What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earlies...(展开全部)

本书为威廉·拜纳姆和海伦·拜纳姆（William&Helen Bynum ）合著。 威廉·拜纳姆是耶鲁大学医学硕士，剑桥大学医学博士，现是伦敦皇家医师学院的研究员，伦敦大学学院名誉教授，研究医学史已超过35年。海伦·拜纳姆在伦敦大学学院学习人类学和医学，后在利物浦大学教授医学史，现在是一个自由编辑，作家和讲师。在本书之前，二人合著的《医学传记辞典》屡获殊荣。

美国著名数学史家。1934年在弗吉尼亚大学获学士学位，第二年为哈佛硕士，然后在普林斯顿大学继续学习，1948年获俄勒冈州立大学数学博士学位。 20世纪40年代以来，他相继在纽约锡拉丘兹大学、普吉特湾大学和俄勒冈州立大学任教，1954年到新成立的缅因州立大学，直到1976年退休。退休以后，他“像从美国最东的顶点滚下的石头”，从缅因州立大学的Machias和Lubec分校直到东南角的中佛罗里达大学。 他一生写过30本书，200多篇论文。两卷《几何考察》是他的权威著作，而两卷《数学史上的里程碑》是他关于数学历史的43个精彩演讲。 2004年6月6日去世，享年93岁。 {以上资料来源于《数学圈3》中译本序}

A portrait of world civilization told through the fascinating stories of the world’s greatest cities. A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of urbanization in Mesopot...(展开全部)

A portrait of world civilization told through the stories of the world's greatest cities from ancient times to the present. Today, for the first time in history, the majority of people in the world live in cities. The implications and challenges associated with this fact are enormous. But how did we get here? From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global met...(展开全部)

This collection of stories describes the events surrounding a particular challenge a project manager faced or a tool that another used effectively. Project managers of all types of projects can draw on these stories to validate their own good practices and to avoid the pitfalls.

Should he follow the sound of the drums?<br > He could hear it all beginning again: the nervous rattle of<br > practicing drums， the shuffle that precedes the parade. The sound<br > was almost irresistible， because in American politics it is when the<br > parade is falling in that it is most exciting. He had followed those<br > sounds for twenty years， across the cou...(展开全部)