Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivati...(展开全部)

Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivati...(展开全部)

When Raymond Carver died at age fifty, readers lost a distinctive voice in its prime. Carver was, the Times of London said, "the Chekhov of middle America." His influence on a generation of writers and on the short story itself has been widely noted. Not so generally known are how Carver became a writer, how he suffered to achieve his art, and how his troubled and remarkable ...(展开全部)

《雷蒙德·卡佛：一位作家的一生》卡萝尔·斯克莱尼卡 这部传记耗时10年，作者做了大量的研究工作，写得一丝不苟，怀着同情，熟练地整合了传主的作品和动荡的甚或——饱受酗酒、金融波动和家庭失和之苦。斯克莱尼卡敏锐地剖析了卡佛根他的编辑戈登·利什之间充满不愉快的关系，利什在卡佛的小说创作中起了非同寻常的作用。

In a lush, green forest, a sloth sleeps. Turn the pages of his story--told in a stunning pop-up display--to witness the tragic process of deforestation and watch as a single seed brings new life. Inventive design and bold art illustrate this important lesson about the environment and the rebirth of what was lost.

Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? We have something deep and consistent within us that determines the choices we make and the situations we bring about. But why should members of the same species differ so markedly in their natures? What is the best personality to have; a bold one or a shy...(展开全部)

Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? We have something deep and consistent within us that determines the choices we make and the situations we bring about. But why should members of the same species differ so markedly in their natures? What is the best personality to have; a bold one or a shy...(展开全部)

Psychologist Seligman ( Learned Optimism ) here examines common psychological disorders according to their biological and societal, or learned, components. Most enlightening are his analyses of the effectiveness of relaxation, meditation, psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies in the treatment of anxiety, which, along with depression and anger, he claims, can largely be control...(展开全部)

Psychologist Seligman ( Learned Optimism ) here examines common psychological disorders according to their biological and societal, or learned, components. Most enlightening are his analyses of the effectiveness of relaxation, meditation, psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies in the treatment of anxiety, which, along with depression and anger, he claims, can largely be control...(展开全部)

克里希那穆提（1895-1986），印度著名哲学家，当代最受推崇的心灵导师，已出版七十余本著作，全部由演讲和对话录集结而成，目前已被译成47国语言文字，在全世界产生了广泛而深远的影响。 克里希那穆提倡导，实现世界和平的唯一途径是人类心灵的转变，为此，我们每个人都应当自省其身，除此之外没有任何捷径可走，也没有任何大师或权威可以提供帮助。佛学家推崇克氏为中观导师，印度教吠檀多学者则认为他是个圆满的觉者。