"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordi...(展开全部)

With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survi...(展开全部)

The first comprehensive English-language biography of Pablo Neruda, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean writer, was born into a poor family in 1904. His love poems would go on to make him a household name throughout the Spanish-speaking world and win him international acclaim. His remarkable life reads like an advent...(展开全部)

History occasionally produces figures whose influence on their own and successive generations is immense. Marx, Freud and Lenin had such an influence, and so, Alister McGrath argues, does John Calvin. This book provides a fresh and lucid exploration of Calvin's life and influence, his theology and his political thought, and his determining of the course of European history. It ...(展开全部)

1900年出生于德国法兰克福。曾在法兰克福精神分析研究所和社会研究所工作，并成为法兰克福学派的重要代表。1933年赴美讲学，开设私人诊所。1974年移居瑞士，继续从事研究和著述。1980年卒于瑞士洛迦。 弗罗姆是精神分析学家，又是哲学家，是当代西方精神分析学派的理论权威，影响广大而深远。继弗洛伊德的“无意识”，荣格的“集体无意识”之后，弗罗姆提出的“社会无意识”，成为了无意识理论发展史上树立的第三个里程碑。他提出的精神分析学说无论在人格理论、梦的分析、精神治疗以及伦理学等方面都有独到的见解。他融合当代西方哲学、社会学、人类学、史学和宗教等多种学科的思想成果，来探索人性和灵魂的奥秘，在精神分析社会文化学派中可谓独树一帜。

Journey through the digestive systems of humans, farm and wild animals, and meet some of nature's ultimate recyclers as they eat, breed in and compete for dung. The fall of bodily waste onto the ground is the start of a race against the clock as a multitude of dung-feeders and scavengers consume this rich food source. From the enigmatic dung-rolling beetles to bat guano and gia...(展开全部)

乔舒亚•斯珀林 Joshua Sperling 生于纽约，成长于加利福尼亚，于耶鲁大学获得比较文学、电影与媒体博士学位，现任教于欧伯林大学，文章见于Brooklyn Rail, Guernica, Film Quarterly, Jump Cut， Bullett Magazine及众多出版物。

The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at art with Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist, he defend...(展开全部)

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary en...(展开全部)

Jedediah Purdy is Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.