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類別：漫畫散文

OOHARASANCHI NO DANNASAN – KONOGORO SUKOSHI SHINKEISHO
大原家的老公

作者： 大原由軌子 (OOHARA YUKIKO)


ISBN ： 4-16-367870-0
初版日： 2006/01/30
出版社：文藝春秋

「手指沾到油污，讓人想抓狂？」馬虎決定的結婚對象是「精神官能症患者」？！這樣的我的結婚生活是天堂？還是 … ？雖然辛苦，但也意外地令人感到快樂！

一部描寫跟有精神官能症的老公的結婚生活的爆笑漫畫散文！

Summary

無論是煮飯、打掃全部都一手包辦的老公 … 但是，卻是個沒有正職的人，而且還是個精神官能患者！ 「魚乾女 * 」由軌子跟老公交往兩個月後閃電結婚，在體會老公的精神官能症這種「心病」後，創作出這本爆笑的漫畫散文。

在經歷用筷子吃洋芋片；出門前再三確認是否確實鎖門；外出時，太陽眼鏡與口罩是必備物品；吃藥一定要咬碎才吞下 … 等等衝擊性的事實，從初次見面到家中長子出生，大原家到底會發生些什麼事？在目前罹患心病的人數增加時，大原家的體驗記應該可以對大家有所助益。

作者 About the Author
大原由軌子 (OOHARA YUKIKO)
生於長崎縣佐世保市。 1970 年出生。短大畢業後，擔任過 14 年的平面造型設計者。本作品為作者以描寫與罹患恐慌症（ panic ）以及精神官能症（ neurosis ）的老公之間日常生活的處女作。又，老公是「去看精神科吧！」（文春文庫 PLUS ）一書的作者大原廣軌。

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類別：歷史文學

女巫入門
作者: 鏡龍司

新世紀的巫術指的就是崇尚心靈與自然的互動， 雖然芳香精油取代了蝙蝠翅膀， 但 不變的是對於自然的尊重。 草藥與追求自然的醫療知識， 隨著月圓與氣候變化的身體律動， 則都被誣陷為巫術 而失傳了，現在的歐洲人反而 透過中醫的世界重新拾回過去失落的知識。


Summary
巫術早在基督教傳入歐洲前就存在， 甚至可以追源至石器時代， 它是一種有生態意識的宗教， 那是一個崇信大地女神和狩獵眾神的宗教。 但是到了基督教進入歐洲後，除了一部份如萬聖節和崇拜聖母瑪麗亞的形式被容忍。 接受外， 所有古代的各種神祇都被指為(惡魔)和(妖精)，而只是單純崇拜這些神祇的人則被稱為(巫師)。



作者 About the Author
1968年生於京都，專為譯者、 心理占星術研究家。畢業於國際基督教大學， 並取得碩士學位。
為暢銷書(魔法?杖)的監譯者。 近作有《實現願望的28種魔法》、《塔羅牌:心的圖像學》等， 監譯的書則有《以月亮太陽了解性格事典》、《圖說世界占術大全》等。 擔任許多雜誌占星術特輯的監修工作。 活躍於電視、廣播及網路。現為英國占星術協會、英國職業占星術協會會員、日本超個人心理學學會常任理事， 且隸屬於數個巫師團體： 網站 www.ryzu-cafe.co.jp



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類別：青少年小說

The Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Disappearing Detective
貝克街男孩第一輯 – 消失的密探
- by Anthony Read


還記得《福爾摩斯探案》中，街上的孩童常是他的情報來源嗎？是的，《貝克街男孩》系列便是藉由這些孩童的眼光，跟隨著福爾摩斯的腳步，一??撥開英國維多利亞時代的幽暗迷霧。本系列作者 Anthony Read 在成為全職作家之前，便是知名的電視製作人，其作品包括英國 BBC 電視台的《福爾摩斯》系列影集，《貝克街男孩》系列便是以此影集為發想所創作出的全新冒險偵探小說，全系列共 6 輯，第二輯 The Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Captive Clairvoyant 與第三輯 The Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Ranjipur Ruby 也將於 2006 年陸續出版。

Summary

It is 1897, Queen Victoria 's diamond jubi lee year, and the Baker Street Boys are helping Sherlock Holmes solve a case involving a mysterious American when Holmes himself disappears. Only the Boys realize that he hasn't gone undercover but has actually been kidnapped by a Fenian gang from Boston who are planning to assassinate the Queen...

