"A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived." --don Juan In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of k...(展开全部)

In 1961, a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship with Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he...(展开全部)

From School Library Journal Grade 9 & Up--The volatile world of male adolescence provides the backdrop for John Knowles' engrossing tale of love， hate， war， and peace. Sharing a room at Devon， an exclusive New England prep school， in the summer prior to World War II， Gene and Phineas form a complex bond of friendship that draws out both the best and worst characteristics of ea...(展开全部)

From School Library Journal Grade 9 & Up--The volatile world of male adolescence provides the backdrop for John Knowles' engrossing tale of love， hate， war， and peace. Sharing a room at Devon， an exclusive New England prep school， in the summer prior to World War II， Gene and Phineas form a complex bond of friendship that draws out both the best and worst characteristics of ea...(展开全部)

Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it. Through a completely new way to understand and use the business model as the primary tool for confronting reality—a breakthrough that will become the management inn...(展开全部)

How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting dialogue between Buddhism and Euro-American philosophy is the first of its kind in fil...(展开全部)

葛瑞．雷納Gary R. Renard 生於美國麻州，原是職業吉他手。1987年受到感召，開始心靈的追尋。1990年遷至緬因州，經歷了一連串不可思議的覺醒過程。他在兩位上師的指導下，研讀《奇蹟課程》，並受上師之託，詳細紀錄十年間所獲得的啟示，而成《告別娑婆》一書。該書甫問世，旋即轟動新時代群族、宗教靈修團體。目前巡迴美國各州，宣揚奇蹟理念，深受奇蹟學員愛戴。

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the ...(展开全部)

罗杰彭罗斯,著名广义相对论学家、宇宙学家斯蒂芬霍金的合作人。 1931年 罗杰·彭罗斯出生于英国埃塞克斯州的一个医生家庭。他的爸爸是著名的人类遗传学家莱昂内尔·彭罗斯，罗杰·彭罗斯先进入伦敦大学的附属中学，而后进入伦敦大学学院。 他在1957年 被授予剑桥大学博士学位。与他爸爸一起合作，设计出常人难以做出的几何图形。他的设计被荷兰艺术家艾斯丘（1898－1972）（因创立光学幻影而闻名）收入石版画中。 1964年 在美国奥斯丁的德克萨斯大学工作时，罗杰·彭罗斯开始提出一种观点，他在牛津大学工作时，继续发展了这一观点——即磁扭线理论的新的宇宙理论。他用复数公然反对物理学的一些主要定理。 1965年，他的以著名论文《引力坍塌和时空奇点》为代表的一系列论文，和著名数学物理学家斯蒂芬.霍金的工作一起创立了现代宇宙论的数学结构理论。 1966年 任伦敦大学Bi...(展开全部)