Age Range: 9 - 12 years Grade Level: 4 - 7

Age Range: 9 - 12 years Grade Level: 4 - 7

布赖恩·奥尔迪斯（Brian Aldiss），1925年出生于英格兰诺福克郡。他在牛津从事书商工作时发表了他的第一部小说《亮泉日记》（1955）。作为世界科幻小说创作领域最重要的作家和批评家之一，奥尔迪斯不仅发表了多种诗歌作品和批评著述，而且创作了四十多部长篇小说，三百多个短篇小说，获得过所有重要的科幻小说奖项。

伊恩•布鲁玛(Ian Buruma，1951— )，生于荷兰海牙，先后在荷兰和日本就学，曾于莱顿大学攻读中国文学和历史，后专注于研究日本。现任纽约巴德学院（Bard College）民主、人权与新闻Henry R. Luce教授。出版的著作有：《面具背后》（又名《日本之镜》）、《罪行的报应：日本和德国的战争记忆》、《伏尔泰的椰子》、《传教士和浪荡子》、《异议分子》、《西方主义》、《发明日本：1853—1964》、《零年：1945》等。

A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, an...(展开全部)

A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, an...(展开全部)

伊恩•布鲁玛(Ian Buruma，1951— )，生于荷兰海牙，先后在荷兰和日本就学，曾于莱顿大学攻读中国文学和历史，后专注于研究日本。现任纽约巴德学院（Bard College）民主、人权与新闻Henry R. Luce教授。出版的著作有：《面具背后》（又名《日本之镜》）、《罪行的报应：日本和德国的战争记忆》、《伏尔泰的椰子》、《传教士和浪荡子》、《异议分子》、《西方主义》、《发明日本：1853—1964》、《零年：1945》等。

The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenges of long-term spaceflight—the devastating effects on the body, the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts o...(展开全部)

The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenges of long-term spaceflight—the devastating effects on the body, the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts o...(展开全部)

From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine—and the business of wine?and set in, bien sûr, Provence. Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire?and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it’s definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him. Heartily and happily distracted upon his...(展开全部)