作者 About the Illustrator
Anthony Read studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London , and was an actor-manager at the age of eighteen. He worked in advertising, journalism and publishing and as a television producer before becoming a full-time writer. Anthony has more than 200 screen credits, for programmes that include Sherlock Holmes, The Professionals and Doctor Who. He has also written several non-fiction books, and won the Wingate Literary Prize for Kristallnacht.

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類別：青少年冒險•科幻小說系列
Dream Team -Mission 1 : Flying Solo
美夢快遞小隊六本
- by Ann Coburn

美夢快遞小隊即將展開首次單飛行動，把美夢送往全世界各地。乘著機車高來高去固然很有趣，可是當你只有七公分高時，人類的世界可就充滿了危機。維特在飛行時為暈眩所苦，蜜琪則誤送了惡夢，充滿罪惡感。史奈佛不計一切代價的要成為最佳快遞人員，海麗卻只想飛得夠遠夠快。有一天，史奈佛帶著海麗一同出勤，卻讓海麗險些變成凶貓的點心。這支快遞小組在羽翼豐滿之前，還有很長的路要走呢。

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The next obstacle was a huge wall fan. Harley brought her dreamskoot to a stop in front of it. Whump, whump, whump . The arms of the fan turned steadily. Harley nodded her head as she counted them off. Timing was everything with this obstacle. She took a deep breath and, after one more whump, guided her dreamskoot through the slats and into the fan.

作者 About the Illustrator
作者曾為舞台與電視寫過許多劇本，也為較大的孩子寫過幾本得獎小說，包括Glint,TheBorderlands Sequence.

 
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類別： 親子 養育 職業婦女

The Working Gal's Guide to Babyville: How to Nurture a Super Sleeper, Enthusiastic Eater and All-Around Contented Child While Managing Your Life and Career with Wildly Unexpected, Zen-Like

laptop V.S. feeding bottle- 新世代年輕媽咪的育嬰王道
- by Paige Hobey , Allison Nied


這是一本替初為人母的新世代職業婦女而量身打造的書。妳原來是一位在職場上有想法有目標的時代新女性，但隨著寶寶的誕生，卻使妳原本規劃良好、按部就班的生活一下被打亂了，馬上面臨著頓失秩序的混亂期。首先，是該繼續工作還是能全職在家 ? 是請保母還是自己?孩子 ? 在寶寶與工作壓力之下感到分身乏術，接著隨即而來是經濟上的考量，該如何在突然增加的開銷中，建立起新平衡 ? 不用擔心，本書就是替希望能在這種狀況中，找到一個方向的媽咪所寫的。作者集結了實際故事與來自姊妹的建言，小兒科醫生的育嬰資訊。從安撫寶寶入睡到好好利用產假；從工作與育兒時數間找到最完美的那一點；從周太太變成馬馬抱抱，以及該如何與其他的年輕父母建立人際網路，本書都能給妳最直接的、最需要的建議。容易實行的策略，讀來有趣簡單，送給今日每一位聰明、機智的準媽咪們。


Summary

A "Girlfriend's Guide" for the new millennium-the one book every working gal needs to read before, during, and after she experiences new motherhood

You're an independent career woman suddenly dropped into the chaos of Babyville. You have a newborn to care for, three months (if you're lucky) of unstructured time to fill, a work decision to make (to go back full-time? part-time? job share?), childcare to acquire, and family finances to balance. You need someone to make you laugh during the hard times, a doctor to c all in the middle of the night, and a good career counselor to boot.

