A visual guide to the way the world really works Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded by information - from television, from newspapers, from the internet, we're steeped in it, maybe even lost in it. We need a new way to relate to it, to discover the beauty and the fun of information for information's sake. No dry facts, theories or statistics. Instead, Informa...(展开全部)

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed...(展开全部)

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed...(展开全部)

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first...(展开全部)

生命由眾多美好事物組成，其中最棒的，就是飲食…… 《生命饗宴》以飲食為基調，搭配作者感人的文筆，以一年365天為範圍，每日一篇小品文章，將飲食融合在文學、旅遊、歷史、哲學、音樂、趣聞、生活感懷等主題之下。 這本精緻的散文作品裡，作者每天信手拈來一篇優美的文章，看似隨筆記下，卻蘊含著無窮美好的經驗與故事，行文間甚至可以隱約聽見餐廳刀叉碰撞的清脆聲響、鍋具在爐火上的滋滋聲音，以及略帶嘈雜的人聲、腳步聲、美食的香味和甜點。 此外，書中還記錄許多名人軼事，例如作家莫泊桑在世時最痛恨艾菲爾鐵塔的醜陋，因此天天到鐵塔底下去吃午餐，免得見到它。另外還包含了詩人拜倫的餐點祕密、英國皇室待客的菜餚、狄更斯《小氣財神(聖誕頌歌)》裡的聖誕大餐介紹、「鐵達尼」沈船前的最後晚餐等。內容包羅萬象，知識豐富又有趣。

The classic of common-sense economics. "Enormously broad in scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology."-- The New Republic

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth - and all complex life s hares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solu...(展开全部)

Profound exploration of the current wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance.In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, ...(展开全部)

朱迪斯·巴特勒，美国当代极具影响力的理论家，2012年度阿多诺奖获奖者。1956年生于美国俄亥俄州克利夫兰，1984年于耶鲁大学获得哲学博士学位，现任教于加州大学伯克利分校修辞学与比较文学系，在女性主义理论、酷儿理论、政治哲学、伦理学、犹太哲学等领域著述颇丰，主要著作有《欲望主体》《性别麻烦》《身体之重》《权力的精神世界》《偏激话语》《安提戈涅的诉求》《消解性别》《说明自身》《战争框架》等。

埃文·波斯特（Erving Polster） 美国心理学家，心理学泰斗，完形疗法宗师。美国加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校医学院精神病学系临床副教授、圣地亚哥分校格式塔中心主任。 现已年过九寻的埃文·波斯特，在长达几十年的心理咨询服务、心理疾病治疗和心理学研究中，改进了心理成长智慧和治疗技术，为心理学发展和心理治疗构建了新的思维框架。这些技术和框架是数千万名心理咨询师入行的必学知识。他与已故妻子米里亚姆·波斯特合著有《格式塔综合疗法》等作品。