專注寫作，並於東安格利亞大學完成文學創作碩士學位。迄今著有四部小說，每部皆佳評如潮，其中《和諧絲莊》（2005）獲惠特貝瑞圖書獎，以及大英國協作家亞太獎，隨後推出《沒有地圖的世界》（2009）、《五星豪門》（2013）、《倖存者，如我們》（2019）。他的著作兩度入選曼布克獎，已印行二十三種語言譯本，為近年在國際上最炙手可熱的馬來西亞華人作家。 譯者簡介 宋瑛堂 台大外文系畢業，台大新聞碩士，著有《譯者即叛徒？》，曾兩度入圍梁實秋翻譯大師獎，曾任China Post記者、副採訪主任、Student Post主編等職。文學譯作包括《內景唐人街》、《幸運之子》、《分...(展开全部)

Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decis...(展开全部)

Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decis...(展开全部)

Crisp, jargon-free and self-assured, this memoir traces a famous economist's rise from rural Germany to the top of Wall Street. Born in a remote farming village in the upper Hessen region in 1927, Kaufman emigrated to America at age 10, when his family left Nazi Germany after a raid on their house. In New York, his lack of English put him four years behind in school, although K...(展开全部)