作者 About the Author
PAIGE HOBEY：現職職業婦女，有 2 個不到三歲的寶寶。目前為 Parenting Magazine 與 Chicago Parent 的專欄作家。目前住在芝加哥。
ALLISON NIED: 專職小兒科醫生，現居於紐約。

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類別： 非文學 家庭關係 家庭價值 勵志

WHY DO I LOVE THESE PEOPLE? - Miraculous Journeys of 21st Century Families
家家有愛 - 21世紀家庭的神奇之旅
- by Po Bronson, 紐約時報暢銷書 WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? 作者

Format : 精裝 400 頁 , Random House 出版


Summary

何謂"幸福家庭 "? 在我們的想像中它應該是: 家庭中的成員從不吵架, 也不會互相挑剔毛病, 獨立的個人在家庭中都受到尊重, 且互相支持. 如果我們把真實的家庭情況與想像中的理想家庭相比, 難免不會失望; 但這樣的比較是不公平的. 在"家家有愛" 這本書中, 作者 Po Bronson 用一篇篇真實的小故事讓我們領會什麼是一個家庭最重要和最基本的.

Po Bronson 拜訪了700個人, 寫出19 篇小故事. 故事在德克薩斯州一條河邊展開, 一位母親溺水的故事; 其次是一位父親帶著女兒回到他們在遙遠中國的小村莊, 盼望能在兒時的家園重新建立彼此的愛; 接著我們看到一位小男孩在他墨西哥裔的媽媽身上第一次感受到神的偉 大...

一步一腳印, 這個旅程的每一段, 每一個家庭都是真實的. Po Bronson 以生動且帶有哲學洞察的筆觸, 探究我們對家庭的複雜情結. 有些人通過種種考驗, 終能守護住他們的家庭; 也有些人必須放掉, 才能找到生命中更值得珍惜的. 一篇篇面對人生挑戰的小故事, 成就了這本充滿了智慧的小書.

作者 About the Illustrator
PoBronson旅行各地，紀錄下真人真事的故事，對他研究有興趣的朋友，可上他的網站瀏覽 www.pobronson.com 。寫過五本書， 其中 WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? 為紐約時報暢銷書。目前專事寫作， 作品散見紐約時報，華爾街日報等等。

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類別： 傳記、娛樂與表演藝術

MY LIFE SO FAR
我的前半生
- by Jane Fonda

Format: 精裝 , 624 頁 , 2005 年4月出版

當代演藝界、商界、積極參與反戰、婦女運動的傳奇人物珍芳達，詳實揭露了她鎂光燈之外的前半生，不同於一般的名人自傳，它出人意料的感人 …

本書為好萊塢 70 年代紅星珍芳達的自傳，出身於影藝世家，因〈太空英雌〉一片走紅國際影壇，並以〈柳巷芳草〉(Klute,1971) 和〈返鄉〉(Coming Home ,1978) 兩度贏得奧斯卡最佳女主角，與父親亨利芳達、兄長彼德芳達同在好萊塢享有不凡的演藝成就。除了傑出影藝表現之外，珍芳達長期投入反戰和支持婦女運動，鮮明政治立場促使珍芳達成為當代女性典範和意見領袖之一。珍芳達在書中坦率地回顧自己的前半生，直言無諱地寫下生命中曾遭逢的喜樂悲歡、高低起伏，包括許多不為人知的秘密，例如為挽救婚姻不惜說服自己與法國導演丈夫 Roger Vadim 、妓女大玩 3P 遊戲，以及她曾經罹患長達 25 年的厭食症之外，珍芳達也描述了自己參與社會運動的心路歷程。藉由回憶錄的方式悼念生命的失落和痛楚，承認她所犯的錯誤和學到的教訓，強調了希望和責任的重要。傳記一推出即造成轟動，哥倫比亞電視網的新聞性節目”六十分鐘”並為其進行專訪。

Summary

She is one of the most recognizable women of our time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is so much more. From her youth among Hollywood 's elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her life today, Jane Fonda reveals intimate details and universal truths that she hopes “can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them a little differently.”

Fonda divides her “life so far” into three “acts,” writing about her childhood, first films, and marriage to Roger Vadim in Act One. At once a picture emerges: a child born to the acting legend Henry Fonda and the glamorous society princess Frances Seymour. But these early years are also marked by profound sadness: her mother's mental illness and suicide when Jane is twelve years old, her father's emotional distance, and her personal struggle to find her way in the world as a young woman.

