Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji―the world's largest marketplace for seafood―is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as ...(展开全部)

Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji—the world's largest marketplace for seafood—is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as ...(展开全部)

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers ...(展开全部)

麦高登（Gordon Mathews），香港中文大学人类学系主任。著作包括《全球文化/个人身份：在文化超市中寻求家园》（Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket）、《人生的意义是什么？日本人和美国人如何理解他们的世界》（What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds）及《香港，中国：培育国家认同》（Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation），并合编过多本书籍。 译者杨玚，香港中文大学学能提升研究中心研究助理。译著包括《香港重庆大厦：世界中心的边缘地带》、...(展开全部)

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers ...(展开全部)

麦高登（Gordon Mathews），香港中文大学人类学系主任。著作包括《全球文化/个人身份：在文化超市中寻求家园》（Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket）、《人生的意义是什么？日本人和美国人如何理解他们的世界》（What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds）及《香港，中国：培育国家认同》（Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation），并合编过多本书籍。 译者杨玚，香港中文大学学能提升研究中心研究助理。译著包括《香港重庆大厦：世界中心的边缘地带》、...(展开全部)

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(展开全部)

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(展开全部)

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is yo...(展开全部)

费莉希蒂·海斯-麦科伊出生在爱尔兰的都柏林。作为一名撰稿人，她的作品所涉及的领域包括电视和广播戏剧、故事片、纪录片、剧本和改编本，电影剧本，音乐剧本，儿童文学和互动多媒体作品。 她的丈夫威尔弗雷德·贾锝是一名歌剧导演，他们夫妻二人平时居住在爱尔兰的寇卡戴瑞夫尼和伦敦的博蒙德塞区。烹饪，园艺和写作是她最喜欢的事情。 《世界尽头的图书馆》是她的小说处女作。