Beloved Buddhist teacher and poet Thich Nhat Hanh offered the world much-needed words of calming wisdom in his previous book, Anger-a coast-to-coast bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Now, in a book both timely and timeless, he tackles a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five hundred years-and an eternal mystery that touches us...(展开全部)

Thich Nhat Hanh says: 'Our biggest fear is that we will become nothing when we die. If we think that we cease to exist when we die, we have not looked very deeply at ourselves.' With his usual blend of stories, exquisite analogies and guided meditations, Thich Nhat Hanh takes the reader through the same examination of death, fear and the nature of existence that Buddhist monks ...(展开全部)

Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. One of Einstein’s most admired colleagues...(展开全部)

Paul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einsteins most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. In 1933 he became the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Diracs personality, like his achievements, is l...(展开全部)

For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder...Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he’s a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.

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在线阅读本书 True fear is a gift. Unwarranted fear is a curse. Learn how to tell the difference. A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves, by learning to trust—and act on—our gut instincts. In...(展开全部)

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordi...(展开全部)

作者简介：格雷姆•法米罗（Graham Farmelo ），毕业于剑桥大学理论物理专业，伦敦科学博物馆的高级研究员，英国东北大学物理系的兼职教授。 译者简介：兰 梅，北京人，外交学院外交英语专业和澳大利亚Charles Sturt大学毕业；曾任职于中华人民共和国外交部和意大利蒙塞拉特基金会北京办事处。近年从事展览与文化项目策划并主持艺术与科学跨学科交流机构“关係社”www.guanxihouse.org，主要译著有《量子怪杰：保罗•狄拉克传》 《向死而生：莱昂内大传》等。 审校者简介：季燕江， 北京人，执教于北京科技大学理论物理系，曾在美国华盛顿特区进修，讲授量子力学，多体理论，自然科学史等课程。对科学论文的开放获取（open access）及科学文化感兴趣，曾创办国内第一个开放获取平台——奇迹文库http://www.qiji.cn/eprint...(展开全部)