1900年出生于德国法兰克福。曾在法兰克福精神分析研究所和社会研究所工作，并成为法兰克福学派的重要代表。1933年赴美讲学，开设私人诊所。1974年移居瑞士，继续从事研究和著述。1980年卒于瑞士洛迦。 弗罗姆是精神分析学家，又是哲学家，是当代西方精神分析学派的理论权威，影响广大而深远。继弗洛伊德的“无意识”，荣格的“集体无意识”之后，弗罗姆提出的“社会无意识”，成为了无意识理论发展史上树立的第三个里程碑。他提出的精神分析学说无论在人格理论、梦的分析、精神治疗以及伦理学等方面都有独到的见解。他融合当代西方哲学、社会学、人类学、史学和宗教等多种学科的思想成果，来探索人性和灵魂的奥秘，在精神分析社会文化学派中可谓独树一帜。

Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers--and you will have entered an insect world once beyond imagining, a world observed and described down to its tiniest astonis...(展开全部)

In 1645 the Japanese samurai Musashi Miamoto wrote "A Book of Five Rings," which described the attitudes necessary for individual success. Though he was a swordsman, his book was not limited to combat but addressed the much broader question of how to achieve excellence in life through study, discipline, and planning. It is still avidly read in Japan today. Arthur Kornberg's b...(展开全部)

In 1645 the Japanese samurai Musashi Miamoto wrote "A Book of Five Rings," which described the attitudes necessary for individual success. Though he was a swordsman, his book was not limited to combat but addressed the much broader question of how to achieve excellence in life through study, discipline, and planning. It is still avidly read in Japan today. Arthur Kornberg's b...(展开全部)

In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses , came under severe criticism for The Art of Love , which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious Roman’s mock-didactic ele...(展开全部)

Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman , is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the m...(展开全部)

A collection of stories which explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk.

阿敏娜妲·芙娜（Aminatta Forna），生于苏格兰，长于西非，现居伦敦。2007年，被《名利场》评为非洲最重要的新作家之一。 其处女作《在水面跳舞的恶魔》（The Devil That Danced on the Water）获得2003年萨缪尔·约翰逊奖决选，《祖先石》（Ancestor Stones）获得2008年项豪斯顿·莱特遗产奖、都柏林文学奖的提名，及被《华盛顿时报》列为2006年最有影响力的文学作品。 阿敏娜妲也为杂志、报纸、广播和电视写稿，撰写了一部关于非洲历史与艺术的电视纪录片。

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gift...(展开全部)

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gift...(展开全部)