苏珊·科金（Suzanne Corkin，1937—2016），麻省理工学院神经科学暨大脑认知科学荣誉教授，蒙特娄神经研究院、美国心理协会，以及美国科学促进会成员。曾获得业内众多大奖，如“戴维•华莱士奖”，“史密斯学院奖”，美国国家卫生研究院杰出研究奖，以及美国心理协会的杰出研究成就奖。她的作品不仅科学严谨，更散发着人性的光辉。 作为神经心理学和神经系统科学领域领先的学者，苏珊·科金在阿兹海默症、帕金森症和失忆症上的案例研究使她在业内广为人知。而让普罗大众熟悉她的，便是其对失忆症患者H.M.长达近半个世纪的研究。苏珊·科金不仅是一名研究学者，同时也扮演着H.M.的家人、朋友和重要康复伙伴的角色。在几十年的研究过程中，她始终致力于为H.M.寻求最佳的生活条件和最受保护的舆论环境，她对H.M.作为一个人的尊重，从未因为他的健康状况受到任何减损。 在本书简...(展开全部)

譯者簡介 顧法嚴先生 （一九一七～一九九五）本名世淦，浙江紹興人，中央大學畢業，曾任農復會總務處長，精通英文、梵文、巴利文，為佛教界著名翻譯家。譯有《佛陀的啟示》、《原始佛典選譯》、《禪門三柱》、《射藝中的禪》、《密宗傳統觀音觀想修法》，均交由慧炬出版社發行。在台期間，曾擔任美國佛教會駐臺譯經院副院長，主持英譯《大寶積經》工作。一九七三年定居美國舊金山，一九八八年依妙境長老出家。

In 1953, 27-year-old Henry Gustave Molaison underwent an experimental “psychosurgical” procedure—a targeted lobotomy—in an effort to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The outcome was unexpected—when Henry awoke, he could no longer form new memories, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment. But Henry’s tragedy would prove a gift to humanity. As renowned ne...(展开全部)

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and a unique insight into a forgotten way of life.

A classic introductory book to Buddhism, What the Buddha Taught contains a selection of illustrative texts from the original Pali texts, including the Suttas and the Dhammapada. The author, himself a Buddhist monk and scholar, removes a number of common misconceptions about Buddhism, and provides a comprehensive, compact, lucid, and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings th...(展开全部)

Our imagination today is dominated by the end of the world, from sci-fi and climate fiction to actual predictions of biodiversity collapse, climate disruption, and the emergence of the Anthropocene. This obsession with the world’s precarity, The Memory of the World contends, relies on a flawed understanding of time that neglects the past and present with the goal of managing th...(展开全部)

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that th...(展开全部)

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that th...(展开全部)

[美] 彭慕兰 Kenneth Pomeranz 著名历史学家，曾任美国历史学会会长（2013—2014），“加州学派”代表人物。1980年于康奈尔大学获学士学位，1988年于耶鲁大学获博士学位，师从史景迁。现任美国芝加哥大学历史系教授。主要著作有：《腹地的构建——华北 内地的国家、社会和经济（1853—1937）》（荣获1994年费正清奖）、《大分流：欧洲、中国及现代世界经济的发展》（荣获2000年费正清奖、2001年世界历史协会年度图书奖）、《贸易打造的世界——1400年至今的社会、文化与世界经济》（与史蒂文•托皮克合著）等。 [美]史蒂文•托皮克 Steven Topik 美国加州大学尔湾分校历史学系教授，研究方向有：拉美史、世界贸易史、咖啡经济史等。主要著作包括：《巴西的政治经济学：1889—1930》《贸易与炮艇：帝国时代的美国与巴西》《全...(展开全部)