By her second act, Fonda lays the foundation for her activism, even as her career takes flight. She highlights her struggle to live consciously and authentically while remaining in the public eye as she recounts her marriages to Tom Hayden and Ted Turner, and examines her controversial and defining involvement with the Vietnam War. As her film career grows, Fonda learns to incorporate her roles into a larger vision of what matters most in her life–and in the process she wins two Academy Awards, for Klute and for Coming Home.

In Fonda's third act, she is prepared to do the work of a lifetime–to begin living consciously in a way that might inspire others who can learn from her experiences. Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, Jane Fonda's My Life So Far is filled with universal insights into the personal struggles of women living full and engaged lives.

作者 About the Author
JANE FONDA was born in New York City in 1937. She attended the Emma Willard School in Troy , New York , and Vassar College . Fonda later studied with renowned acting coach Lee Strasberg and became a member of the Actors Studio in New York . Her subsequent work on stage and screen earned numerous honors, including two Best Actress Academy Awards– Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978)–and an Emmy Award for her performance in The Dollmaker. Fonda was also a successful producer, whose credits include The China Syndrome , Nine to Five , O n Golden Pond, and The Morning After .

Fonda revolutionized the fitness industry with the release of Jane Fonda's Workout in 1982, which remains the top-grossing home video of all time. She then produced twenty-three home exercise videos, thirteen audio recordings, and five bestselling books. She now focuses her time on activism and philanthropy, in such areas as adolescent reproductive health, pregnancy prevention, school reform through arts, and building resiliency in girls and boys by addressing destructive gender stereotypes. In 1995 she founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP), which she chairs. In 2002, she opened the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory University 's School of Medicine . She lives in Atlanta .

本書2005年4月出版，已售出14國版權，有英文樣書可提供審閱，簡體中文版預計2006年5月出版。

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類別： 科普人文，地理自然

Ice : The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
冰：一個令人驚訝的物質，它的本質、歷史及使用
- by Mariana Gosnell

比玻璃易碎，有時候有比鋼還要堅硬，有時候有可以像糖蜜那樣流動，冰這個物質展具地球表面的百分之十及海洋的百分之七。冰在自然界的呈現形式達上萬種」，從隆冬草地上一踩及碎的冰針到極地裡千年不溶冰山，甚至有科學家提出假設，認為冰慧星將地球生物起源的分子送到地球上來。本書分別專章介紹自然界或人類文明生活看得到的冰的現象，例如湖水結冰，冰柱，溜冰場 或日常生活裡冰箱的冰塊，探討冰如何塑造影響人類的生活，並分析冰和自然界和人類環境的關係。

Summary

Here is the whole world of ice, from the freezing of Pleasant Lake in New Hampshire to the breakup of a Vermont river at the onset of spring, from the frozen Antarctic landscape that emperor penguins inhabit to the cold, watery route bowhead whales take between Arctic ice floes. Mariana Gosnell writes about frostbite and about the recently discovered 5,000-year-old body of a man preserved in an Alpine glacier. She discusses the work of scientists who extract cylinders of Greenland ice to study the history of the earth's climate and try to predict its future. She examines ice in plants, icebergs, icicles, and hail; sea ice and permafrost; ice on Mars and in the rings of Saturn; and several new forms of ice developed in labs. She writes of the many uses humans make of ice, including ice-skating, ice fishing, iceboating, and ice climbing; building ice roads and seeding clouds; making ice castles, ice cubes, and iced desserts.

作者 About the Author
Mariana Gosnell was born and grew up in Columbus , Ohio , and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a major in fine art. She worked for many years at Newsweek , where she reported on medicine and science. She is the author of a previous book, Zero Three Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane, and her articles appear in many magazines including Smithsonian and National Wildlife . She lives in New York City and summers at Lake of the Woods in Canada .

