Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the same importance as the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This is a study of his cult...(展开全部)

At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historica...(展开全部)

Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Patrick Hanan places him in the society of his day, where even his precarious livelihood, his constant search for patronage, did not dampen his versatility, his irreverent wit, or his jocund spirit. Li was...(展开全部)

A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then, Dr. Alexander's own brain was attacked by a rare i...(展开全部)

埃本•亚历山大（Eben Alexander） 美国知名神经外科医生。在过去的20多年中，一直都做着神经外科医生的工作和相关领域的研究。他曾在布莱根妇幼医院和哈佛医学院供职。 其作品《天堂的证据》一经面世就在国际出版界引起轰动，之后一个月内卖出英国、德国、荷兰、俄罗斯、澳大利亚、巴西、日本、韩国等35国版权。 想了解关于他更多的信息，请访问www.lifebeyonddeath.net。

Internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander always considered himself a man of science. His unwavering belief in evidence-based medicine fuelled a career in the top medical institutions of the world. But all this was set to change. One morning in 2008 he fell into a coma after suffering a rare form of bacterial meningitis. Scans of his brain revealed massive damage...(展开全部)

埃本•亚历山大（Eben Alexander） 美国知名神经外科医生。在过去的20多年中，一直都做着神经外科医生的工作和相关领域的研究。他曾在布莱根妇幼医院和哈佛医学院供职。 其作品《天堂的证据》一经面世就在国际出版界引起轰动，之后一个月内卖出英国、德国、荷兰、俄罗斯、澳大利亚、巴西、日本、韩国等35国版权。 想了解关于他更多的信息，请访问www.lifebeyonddeath.net。

This is a provocative look at the history, politics, and perils of intelligence testing. Despite well documented shortcomings and a controversial history, intelligence tests continue to be used widely in schools, in the workplace, and even in the courtroom. Combining excellent scholarship with highly readable prose, "IQ" tells the fascinating story of intelligence testing from ...(展开全部)

This is a provocative look at the history, politics, and perils of intelligence testing. Despite well documented shortcomings and a controversial history, intelligence tests continue to be used widely in schools, in the workplace, and even in the courtroom. Combining excellent scholarship with highly readable prose, "IQ" tells the fascinating story of intelligence testing from ...(展开全部)

Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of "The Well of Ascension" only by becoming a Mistborn hims...(展开全部)