The first book to explore, in depth, the complete range of paranormal phenomena reported in Sussex. Published in a handy A-Z format, you will find accounts of well-known hauntings, as well as many pre

The first book to explore, in depth, the complete range of paranormal phenomena reported in Sussex. Published in a handy A-Z format, you will find accounts of well-known hauntings, as well as many pre

A New York City therapist examines the paradoxical relationship between domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust home. One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire...(展开全部)

乔治·O·阿贝尔曾是美国洛杉矶加利福尼亚大学的天文学教授。他出生于洛杉矶地区并在那里上中学，在美国空军短期工作后进入加州理工学院，在那里得到学士、硕士位，最后在1957年获得博士学位。随后，他一直在加州大学洛杉矶分校任职，并在休假期间曾经作为慕尼黑物理和天体物理学马克斯·普朗克研究所的特遨学者和爱丁堡皇家天文台的特邀教授。他的研究对象是密集星系团、宇宙宏观结构以及和宇宙学有关的其他问题。他在国内和国际的科学组织以及天文普及方面都很活跃。他除有许多研究论文和一般文章外，还写过几部被广泛选用的天文学教科书，其中包括《宇宙的探索》。1981年10月7日，乔治·阿贝尔因病逝世。

作者簡介 2016年諾貝爾獎提名人 娜迪雅‧穆拉德 Nadia Murad 伊拉克亞茲迪人，歷經伊斯蘭國（ISIS）對亞茲迪族的種族滅絕及俘虜，成功脫逃後移居德國，現為人權運動者。獲首任聯合國人口販賣倖存者尊嚴親善大使（Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking）、瓦茨拉夫哈維爾人權獎（Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize）以及沙卡洛夫獎（Sakharov Prize）。目前和亞茲迪族權益組織「亞茲達」（Yazda）合作，戮力讓伊斯蘭國為其種族滅絕和違反人性的罪行，接受國際刑事法庭審判。她亦創辦「娜迪雅倡議」（Nadia’s Initiative），旨在協助種族滅絕及人口販賣的生還者治癒身心及重建社群。 推薦序者簡介 艾瑪‧庫隆尼...(展开全部)

In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of ISIS tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her eleven brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia was in high school and had dreams of becoming a history teacher and openin...(展开全部)

The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist...(展开全部)

Generally open-minded yet critical, this survey spanning the gamut of paranormal phenomena and unexplained mysteries will rattle enthusiasts and skeptics alike. White, who is the former science editor of British GQ and former director of scientific studies at d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, dismisses near-death experiences as the dying brain's compensatory fantasies and interpr...(展开全部)