AN UNPRECEDENTED PORTRAIT OF A GREAT YOGA TEACHER AND THE WAYS IN WHICH TEACHINGS AND TRADITIONS ARE PASSED ON It is a rare and remarkable soul who becomes legendary during the course of his life by virtue of great service to others. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois was such a soul, and through his teaching of yoga, he transformed the lives of countless people. The school in Mysore that he...(展开全部)

罗里·麦克林 Rory MacLean，集英国皇家学会文学奖、加拿大评委会、英格兰评委会荣誉奖，温斯顿·丘吉尔旅行奖，并获得国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖提名于一身。这本《柏林：一座城市的肖像》是其定居柏林后的杰作，荣登华盛顿邮报十佳读物。至今为止他已有九本著作，其中包括 十分畅销的《斯大林的鼻子》和《巨龙之下》。他给予了非虚构类社科作品创造性的写法，不仅学识深厚，且文笔优美，令人喟叹。他的作品广受青睐，他以敏锐的洞察力，扎实的学识征服了学界与大众。除此以外，作者还为BBC写广播剧本，以及创作电影剧本。 译者 傅敬民，博士，上海大学外国语学院教授《上海翻译》执行主编。中国翻译协会理事，上海市科技翻译学会副会长，上海市外文学会常务理事。翻译出版《年轻的狮子》，《亚当·比德》等译著十四部。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

在线阅读本书 When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty its...(展开全部)

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic.

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic.

We in the west share a common narrative of world history—that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a whole civilization that until quite recently saw itself at the center of world history, and whose citizens shared an entirely diffe...(展开全部)

作者簡介 塔米‧安薩里（Tamim Ansary，1948-） 塔米‧•安薩里生於阿富汗喀布爾，並且在當地接受中壆育直到移民美國奧勒岡州。他所著的回憶錄《喀布爾之西，紐約之東（West of Kabul， East of New York）》被選為舊金山2008年當年度的選書(ONE BOOK ONE CITY)，另外和阿富汗地雷爆炸的遇難者法拉•阿瑪迪（Farah Ahmadi）共同寫作了紐約時報暢銷書《另一邊的天空（The Other Side of the Sky）》。塔米姆•安薩里是一些小學歷史教科書的主要作者。他每個月都會為Encarta.com網站撰寫專欄文章，並且在San Francisco Chronicle，Salon，Alternet， TomPaine.com, Edutopia, Parade, L.A. Time等媒體...(展开全部)

We in the west share a common narrative of world history—that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a whole civilization that until quite recently saw itself at the center of world history, and whose citizens shared an entirely diffe...(展开全部)