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)

在线阅读本书 Book Description "This book provides a strong foundation for impending entrepreneurs to aid, in determining the possible positive outcomes of the venture" - Marcy Freed, President, Vital Stim Incorporation. "This book deals very bravely with the opportunity of technology entrepreneurship. This is a great, and a courageous effort" - Jerome S. Engel, Executive Director, ...(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)

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries. Finding George Orwell i...(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)

弗兰克•维尔切克（Frank Wilzcek）由于在攻读研究生期间发现夸克粒子的渐近自由，于2004年荣获诺贝尔物理学奖。他现任麻省理工学院物理系教授，拥有“赫尔曼•费什巴赫教授”的荣誉称号，并受聘于上海交通大学维尔切克量子研究中心。他在1989年出版的著作《渴望和谐》（Longing for the Harmonies）被《纽约时报》列为当年的优秀读物。他常年为《自然》杂志和《今日物理》供稿，他的文章曾入选《美国科学写作精选》（Best American Science Writing）和《诺顿打油诗选》（Norton Anthology of Light Verse）。

弗兰克•维尔切克（Frank Wilzcek）由于在攻读研究生期间发现夸克粒子的渐近自由，于2004年荣获诺贝尔物理学奖。他现任麻省理工学院物理系教授，拥有“赫尔曼•费什巴赫教授”的荣誉称号，并受聘于上海交通大学维尔切克量子研究中心。他在1989年出版的著作《渴望和谐》（Longing for the Harmonies）被《纽约时报》列为当年的优秀读物。他常年为《自然》杂志和《今日物理》供稿，他的文章曾入选《美国科学写作精选》（Best American Science Writing）和《诺顿打油诗选》（Norton Anthology of Light Verse）。