Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgements on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days aren't typical reminiscences. After 24 years, Joerg - a convicted murderer...(展开全部)

Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller uses his evocative powers and the insight gained by four years in the forests of the Wolong and Tangjiahe panda reserves to document the pli...(展开全部)

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

媒體推薦 美國獨立飲食生活美學雜誌《Kinfolk》第9期，本期主題將聚焦於「週末」，提案美好週末生活。輕鬆悠閒的時光和閒適自在的心態，讓你從忙碌的步調中找回週末、找回生活，也找回自己。 你如何過週末？現代人的生活還有週末嗎？有孩子的人能夠享受週末嗎？本期的《Kinfolk》依舊為讀者們獻上了風格獨具的文章與攝影作品、食譜、手繪插圖，還有創作者以及店家的專訪與介紹。更重要的是，本期內容將大篇幅探討「週末」這個主題，告訴你大家都是如何度過週末，提供運用閒暇時間的美好提案，更將引導你找到工作與玩樂之間最完美的平衡。除此之外，由《Kinfolk》提案的美好生活概念，能教你重拾活力、避免在休假日工作，更找回生命中閒散自適的美妙時光，進入深層的放鬆狀態。滿載所有關於「週末」這個主題的美好發想，絕對不容錯過！

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The beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories, six of which have never been published. With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor was regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the admired master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered stories that illuminate the human cond...(展开全部)

New from Magnum Photos member Harry Gruyaert, a collection of photographs of airports and people in transit. Alongside American photographers such as Saul Leiter, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, and William Eggleston, Harry Gruyaert became one of the first European pioneers to explore the creative possibilities of color photography in the 1970s and 1980s. The previous decades h...(展开全部)

In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchan...(展开全部)

威廉•特雷弗 （1928－2016） 爱尔兰当代文学大师，被《纽约客》誉为“当代英语世界最伟大的短篇小说家”。出生于爱尔兰科克郡米切尔斯敦一个中产阶级新教家庭，在外省度过童年时代，后到都柏林圣三一学院历史系求学，毕业后先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案。从一九五四年起，和妻子移居英国。 自一九五八年出版第一部长篇小说《行为标准》以来，已创作近二十部中长篇小说、数百篇短篇小说，还著有多部戏剧剧本、童书及散文集。先后三次获得英国惠特布雷德图书奖，五次入围布克奖，一度是诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。二○○二年，英国女王伊丽莎白二世授予骑士爵位。二○○八年，获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖。 二○一六年十一月，病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。