The definitive biography of one of the most emigmatic, beloved, and celebrated artists of our time. Leonard Cohen's extensive and successful recent worldwide tour has demonstrated that his popularity across generations and borders has never been greater. Cohen's life is one of singular mystique. This major in-depth biography is the book Cohen's fans have been waiting for. Accla...(展开全部)

During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same time—and an informal book club of two was born. Through their wide-ranging reading, Will and Mary Anne—and we, their fellow readers—are r...(展开全部)

Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working ...(展开全部)

Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive,and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece. Miraculously com...(展开全部)

Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marriage to convey in rich detail a vanished way of life, including children's games, nurs...(展开全部)

本书是一本用英语介绍北京文化的书。经埃德加斯诺的介绍，作者罗信耀在 《北平时事日报》用英语向外国人介绍北京文化，后结集为The Adventures of Wu: The Life Cycle of a Peking Man，先后有英语版本和日语版本出版，在国外影响很大，一版再版，被认为是外国研究北京民俗的必备书籍。本书以主人公小吴爷爷去世、奶奶去娘娘庙祈福等经历带出北京习俗，以北京人从生到死的日常生活为主线，包括生子、婚丧嫁娶，也包括进香、赛马、上朝等，忠实记录了老北京多姿多彩的生活方式。尤其难得的是作者自身是旗人，他隐性地写出了一幅生动翔实的满族旗俗的风情画卷。这对我们理解北京文化的多民族形成和巨大包容性，勾勒中国乡愁的北京特色极具意义。本书以叙述为主，不仅趣味性高，可读性极强，罗信耀先生又善于版画，本书通过大量的生动插图，对我们还原那些老北京消...(展开全部)

Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marriage to convey in rich detail a vanished way of life, including children's games, nurs...(展开全部)

Here is the first major collection of the teachings of Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995), one of the first Japanese Zen masters to bring Zen to the West and founding abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Zen Mountain Center in Idyllwild, California. These short, inspiring readings illuminate Zen practice in simple, eloquent language. Topics include zazen and Zen koans, how ...(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)