凯特•莫顿（Kate Morton） 澳大利亚作家。生于1976年，成长于昆士兰东南区的群山中。小时候的她经常躲起来读书，并相信阅读的快感犹如偷尝禁果。长大后，她专修戏剧艺术与英国文学，钟情于19世纪的悲剧文学和当代哥特小说。 2007年，她因《雾中回忆》一举成名，轰动 全球。作品版权售出39个国家和地区，并被翻译成33种语言；单在英国，出版第一周，每天售出一万册。如今，她已四度获得代表澳洲书业最高荣誉的“年度最佳图书”大奖，是澳洲最大的版权输出端，也是版税收入最高的新一代作家。2013年，她以最高票数成为“澳大利亚最受欢迎的作家”。 近年，她与她的作曲家丈夫以及三个小孩生活在布里斯班。 如想了解更多信息，可访问她的官网： http://www.katemorton.com

Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina. Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older bro...(展开全部)

Meg Medina is the author of the YA novels Burn Baby Burn; Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, winner of the Pura Belpré Author Award; and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind. She also wrote the picture books Mango, Abuela, and Me, a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor Book, and Tía Isa Wants a Car, recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. She lives in Richmond, Virgi...(展开全部)

Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private concerns lead to public involvement and public participation that eventually lead back to those private conce...(展开全部)

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two...(展开全部)

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, S...(展开全部)

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, S...(展开全部)

Shifting Stories explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. Sarah M. Allen focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult. She demonstrates...(展开全部)