In the years after Wrold War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen Herrigel's "Zen in the Art of Archery" and the Ryoanji dry-landscape rock garden. Yamada shows how both became facile conduits for e...(展开全部)

麦家，现居成都。出版有长篇小说，《解密》《暗算》，小说集《紫密黑密》《地下的天空》《让蒙面人说话》等多部。其笔下人物均系一群智力超凡的天才特工，其文风智性灵异，偏执不羁，是中国“新智力小说”和“特情小说”的开创者。根据其同名小说改编的电视剧《暗算》深受观众喜爱。

麦家，现居成都。出版有长篇小说，《解密》《暗算》，小说集《紫密黑密》《地下的天空》《让蒙面人说话》等多部。其笔下人物均系一群智力超凡的天才特工，其文风智性灵异，偏执不羁，是中国“新智力小说”和“特情小说”的开创者。根据其同名小说改编的电视剧《暗算》深受观众喜爱。

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and econo...(展开全部)

"The Mitrokhin Archive" tells for the first time in full the startling story of Soviet attempts to infiltrate the West. Working from Vasili Mitrokhin's archive and his own unrivalled expertise in the history of intelligence, Christopher Andrew has created an extraordinary picture of a USSR committed to covert activity at home and abroad to maintain Communism. From technological...(展开全部)

"Numbers in the Dark" is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside th...(展开全部)