麥可‧布林（Michael Breen） 出生於英國，成長期間住過葉門、德國、英格蘭和蘇格蘭，在愛丁堡大學主修英國文學和語言學，畢業後到北海鑽油平台工作了幾年。1982年以記者身分前往韓國，替多家報社報導南北韓情勢，包括英國的《衛報》與《泰晤士報》，以及美國的《華盛頓時報》。後來擔任諮詢顧問，提供企業與北韓相關的資訊，接著經營自己的公關公司，目前定居於首爾。其他著作有《金正日：北韓親愛的領導人》、《韓國人：他們是誰、他們想要什麼、他們的未來在何處》、《早年的文鮮明：1920年到1953年》。 譯者：方祖芳 專職譯者，第23屆與28屆梁實秋文學獎譯文組評審獎得主。譯作包括《一生設計》、《創意電力公司》、《飛行少年》、《跟蹤雷普利》、《迷走亞馬遜》、《走對下一步》等書。

A new nation has appeared within the United States since the Civil War, but it has been only accidentally connected with that catastrophe. The Constitution emerged from the confusion of strife and reconstruction substantially unchanged, but the economic development of the United States in the sixties and seventies gave birth to a society that was, by 1885, already national in i...(展开全部)

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of hum...(展开全部)

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day “Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little has changed over millennia. Progressing through the rise of cities, wages and markets for labour, it traces a perennial cycle of injustice and resistance—and the age-old desire ...(展开全部)

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of hum...(展开全部)

In his major new work, Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter – brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke, to the part it played in Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839–43, to its abandonment during Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition, and to its final rediscovery ...(展开全部)

When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around them, Aharon and his father miraculously survive, and Aharon, even more miraculously, escapes...(展开全部)

Book Description When World War Two broke out, Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old, the child of an assimilated, middle-class Jewish family in Czernowiz. After losing his mother, murdered early on in the Nazi occupation, and then his father; and after enduring the ghetto and the two-month forced march to the camp, the ten-year-old Aharon escapes and survives, miraculously, in...(展开全部)

阿哈龙•阿佩尔菲尔德（Aharon Appelfeld，1932—2018），以色列备受尊敬和多产的作家，著有各类小说及散文四十余部，享誉全世界。1983年他因在文学领域的突出贡献，获以色列国家最高荣誉奖“以色列奖”。他的作品不仅深受久经世事的中年读者的喜爱，而且受到年轻一代读者的热捧。代表作品有《奇迹年代》《爱，降临》《不朽的巴特法斯》《致灵魂》《直到黎明的曙光》《对话》《躲在树上的孩子们》《黑暗之花》等。

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)