中译本：佛陀的女儿：南传佛教大修行人的传奇心灵 （此中译本有一些翻译错误，建议阅读英文原版） 译者： 周和君 出版社：台湾橡树林 初版日期：2003年09月09日 蒂帕嬷(Dipa Ma, 1911-1989)是当代南传上座部佛教传统中有大成就的一位女性阿罗汉, 她对于现代内观禅修界, 和西方南传佛教界影响深远。印度现代第一个内观禅修中心的创始人, 尊敬的拉斯特帕拉长老(Venerable Rastrapala Mahathera )是她的学生, 当今美国的佛教禅修导师杰克.康费尔德(Jack Kornfield), 莎伦.萨尔斯堡(Sharon Salzberg), 约瑟夫. 葛斯坦(Joseph Goldstein)也都是她的弟子。 蒂帕嬷的内观传承来自于缅甸的马哈希西亚多。

On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters--the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where life can develop. And the deep sea, which has been immersed in total darkness...(展开全部)

Nick Lane is a professor of evolutionary biology at University College London and an award-winning author of five books. He is the codirector of UCL’s Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution (CLOE) and lives in London, England.

From the renowned biochemist and author of The Vital Question, an illuminating inquiry into the Krebs cycle and the origins of life. What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living...(展开全部)

Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.

Gribbin takes us through the basics with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity' - "Sunday Times". The world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom seem to get it right - even other people continue to baffle us. How do we make sense of it all? In fact, John Gribbin reveals,...(展开全部)

Gribbin takes us through the basics with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity' - "Sunday Times". The world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom seem to get it right - even other people continue to baffle us. How do we make sense of it all? In fact, John Gribbin reveals,...(展开全部)

Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses. In just seven years–from 1950 through 1956–Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the th...(展开全部)

利娅·伯曼 (Lea Berman) 2004—2007年担任乔治·W.布什和劳拉·布什的社交秘书。此前曾担任美国前副总统理查德·切尼的社交秘书、前副总统夫人琳恩·切尼的幕僚长等职。 杰里米·伯纳德 (Jeremy Bernard) 2011—2015年担任贝拉克·奥巴马和米歇尔·奥巴马的社交秘书与总统特别助理。此前曾担任美国驻法国大使高级顾问、美国国家人文基金会联络员等职。