In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven , Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own...(展开全部)

To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary throughout history. In this groundbreaking work-now with a new preface by the author-Yi-Fu Tuan reaches back into our prehistory to discov...(展开全部)

段义孚，是享誉世界的美国华裔人文主义地理学大师，在地理学理论、园林建筑、文学、宗教等研究领域都作出过举世瞩目的贡献。他关注人的问题，注重人性、人情，其思想见解发人深省，因而被公认为“拥有超然灵魂之正义之声”。他著作颇丰，代表作品有：《恋地情结：对环境感知、态度和价值观的研究》(Topophilia：A Studh of Environmental Perception，Attitudes ,and Values)、《经验透视中的空间与地方》(Spoce and Plac:The Perspective ofExPerience)、《撕裂的世界与自我：群体生活和个体意识》(Segmented Worlds and self:Group Life andIndividual COILSciousness)、《逃避主义》(Escapism)等等。 ...(展开全部)

In his previous books, Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain and mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders. Recently, however, he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice, and in light of recent neuroscientific evidence and theories. The River of Consciousness ...(展开全部)

◎著者 奥利弗・萨克斯，1933年出生于英国伦敦，2015年病逝于纽约。医学博士，英国皇家内科医师学会会员（FRCP），曾经是纽约大学医学院的神经内科学教授，被《纽约时报》誉为“医学界的桂冠诗人”。他仔细收集过多种神经系统异常案例，以丰富的临床经验为基础，著有《错把妻子当 帽子》《脑袋里装了2000出歌剧的人》《火星上的人类学家》等畅销书籍。其中，描述了20世纪初嗜睡性脑炎患者的《苏醒》一书启发了电影《无语问苍天》，该片曾获奥斯卡最佳影片提名。萨克斯博士曾长期为《纽约客》和《纽约书评》撰稿。 ◎译者 陈晓菲，人类学硕士，文学和精神分析爱好者。

The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human. (From Amazon)

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph—the killing machine known as the Alien. Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden,...(展开全部)

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph—the killing machine known as the Alien. Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden,...(展开全部)

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