A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages. What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, ...(展开全部)

Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick—the kind who ...(展开全部)

A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages. What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, ...(展开全部)

Meryem, a fifteen-year-old girl, lives in a rural village on the shores of Lake Van in Eastern Turkey. Her simple life changes dramatically after her uncle, a sheikh in a dervish order, rapes her. She is considered an outcast for shaming her family. When she is locked in a shed and left alone for days, she comes to the painful realization that her family expects her to hang her...(展开全部)

Joseph Campbell is one of this century's great disseminators of the psychological wisdom of mythology. One of the basic functions of myth, he contends, is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a travel guide to reach fulfillment — a map to discover "bliss." In Pathways to Bliss , Campbell once again draws on his masterful gift of storytelling to apply ...(展开全部)

A dazzling exploration of our wish for innocence and ignorance—and its consequences. Aristotle claimed that “all human beings want to know.” Our own experience proves that all human beings also want not to know. Today, centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerized crowds still follow preposterous prophets, irrational rumors trigger fanatical acts, and magical thinking crowds ou...(展开全部)

Cheryl Simone, an Atlanta real estate developer, was the typical baby boomer in search of an authentic spiritual experience. Professionally successful, yet spiritually arid, she discovered a way into what she was looking for in the teachings of Sadhguru. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a Master, Mystic, and Yogi from South India. The master is an open doorway to divinity. He offers a...(展开全部)

Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. Unhappy people living in profoundly unstable states, he notes, inspire pathos and make for good copy, but not for good karma. So Weiner, admitted grump and self-help book aficionado, undertook a year's research to travel the globe, looking for the "unhe...(展开全部)

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in...(展开全部)

《纽约时报》畅销书 Borders原声奖图书 Barnes & Noble发现新人奖图书 BookSense 杰出图书 一个美国记者， 手持幸福指南针， 游走世界十国， 从地理到心理， 绘就一幅色彩斑斓的幸福地图。 寻找《世界上最幸福的地方》也许一路曲折，但很高兴你没有迷路。 这本书是旅行手册吗？没错，但又不全是。纵观这趟历时一年的探索之路，你会发现，这其实是一本思想的游行手册。我游历世界，希望凭一己之力解决这个时代的一些迫切问题：幸福生活需要哪些必要因素？为什么有些地方比其他地方幸福？地理如何造就我们？飞机为什么不能供应像样点的午餐？ 这本书是新闻报道吗？并不全然。可以说它是新闻报道的一种变体。像我这样的驻外记者，喜欢出访一些不幸的国度（如伊拉克、阿富汗），采访那里不幸的民众（如难民、战争孤儿）。但有时，这些故事也会让人心情低落。因此，在这本书中，...(展开全部)