Cherry blossom, hinoki, ezo spruce. Persimmon, maple, cypress. The trees of Japan are wondrous emblems of beauty that cast a spell on those who venture to its unique landscape. As a child, Aya Koda realized they were more than mere objects of beauty. Gifted a sapling by her father, she discovered that we depend on trees as much as they do on us. Markers of time passing, they cl...(展开全部)

安德烈·德昂，1935年出生于阿尔及利亚，日后到巴黎留学，从国立巴黎艺大学毕业后，在巴黎装饰美术学校教书，目前与妻子及女儿居住在巴黎。德昂已发表二十多部作品，被译为十几种语言。

贾森·古德温（Jason Goodwin）(1964-) 是名禀赋极高的作家，毕业于剑桥大学，专攻拜占庭史，最初是一名游记作家，第一本游记书出版于1980年，书名叫《茶的盛世：在中国与印度的觅茶之旅》，其后，他分别于1990和1993年写作了另外两本游记，在1998年出版了一本《奥斯曼帝国史》。古德温在近二十年里出书甚少，但这又何尝不是潜心研究、厚积薄发之举呢？经过多年在土耳其/近东地区文化中的浸淫和在东方土地上的实地考察，杰森•古德温在出版《奥斯曼帝国史》时俨然已经成为相关历史学科方面的权威，称古德温为奥斯曼史的“活字典”一点都不为过。 经过多年的酝酿，古德温在2006年出版了他的第一部虚构类作品《禁卫军之树》（The Janissary Tree）。小说甫一上市，就广获好评，截至目前，已有30种文字的译本。年初，本书获得了埃德加•爱伦坡奖的最佳长...(展开全部)

Iyengar developed a form of yoga that focuses on developing strength, endurance, correct body alignment, as well as flexibility and relaxation. The Iyengar method integrates philosophy, spirituality, and the practice of yoga into everyday living. In The Tree of Yoga, Iyengar offers his thoughts on many practical and philosophical subjects including family life, love and sexua...(展开全部)

Iyengar developed a form of yoga that focuses on developing strength, endurance, correct body alignment, as well as flexibility and relaxation. The Iyengar method integrates philosophy, spirituality, and the practice of yoga into everyday living. In The Tree of Yoga, Iyengar offers his thoughts on many practical and philosophical subjects including family life, love and sexua...(展开全部)

Ranging from the 1850s to the present and from Ontario to Brisbane and Albania, these eight linked stories are concerned with the daily threads of life in two small Ontario towns. All the stories centre on unconventional women who refuse to let themselves be constrained by society or everyday life.

Elite Guardians bodyguard Haley Callaghan may be in South Carolina, but when a photo leads investigators in West Ireland to open a twenty-five-year-old cold case, her life is suddenly in danger. Haley

It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers entered the village of Chupan Ya and rounded up the women and children. The bodies are said to lie in a mass grave. Dr Temperance Brennan digs in the cold, damp pit. From what her trowel uncovers, she knows that something savage happened back then.

Investigating a massacre that took place in Guatemala in 1982, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan discovers that those events are linked to the disappearance of four girls from Guatemala City, as well as the murder of a human rights investigator.