The Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher, G.I. Gurdjieff's autobiographical account of his youth and early travels has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive read in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff's unique perspective on life, it is organized around portraits of remarkable men and women who aided Gurdjieff...(展开全部)

Thomas Pakenham's beautifully illustrated, bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owes little to conventional botany. The sixty trees are grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. From the ancient native trees, many o...(展开全部)

With this astonishong collection of tree portraits, Thomas Packenham has produced a new kind of tree book. The trees are grouped according to their characteristics; roughly half are ancient native trees in the UK, while the rest are exotic newcomers from Europe.

This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature. The idea for the book, which i...(展开全部)

With this astonishong collection of tree portraits, Thomas Packenham has produced a new kind of tree book. The trees are grouped according to their characteristics; roughly half are ancient native trees in the UK, while the rest are exotic newcomers from Europe.

Thomas Pakenham's beautifully illustrated, bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owes little to conventional botany. The sixty trees are grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. From the ancient native trees, many o...(展开全部)

恩维尔·霍查(Enver Hoxha，1908年10月16日—1985年4月11日)，阿尔巴尼亚的政治家、社会主义者及国家领导人，曾任阿尔巴尼亚劳动党第一书记与总理，掌权达四十年之久。

[封面書介] 依葛吉夫之見，能被稱為奇人者，都具有機智橫溢的心智，並知道如何克 制出自本性的表現，同時也能對別人的弱點採取正當而寬容的態度，且由 此脫穎而出，出類拔萃。 本書正是描述九位「奇人」的影響力，如何貫穿葛吉夫的一生。 [封底書介] 第四道大師葛吉夫一直是個千變萬化、難以描述的神秘人物，他最常被問到 的問題是： 曾經遇過哪些奇人？ 一生中遇過什麼不凡的人事物？ 人有靈魂嗎？它是否不朽？ 人有自由意志嗎？ 生命是什麼？為什麼會受苦？ 相信玄學和降神術嗎？ 是什麼引導他走向第四道的體系？ 在本書中，葛吉夫談到他一生中最不為人知的階段，尤其與九位奇人相遇的 片段事蹟，除了可清楚解答以上的問題外，更是認識葛吉夫真正的鑰匙。 [目錄] 引言 我的父親 我的第一位導師 伯格切夫斯基 伯格遜船長 阿布鑾˙耶洛夫 尤里˙魯伯維斯基公爵 埃金˙貝 皮歐特˙卡本...(展开全部)

[封面書介] 依葛吉夫之見，能被稱為奇人者，都具有機智橫溢的心智，並知道如何克 制出自本性的表現，同時也能對別人的弱點採取正當而寬容的態度，且由 此脫穎而出，出類拔萃。 本書正是描述九位「奇人」的影響力，如何貫穿葛吉夫的一生。 [封底書介] 第四道大師葛吉夫一直是個千變萬化、難以描述的神秘人物，他最常被問到 的問題是： 曾經遇過哪些奇人？ 一生中遇過什麼不凡的人事物？ 人有靈魂嗎？它是否不朽？ 人有自由意志嗎？ 生命是什麼？為什麼會受苦？ 相信玄學和降神術嗎？ 是什麼引導他走向第四道的體系？ 在本書中，葛吉夫談到他一生中最不為人知的階段，尤其與九位奇人相遇的 片段事蹟，除了可清楚解答以上的問題外，更是認識葛吉夫真正的鑰匙。 [目錄] 引言 我的父親 我的第一位導師 伯格切夫斯基 伯格遜船長 阿布鑾˙耶洛夫 尤里˙魯伯維斯基公爵 埃金˙貝 皮歐特˙卡本...(展开全部)

An exuberantly acclaimed collection -- twenty-two stories that combine hilarity and an escalating disquiet as they expand our ideas of the pleasures fiction can afford.