Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, "Staring at the Sun" is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an "awakening experie...(展开全部)

Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an "awakening experie...(展开全部)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we learn cannot fail to be mov...(展开全部)

Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsa...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

Over the past quarter century Irvin Yalom has established himself as the world's leading group psychotherapist. In STARING AT THE SUN, he explores how the knowledge of our own mortality affects the unconscious mind of every human being. Tackling the effect of mankind's fear of death - both conscious and unconscious - on life and how we might live it, Yalom explains how we find ...(展开全部)

西蒙·赫弗(Simon Heffer)，1960年生，曾在剑桥大学主修英语，后获剑桥大学历史学博士学位，现任英国白金汉大学历史学教授。赫弗在伦敦新闻界服役近35年，曾任《每日电讯报》（The Daily Telegraph）和《旁观者》（The Spectator）副总编辑，现为《每日电讯报》和《星期日电讯报》（The Sunday Telegraph）撰稿人。本书为赫弗英国现代史系列作品的第三部，赫弗的其他作品还包括《道德亡命徒：托马斯·卡莱尔的一生》（Moral Desperado : A Life of Thomas Carlyle）《像罗马人那样：伊诺克·鲍威尔的一生》（Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell）《权力和地位：国王爱德华七世的政治重要性》（Power and Place: The Pol...(展开全部)

西蒙·赫弗(Simon Heffer)，1960年生，曾在剑桥大学主修英语，后获剑桥大学历史学博士学位，现任英国白金汉大学历史学教授。赫弗在伦敦新闻界服役近35年，曾任《每日电讯报》（The Daily Telegraph）和《旁观者》（The Spectator）副总编辑，现为《每日电讯报》和《星期日电讯报》（The Sunday Telegraph）撰稿人。本书为赫弗英国现代史系列作品的第三部，赫弗的其他作品还包括《道德亡命徒：托马斯·卡莱尔的一生》（Moral Desperado : A Life of Thomas Carlyle）《像罗马人那样：伊诺克·鲍威尔的一生》（Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell）《权力和地位：国王爱德华七世的政治重要性》（Power and Place: The Pol...(展开全部)

From the author of the Finlandia Award-winning novel Troll: A Love Story, The Core of the Sun further cements Johanna Sinisalo’s reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country’s unique take on it, dubbed “Finnish weird.” Set in an alternative historical present, in a “eusistocracy”—an extreme welfare state—that holds public health and social stability...(展开全部)