PARADISE ISLAND: A SATIRE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE FIND PARADISE AND THE ONLY THING LEFT TO CONQUER IS HUMAN NATURE ITSELF
Book ID/图书代码： 08729814B76709
English Summary/英文概要： Winner of the 2010 President’s Book Award ("Young Adult Fiction" category)
Our dreams, goals, and aspirations define who we are. But what happens when reality threatens them? PLEASURE ISLAND centers on the Map Maker’s seminal journey to the sunny, fun-filled isle of his dreams and his struggle to keep paradise found from becoming paradise lost. This book, a by-product of inspirational and literary fiction, explores the theme of subjectivity: We are subjective creatures and our subjective way of looking at the world both protects us and blinds us.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一位足不出户的哲学家的人性探索指南（或“当你洗尽铅华后悟出的人生真谛”）
Awards/获奖情况："A delectable dish of human foible." -- Justin Hurwitz, Editor, The Harvard Lampoon
About the Author/作者介绍： Brandon Royal是系列获奖教育类图书的作者。在总部设在美国卡普兰教育中心 — — 华盛顿邮报附属公司，世界最大的备考类组织 — —香港的任职期间，Brandon一直在磨砺他的教学和教育理论，制定了一套关键的学习"原理"来帮助定义写作、语法、数学和推理的基础知识。
Brandon在加拿大出生，毕业于芝加哥大学布斯商学院，完成哈佛大学写作课程之后，他萌生了写作的兴趣。从那时起，他的十余本书籍和他的书评时时出现在时间亚洲杂志、 出版家周刊、美国图书馆杂志、美国中西部书评、亚洲书评、选择在线评论、亚洲时报在线和 About.com上。Brandon曾荣获五届国际图书大奖，获得五次总统图书奖金奖，同时，他还是全球电子书奖，美国新闻"最佳图书奖"，和2011年"教育图书"年度奖的获得者。
Brandon Royal is an award-winning author who honed his theories of teaching and education while working in Hong Kong for US-based Kaplan Educational Centers, a Washington Post subsidiary, and the oldest and largest test-preparation organization in the world. A graduate of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and a certified public accountant, his interest in writing began after completing fiction and scriptwriting courses at Harvard University. Since then he has authored several books and written across a diverse spectrum of genres, penning fiction, nonfiction, short stories, essays, news articles, speeches, poetry, and personal quotations. Reviews of his books have appeared in Time Asia magazine, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal of America, Midwest Book Review, The Asian Review of Books, Choice Reviews Online, Asia Times Online, and About.com. In 2010, he won the International Book Awards and two gold medals at the President’s Book Awards.
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