The first comprehensive English-language biography of Pablo Neruda, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean writer, was born into a poor family in 1904. His love poems would go on to make him a household name throughout the Spanish-speaking world and win him international acclaim. His remarkable life reads like an advent...(展开全部)

With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survi...(展开全部)

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordi...(展开全部)

作者简介 菲奥娜·麦卡锡（1940—2020），英国知名传记作家、艺术史学家。尤以19—20世纪艺术和设计史研究为专长。著有《拜伦传 : 传记与传奇》《最后的拉斐尔前派：爱德华·伯恩-琼斯传》《埃里克·吉尔传》《格罗皮乌斯：包豪斯缔造者》等，广获奖誉。菲奥娜是英国皇家艺术学院高级研究员，皇家文学会会员，牛津大学玛格 丽特·霍尔夫人学会荣誉会员；2009年获赐英帝国官佐勋衔（OBE）。 —————————————— 译者简介 彭凌玲，武汉大学美学博士，大连理工大学建筑与艺术学院副教授。

美国著名的管理学大师。他是柯维领导中心的创始人，也是富兰克林柯维公司的联合主席。他是世界500强企业众望所归的新智慧学家，是美国家喻户晓的启蒙家。他的《高效能人士的7个习惯》一书销量过亿册，并被翻译成28种语言出版。

Iain Wilkinson is Reader in Sociology at the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research at the University of Kent. He is author of Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life, Suffering: A Sociological Introduction, and Anxiety in a Risk Society. Arthur Kleinman is a psychiatrist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry at ...(展开全部)

What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? In this trenchant work, Arthur Kleinman - a renowned figure in medical anthropology - and Iain Wilkinson, an awar...(展开全部)

'Zest for Life' is how lesbians describe their experience of menopause. This book suggests that the experience of menopause can be significantly altered through shifting perceptions about body image. Based on a survey of over one hundred women, Kelly's research shatters the myths promoted by the pharmaceutical companies and the medical industry. Instead of the false eternal ...(展开全部)

Zhang Yawen was born and raised in grinding poverty in the extreme climate and isolation of rural Northeast China, an experience that imbued her with a fierce desire to survive and to make something of herself. She tells us of the hardships she endured to attend school as a girl living in the wilderness, the tragic stories of her sisters, and her struggle to lift herself out of...(展开全部)