A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she finds herself...(展开全部)

A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she finds herself...(展开全部)

"Caps for Sale" is a timeless classic, in print for over fifty years, and beloved by generations of readers. This easy-to-read story about a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity. Children will delight in following the peddlers efforts to outwit the monkeys in this new, enlarged, and redesigned edition, and will ask to read it ag...(展开全部)

After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die,...(展开全部)

伊沃•安德里奇(1892——1975),南斯拉夫塞尔维亚作家，一九六一年“因以史诗般写作天赋,深刻揭示与其国家历史交织在一起的人的命运的问题”而获诺贝尔文学奖.。 安德里奇出生于波斯尼亚特拉夫尼克附近的多拉克村，他的父亲是个手艺人，在安德里奇三岁时就去世了。之后，母亲带着他迁居维尔舍格拉德姑母家，并在那里度过了童年，城旁德里纳河上的大桥给了他深刻的印象。他在萨拉热窝上中学时，参加革命组织“青年波斯尼亚”。一九一四年因受奥地利皇位继承人弗朗茨-斐迪难在萨拉热窝被刺身亡案牵连，被奥地利当局逮捕，入狱三年。出狱后在萨拉热窝完成中学学业，然后去萨格勒布、维也纳和克拉科夫上大学，一九二三年通过了关于波斯尼亚文化史的博士论文，获格拉茨大学博士学位。 安德里奇的祖国波斯尼亚的历史和整个南斯拉夫的历史一样，是备受外国侵略和压迫的历史。早在十四世纪波斯尼亚就受到奥斯曼...(展开全部)

Wall Street on Sale is the inside story on how Warren Buffett, John Templeton, and other value investing legends built huge fortunes by never overpaying in the stock market. This common-sense guideboo

帕特里克·赛里姆·阿蒂亚（Patrick Selim Atiyah），曾任英国牛津大学法学院讲席教授，英国国家学术院（British Academy）院士，在合同法、侵权法和货物买卖法等领域享有极高的学术声誉。他编著了本书第1版（1957年）至第8版（1990年）。 约翰·诺曼·亚当斯（John Norman Adams），曾任英国谢菲尔德大学法学院讲席教授，英国文学和艺术版权协会主席，在合同法、知识产权法和货物买卖法等领域享有极高的学术声誉。他接替阿蒂亚编著了本书第9版（1995年）至第12版（2010年）。 克里斯蒂安·特威格-福莱斯纳（Christian Twigg-Flesner），现任英国华威大学法学院讲席教授，奥地利维也纳大学欧盟法研究中心理事，曾任英国赫尔大学法学院教授，主要研究领域为国际商法、英国商法、消费者保护法和合同法。他接替亚当...(展开全部)

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent ...(展开全部)

Raven is an assassin, a hired killer, and his brutal murder of the Minister of War raises the spectre of war across Europe.