From a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on the remote Azorean Islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Reporter Diana Marcum is in crisis. A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her—and her career is stalled—when she stumbles upon an unusual group of immigrants living in rural California. She follows them on...(展开全部)

作者残雪，原名邓小华。先锋派文学的代表人物，其作品以关注女性内心的状态为特征，是具有鲜明个性化创造风格的作家，她着眼于深层的精神世界，不断开拓和挖掘，在中国文学界是一个极为独特的存在。她的很多作品很早就被海外文学界翻译和介绍，代表作《黄泥街》、《苍老的浮云》等。

爱默生•艾格里奇（Emerson Eggerichs），国际知名的婚姻问题专家，传播学硕士，婚姻与家庭生态学博士。在30多年的婚姻咨询工作中，爱默生逐渐发现了经营家庭和婚姻的真谛——爱与尊重，并通过开设婚姻讲堂等形式，将此理念传播出去，帮助众多夫妻重获幸福婚姻。 同时，爱与尊重的理念也延伸到家庭教育领域，其作品《父母需要尊重，孩子需要爱》一经出版，即荣登《纽约时报》畅销书榜，受到众多父母的广泛好评。

作者残雪，原名邓小华。先锋派文学的代表人物，其作品以关注女性内心的状态为特征，是具有鲜明个性化创造风格的作家，她着眼于深层的精神世界，不断开拓和挖掘，在中国文学界是一个极为独特的存在。她的很多作品很早就被海外文学界翻译和介绍，代表作《黄泥街》、《苍老的浮云》等。

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)

Written by an eminent and original thinker in the philosophy of science, this book takes a fresh, unorthodox look at the key philosophical concepts and assumptions of the social sciences. Mario Bunge contends that social scientists (anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, economists, and historians) ought not to leave philosophy to philosophers who have little expe...(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)

The idea that we might be robots is no longer the stuff of science fiction; decades of research in evolutionary biology and cognitive science have led many esteemed thinkers and scientists to the conclusion that, following the precepts of universal Darwinism, humans are merely the hosts for two replicators (genes and memes) that have no interest in us except as conduits for rep...(展开全部)

The idea that we might be robots is no longer the stuff of science fiction; decades of research in evolutionary biology and cognitive science have led many esteemed thinkers and scientists to the conclusion that, following the precepts of universal Darwinism, humans are merely the hosts for two replicators (genes and memes) that have no interest in us except as conduits for rep...(展开全部)

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.' Fifty-one years have passed since Fermina rebuffed Florentino and married Juvenal Urbino instead. Swearing his love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's husband is killed, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can youn...(展开全部)