约翰·伯格（John Berger），英国艺术评论家、小说家、画家和诗人。1926 年出生于英国伦敦。1944年至1946年在英国军队服役。退役后入切尔西艺术学院和伦敦中央艺术学院学习。20世纪40年代后期，伯格以画家身份开始其创作生涯，于伦敦多个画廊举办展览。1948年至1955年，他以教授绘画为业，并为伦敦著名杂志《新政治家》撰稿，迅速成为英国最有影响力的艺术批评家之一。 1972 年，他的电视系列片《观看之道》在BBC播出，同时出版配套的图文书，遂成艺术批评的经典之作。小说《G》为他赢得了布克奖及詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖。2008 年，伯格凭借小说《A致X：给狱中情人的温柔书简》再次获得布克奖提名。2017年1月2日，约翰·伯格在法国安东尼去世。

The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety. At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and ...(展开全部)

At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. He decides to have his wife's portrait painted from his favourite photographs of her and picks five arbritary phone numbers under "artists". The story follows Max's comical and moving encounters with the artists.

My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty, and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jo...(展开全部)

一行禅师 在汉传佛教中传统中，出家人都以“释”为姓，“一行”是他的法号，因此人们直接称呼他为“一行禅师”。一行禅师毕生宣扬非暴力的和平理念与正念生活之道。1967年，被美国黑人民权运动领袖马丁･路德･金提名为当年诺贝尔和平奖候选人。1982年，在法国南部建立了“梅村”禅修中心，并经常赴世界各地弘法。2001年，获美国哈佛大学医学院身心研究所颁赠的首个“身心灵贡献奖”。代表作有《正念的奇迹》《你可以不生气》《活得安详》《一心走路》等。其著作被翻译成30多个国家的语言文字，在欧美畅销书排行榜中曾两度进入前10名，长期畅销不衰。

A New York Times bestseller! Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling middle grade novel Out of My Mind. Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even summer camp. There have to be camps f...(展开全部)

A New York Times bestseller! Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling middle grade novel Out of My Mind. Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even summer camp. There have to be camps f...(展开全部)

Opening with a child's ascension to the Chinese throne, this novel charts the complexities of courtly life, as a boy of few talents is suddenly thrust into a position of power. The dramatisation of the dark side of nation-building, this is also a deft exploration of the failings of human nature.

Opening with a child's ascension to the Chinese throne, this novel charts the complexities of courtly life, as a boy of few talents is suddenly thrust into a position of power. The dramatisation of the dark side of nation-building, this is also a deft exploration of the failings of human nature.

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