An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels...(展开全部)

'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execu...(展开全部)

Outlines a thirty day program to overcoming anxiety, with daily exercises and mantras to help readers manage the emotion.

From a 5 Under 35 winner, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time. Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls, Yu...(展开全部)

游朝凯（Charles Yu） 生于1976年，美籍华裔作家。著有长篇小说《科幻宇宙生存指南》和短篇集《三等超级英雄》《对不起，请，谢谢》等。 游朝凯是第二代移民，毕业于加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校和哥伦比亚大学法学院。小说发表于《牛津美国人》《盖茨堡评论》《哈佛评论》等刊物。 2004年凭短篇小说《三等超级英雄》获舍伍德•安德森小说奖。2007年，美国国家图书基金会评选游朝凯为“5位35岁以下杰出作家”。2011年，《科幻宇宙生存指南》被堪萨斯大学科幻小说研究中心评定为年度最佳科幻小说第二名，即坎贝尔纪念奖亚军。 目前游朝凯与妻子及两个小孩居住在加州圣莫尼卡。

游朝凯（Charles Yu） 生于1976年，美籍华裔作家。著有长篇小说《科幻宇宙生存指南》和短篇集《三等超级英雄》《对不起，请，谢谢》等。 游朝凯是第二代移民，毕业于加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校和哥伦比亚大学法学院。小说发表于《牛津美国人》《盖茨堡评论》《哈佛评论》等刊物。 2004年凭短篇小说《三等超级英雄》获舍伍德•安德森小说奖。2007年，美国国家图书基金会评选游朝凯为“5位35岁以下杰出作家”。2011年，《科幻宇宙生存指南》被堪萨斯大学科幻小说研究中心评定为年度最佳科幻小说第二名，即坎贝尔纪念奖亚军。 目前游朝凯与妻子及两个小孩居住在加州圣莫尼卡。

作者太史文（Stephen F. Teiser），普林斯顿大学铃木大拙讲座教授、宗教学系终身教授。 太史文早年毕业于欧柏林学院，后就读于普林斯顿大学宗教学系，主攻东亚宗教，1986年获博士学位。太史文的博士论文题目为《中国中世纪的盂兰盆节》，这篇论文为他今后研究中国中世纪的民间信仰打下了基础，1988年，他在原博士论文的基础上修订出版了他的成名作——《中国中世纪的鬼节》（The Ghost Festival in Medieval China, Princeton University Press, 1988）。 译者侯旭东，清华大学人文学院历史系教授。 北京师范大学历史系博士，历任中国社会科学院历史研究所研究员、清华大学人文学院历史系教授。曾在美国哈佛大学、台湾“中研院”历史语言研究所做访问学人。主要研究魏晋南北朝史，兼及秦汉。先后从事东晋南朝经济...(展开全部)

Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities o...(展开全部)

Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities o...(展开全部)

An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honor. 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...' For Leil...(展开全部)