Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's is an enviable life (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close?raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her own life. After Elf's latest...(展开全部)

Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went on to make a lot of money. In a work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Herbert's daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, ...(展开全部)

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and droppe...(展开全部)

Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went on to make a lot of money. In a work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Herbert's daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, ...(展开全部)

巴勃罗·卡萨尔斯 (1876-1973)，西班牙大提琴家、指挥家、作曲家。他以惊人的演奏和表现才能，提高了大提琴作为独奏乐器的地位。其许多作品的录音都成为以后几代演奏家们公认的楷模。 卡萨尔斯发现并率先演奏了巴赫的6首大提琴独奏组曲《Suites for solo C ello》，这是他一生中最大的功绩。卡萨尔斯说，他在巴赫的作品中，看见上帝的存在。他把自己的一生都献给了巴赫的音乐，并于1958年被提名诺贝尔和平奖 。 艾伯特·E.卡恩 (Albert E.Kahn)，出生于英国伦敦，毕业于达特茅斯学院，是位多才多艺的作家。大学时即是优秀的运动员，也获得克劳弗坎贝尔文学奖学金。以撰写政治事件文稿闻名。此外，他的《和乌拉诺娃共度的日子》被誉为芭蕾舞界的重要著作。他拍摄许多著名芭蕾舞女演员的照片，被纽约公共图书馆的表演艺术图书馆和博物馆收藏。 译者 姬...(展开全部)

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's-book-for-adults teaches ...(展开全部)

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's-book-for-adults teaches ...(展开全部)

As a deputy commissioner for the ICC, Alan Decker's job is to make sure the settlements on LV178 follow all the rules, keeping the colonists safe. But the planet known as New Galveston holds secrets, lurking deep beneath the toxic sands dubbed the Sea of Sorrows. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has secrets of its own, as Decker discovers when he is forced to join a team of merce...(展开全部)

As a deputy commissioner for the ICC, Alan Decker’s job is to make sure the settlements on LV178 follow all the rules, keeping the colonists safe. But the planet known as New Galveston holds secrets, lurking deep beneath the toxic sands dubbed the Sea of Sorrows. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has secrets of its own, as Decker discovers when he is forced to join a team of merce...(展开全部)

查默斯.约翰逊是美国对日政策研究所所长、加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校荣誉退休教授，也是《洛杉矶时报》和《国家》周刊经常性的撰稿人。他此前的著作包括《通产省与日本的奇迹》、《日本：谁统治》和不久前出版的、在美国引起不小反响的《后焰》。