Colin Beavan(科林·比万)，早年在英国的慈善团体工作，1992年回到美国从事写作工作。本书英文版出版后，已经向十余个国家和地区授予版权。本书吸引了全球许多主要媒体，如《纽约时报》、《基督教科学箴言报》(The Christian Science Monitor)的关注与报导。作者因本书受邀参加美国脱口秀节目《科尔伯特报告》(The Colbert Report)、《早安美国》(Good Morning America)等电视。广播节目的访问。他被MSN选为2007年十大最具影响力人物。美国时尚杂志Elle颁给他2008GreenAwards，并称他为“Eco-IIIuminator”。 Colin Beavan的NolmpactMan.com网站与博客，拥有上万名订阅者，吸引了数百万人浏览，被美国《时代》杂志选为全球十五大环保网...(展开全部)

Brilliant, original, funny and moving — a vivid portrait of Montaigne, showing how his ideas gave birth to our modern sense of our inner selves, from Shakespeare's plays to the dilemmas we face today. How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love— such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigge...(展开全部)

Brilliant, original, funny and moving — a vivid portrait of Montaigne, showing how his ideas gave birth to our modern sense of our inner selves, from Shakespeare's plays to the dilemmas we face today. How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love— such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigge...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question obsessed Re...(展开全部)

As the news stories go: "Colin Beavan is a liberal schlub who got tired of listening to himself complain about the world without ever actually doing anything about it..." Thus, in November, 2006, Beavan launched a year-long project in which he, his wife, his two-year-old daughter and his four-year-old dog went off the grid and attempted to live in the middle of New York City wi...(展开全部)