The halls are decked, the tree is trimmed, and one young boy is wide awake and watching for a special late-night visitor. But waiting isn't easy--especially when every little noise sounds like Santa! Includes 24 flash cards. Full color.

The halls are decked, the tree is trimmed, and one young boy is wide awake and watching for a special late-night visitor. But waiting isn't easy--especially when every little noise sounds like Santa! Includes 24 flash cards. Full color.

A literary event--a major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime. From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Ph...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·索特 (James Salter，1925—2015)，美国小说家、短篇小说作家。成长于纽约曼哈顿，毕业于西点军校，做过战斗机飞行员。1957年出版长篇小说《猎手》，后全职从事写作。 主要作品有长篇小说《一场游戏一次消遣》（1967）、《光年》（1975 ）、《 独面》（1979）、《这一切》（2013），短篇小说集《暮色》（1988）、《昨夜》（2005），回忆录《燃烧的日子》（1997）等。曾获得福克纳奖（1989）、迈克尔•雷短篇小说奖（2010）、《巴黎评论》哈达达奖（2011）、马拉默德小说奖（2012）等。 . 译者简介： 刘伟，毕业于北京大学中文系，自由译者、撰稿人。

内容紹介 高校時代、大好きで仕方なかった先輩からの想いを拒んでしまった一束。十三年後、仕事仲間として香港で再会したふたりは…？ 内容（「BOOK」データベースより） 香港からの転校生・一束は、日本にも教室にもなじめずに立入禁止の旧校舎でまどろんでばかりいる。そんな一束だけの世界を破ったのが、二つ先輩の圭輔だった。まっすぐな圭輔にやがて心を許し、どうしようもなく惹かれていったのに、向けられる想いを拒んでしまった一束―十三年後、新聞社香港支局長になった圭輔と仕事相手として再会し…。

弗雷德里克·巴斯夏（Frederic Bastiat）是法国的经济学家、政治家与作家，古典自由派经济学的代表人物。他被视为自由经济的伟大先驱，包括哈耶克（F.A. Hayek）、黑兹利特（Henry Hazlitt）、罗斯巴德（Murray N. Rothbard）在内的很多著名经济学家都深受其影响。

弗雷德里克·巴斯夏（Frederic Bastiat）是法国的经济学家、政治家与作家，古典自由派经济学的代表人物。他被视为自由经济的伟大先驱，包括哈耶克（F.A. Hayek）、黑兹利特（Henry Hazlitt）、罗斯巴德（Murray N. Rothbard）在内的很多著名经济学家都深受其影响。

How much should we trust the polls on the latest electoral campaign? When a physician tells us that a diagnosis of cancer is 90% certain or a nutritionist tells us what is healthy to eat, what should we believe? Questions such as these are greatly important, yet many of us have only a vague sense of how to answer them. In Is That a Fact?, Mark Battersby aims not only to explain...(展开全部)

How much should we trust the polls on the latest electoral campaign? When a physician tells us that a diagnosis of cancer is 90% certain or a nutritionist tells us what is healthy to eat, what should we believe? Questions such as these are greatly important, yet many of us have only a vague sense of how to answer them. In Is That a Fact?, Mark Battersby aims not only to explain...(展开全部)