Reads L to R (Western Style). In a perfect world, there is no escape In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It do...(展开全部)

Reads L to R (Western Style). In a perfect world, there is no escape In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It do...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Magic Tree House series has become a staple for inspiring kids to read. Christmas in Camelot is a very special Magic Tree House book. Here, author Mary Pope Osborne uses the literary skills for which she’s known to create a longer, more in-depth story featuring the characters kids have come to love. The result is magical: a fast-paced but detailed, easy-to-read st...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Magic Tree House series has become a staple for inspiring kids to read. Christmas in Camelot is a very special Magic Tree House book. Here, author Mary Pope Osborne uses the literary skills for which she’s known to create a longer, more in-depth story featuring the characters kids have come to love. The result is magical: a fast-paced but detailed, easy-to-read st...(展开全部)

Walter Piston（1894-1976）是祖籍意大利的美国作曲家。他除了从事创作外，还著有和声、对位方面的音乐理论专书，曾任哈佛大学音乐系主任。

赵旭东，1965年生于河北省承德市，祖籍浙江省桐庐县。1992年毕业于河北师范大学，获心理学硕士学位，1998年毕业于北京大学社会学系，获法学博士学位，研究方向为社会人类学。现任职于北京大学社会学系、北京大学人类学研究所，同时受聘于南开大学历史学院，兼任客座研究人员。已 发表研究论文二十余篇。

赵旭东，1965年生于河北省承德市，祖籍浙江省桐庐县。1992年毕业于河北师范大学，获心理学硕士学位，1998年毕业于北京大学社会学系，获法学博士学位，研究方向为社会人类学。现任职于北京大学社会学系、北京大学人类学研究所，同时受聘于南开大学历史学院，兼任客座研究人员。已 发表研究论文二十余篇。

A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnn...(展开全部)

欧大旭。他生于台北，长成于马来西亚，先后受教于吉隆坡的一所天主教学校及英国剑桥大学。

Conrad, Maugham, and Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. Now, with The Harmony Silk Factory, we have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape. Through his examination of a mysterious and larger than life character-hero or traitor?-Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis.