丽兹•格林（Liz Greene），英国占星师，毕生贡献于心理占星学，与备受尊崇的美国占星师霍华德•萨司波塔斯（Howard Sasportas）共同创办伦敦心理占星学中心（The Centre for Psychological Astrology），并拥有一家出版专业占星书的CPA出版公司。 格林是二十世纪最受欢迎的占星师，著作等身。1976年，本书的出版使她迅速成名，书中以荣格心理学的意象，重新诠释土星这颗业力之星，揭露它不断驱使我们成熟成长的真义，直到今天仍脍炙人口。

Saturn symbolizes a psychic process as well as a quality or kind of experience. He is not merely a representative of pain, restriction and discipline; he is also a symbol of the psychic process, natural to all human beings, by which an individual may utilize the experience of pain, restriction, and discipline, as a means for greater consciousness and fulfillment. With this book...(展开全部)

In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukacs to identify and denounce the transformation of historical processes into ahistorical entities, human actions into things that seemed part of an immutable "second nature." For a variety of reasons, both theoretical and p...(展开全部)

In Symbiotic Planet Lynn Margulis shows that symbiosis, which simply means members of different species living in physical contact with one another, is crucial to the origins of evolutionary novelty. Ranging from bacteria to the living Earth itself, Margulis explains the symbiotic origins of many of evolution’s most important innovations. Along the way, Margulis describes her i...(展开全部)

In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. We now know much more about the problems our ancestors faced, the solutions they found, and the trade-offs they made. The drama of their experiences led to the humans we are t...(展开全部)

白一平（W. H. Baxter），美国密歇根大学教授，主要研究领域为历史语言学，尤其是语言学中数学方法的应用等。沙加尔(L. Sagart)，法国东亚语言研究所教授，上古汉语、汉语方言和南岛语系的专家，第一个提出汉藏语系和南岛语系同源的假设。 两位作者都是多年来从事汉语音韵史研究的汉学家。

Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The re...(展开全部)

William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Sha...(展开全部)

Rarely has anyone photographed reality in such an unprettified way as Boris Mikhailov. He captures the unadorned and the natural; in pictures devoid of aesthetic exhaltation, he concentrates on people and their living conditions. On his journeys through Russia, Germany, and his Ukrainian homeland, Mikhailov has equally observed the poor, the well-to-do, the outcasts, and the ho...(展开全部)