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類別： 商業

How We Compete :
What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy
全球競爭力 —MIT 五年普查報告 ( 暫譯 )

- by Suzanne Berger and The MIT Industrial Performance Center

MIT 教授 Suzanne Berger 與 IPC 小組，五年內訪談全球五百大企業的經理人，涵蓋層面從高科技到傳統產業，訪問重點從生產線到競爭對手，本書呈現的不同對照，驗證企業在競爭全球化的壓力下，成長的模式並非只有委外生產單一途徑。

美國電腦公司 Dell ，以通路見長，零件全數委外生產，而韓國三星企業 Samsung ，採垂直整合方式，全部自製，一樣保有競爭力。因成本因素，美國成衣業的生產線幾乎全數外移，然而西班牙的知名服飾品牌 Zara ，半數以上國內生產，仍能穩定成長。透過本書務實而詳盡的內容，解析五百大的競爭力。

Summary
Based on a five-year study by the MIT Industrial Performance Center, How We Compete goes into the trenches of over 500 international companies to discover which practices are succeeding in today's global economy, which are failing –and why.

There is a rising fear in America that no job is safe. In industry after industry, jobs seem to be moving to low-wage countries in Asia, Central America, and Eastern Europe . Production once handled entirely in U.S. factories is now broken into pieces and farmed out to locations around the world. To discover whether our current fears about globalization are justified, Suzanne Berger and a group of MIT researchers went to the front lines, visiting workplaces and factories around the world. They conducted interviews with managers at more than 500 companies, asking questions about which parts of the manufacturing process are carried out in their own plants and which are outsourced, who their biggest competitors are, and how they plan to grow their businesses. How We Compete presents their fascinating, and often surprising, conclusions.

Berger and her team examined businesses where technology changes rapidly–such as electronics and software–as well as more traditional sectors, like the automobile industry, clothing, and textile industries. They compared the strategies and success of high-tech companies like Intel and Sony, who manufacture their products in their own plants, and Cisco and Dell, who rely primarily on outsourcing. They looked closely at textile and clothing to uncover why some companies, including the Gap and Liz Claiborne, choose to outsource production to foreign countries, while others, such as Zara and Benetton, base most operations at home.

What emerged was far more complicated than the black-and-white picture presented by promoters and opponents of globalization. Contrary to popular belief, cheap labor is not the answer, and the world is not flat, as Thomas Friedman would have it. How We Compete shows that there are many different ways to win in the global economy, and that the avenues open to American companies are much wider than we ever imagined.

作者 About the Author
SUZANNE BERGER is the Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science at MIT and director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative. She was a member of the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity, whose report, Made in America, analyzed weaknesses and strengths in U.S. industry in the 1980s . She lives in Boston , Massachusetts .

The MIT Industrial Performance Center
Brings researchers from engineering, social sciences, management, and science together for analysis fo industrial change in a global economy. Thirteen professors and students carried out the work reported in How We Compete. Established in 1991, the IPC is headed by Richard K. Lester.

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類別： 商業 個人理財

The Money in You! Discover Your Financial Personality and Live the Millionaire's Life
理財星象學 : 發現你的理財性向邁向百萬富翁之路
- by Julie Stav

Format: 精裝 , 288 頁 , 2006 年 7 月出版 , manuscript available

Summary

股票經紀人及紐約時報暢銷作家 Julie Stav 最有趣及吸引讀者的新作 . 作者以類似星象學的分類來界定理財宇宙的 5 類理財類型 . 代表各自的人格特徵 , 優點和缺點 . 這 5 類理財 星座為 —the Diva, the Do-Gooder, the Diligent Investor, the Dionysian, and the Dependable Horder— 各理財星座都以單獨章節陳述 , 以理財行為 , 名人範例 , 及現實生活中的真實案例來討論 . 並提供讀者可用來修正理財行為的準則 .

概述各理財類型的特徵後 , 作者盡心解釋各類型如何影響人際關係 – 金錢與愛情 , 金錢與孩子等等 . 作者所提供的友善及趣味的方法 , 讓一般人視為畏途的理財規劃 , 成為一項輕而易舉的任務 .

作者 About the Author
Julie Stav became a virtual household name in the United States via a PBS television special called “Get Your Share”, also the name of her New York Times bestselling book. She hosts a national hour-long Spanish language radio program and debuted a talk show on Univision, as well as her own magazine titled Tu Dinero . http://www.juliestav.com/en/content/julie_bio.htm

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