The best-selling textbook in its field, "The Last Dance" offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying. Integrating the experiential, scholarly, social, individual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, this acclaimed text provides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives. The ninth e...(展开全部)

Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection, One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes their distinct atmosphere, she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters, from a lonesome priest to battling br...(展开全部)

维多利亚·希斯洛普（Victoria Hislop） 英国当代女作家。早期在《星期日电讯报》《每日电讯报》《妇女与家庭》等开设专栏，以优美温婉的文笔和清新感人的故事享有盛誉。2006年，长篇处女作《岛》甫一出版，即力压《达芬奇密码》《哈利·波特》等书，登上英国各大畅销书排行榜榜首。2008年，《回归》出版，荣膺英国年度畅销小说。2011年，出版《线》。2014年出版《日出酒店》。2012年，出版短篇小说集《蓝色咖啡馆和绿色咖啡馆》。

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and...(展开全部)

This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki's whereabouts leads him deeper into a labryrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and...(展开全部)

This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki's whereabouts leads him deeper into a labryrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World

As the world races towards catastrophe, a crowd of Mayfair socialites parties its way to oblivion. At its centre is David, who idles away his sober moments researching a futile book until the beautiful Helen decides to save him, shattering his marriage and learning too late the depth of both David's indolence and his wife's undeclared love. But with finances about to crash and ...(展开全部)

故事比较普通，父亲看着女儿成了著名的舞蹈家，临终前女儿赶回来，在父亲面前跳了一支舞。非常朴实无华。 全书用油画来展现一个场景，来表现深沉的父爱和时光的无情。每个场景都是一个凝固的瞬间，就好像留在父亲记忆里的永恒画面。

故事比较普通，父亲看着女儿成了著名的舞蹈家，临终前女儿赶回来，在父亲面前跳了一支舞。非常朴实无华。 全书用油画来展现一个场景，来表现深沉的父爱和时光的无情。每个场景都是一个凝固的瞬间，就好像留在父亲记忆里的永恒画面。