"海伦•聂尔宁（Helen Nearing，1904-1995） 本书作者海伦•聂尔宁，出生于美国东海岸新泽西州的一个富裕和睦的家庭，独立、聪慧而富于奉献精神。海伦与斯科特一同进行了一场长达50多年的奇特生命实践——远离都市、回归自然、独立耕作、自力更生。在斯科特去世后，海伦独立经营“美好生活中心”（The Good Life Center）。1995年，海伦在居住的山区小路上因车祸丧生，时年九十二岁。她一生自著或与丈夫合著出版了八本书。 斯科特•聂尔宁（Scott Nearing，1886-1985） 美国20世纪最伟大的和平主义者及环境与生态保护倡议者之一。曾任美国宾夕法尼亚州大学经济学教授及俄亥俄州托利多大学文理学院院长兼政治学教授，由于政治观念与言论与主流差异太大而被开除。之后，以独立耕作、写作、演讲为生。斯科特于百岁高龄生活无法自理之时，自...(展开全部)

罗素（Bertrend Russell,1872-1970）,出身于英国贵族家庭，20世纪声誉卓著、影响深远的思想家之一。在98年的生涯中，完成了40多部著作，涉及哲学、数学、科学、伦理学、社会学、教育、历史、宗教与政治等。他的首要事业和建树是在数学和逻辑领域，对西方哲学产生了深刻的影响。

This book presents 27 years of Deanna Dikeman photographing her parents waving goodbye as she left their home after a visit. Just as she was driving away, Dikeman invariably pointed her camera at her parents. What started with a candid snapshot in 1991 turned into a ritual over the years. The book chronicles their farewells as seasons change and years go by, separating black an...(展开全部)

Mathematics is often thought of as the coldest expression of pure reason. But few subjects provoke hotter emotions--and inspire more love and hatred--than mathematics. And although math is frequently idealized as floating above the messiness of human life, its story is nothing if not human; often, it is all too human. Loving and Hating Mathematics is about the hidden human, emo...(展开全部)

We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible—a good-enough life for all. Avram Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, dam...(展开全部)

We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible—a good-enough life for all. Avram Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, dam...(展开全部)

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the "good life." But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standards of living? While we all may want to live the good life, we differ widely on just what that entails. ...(展开全部)

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the "good life." But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standards of living? While we all may want to live the good life, we differ widely on just what that entails. ...(展开全部)

The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition. Ross's book, originally published in 1930, is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The central concern of the book is with righ...(展开全部)

#1 European bestseller: the indispensable new work from the author of the international and Sunday Times bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly Have you ever... · Spent too long on a powerpoint presentation? · Lost sight of what makes you happy? · Failed to reach a long-term goal? · Become infuriated by queuing, tax or parking tickets? · Broken a promise you knew you'd keep? Si...(展开全部)