What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Or Jerry and Alvin, wealthy twin bachelors who filled up matching luxury apartments with countless pieces of fine art...(展开全部)

What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper thats ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Randy Frost and Gail Steketee were the first to study hoarding when they began their work a decade ago; they expected ...(展开全部)

The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique...(展开全部)

理查德•费曼 美国物理学家，诺贝尔物理学奖得主。生于1918年，成长于纽约的法罗克维，1942年毕业于普林斯顿大学，拿到了博士学位。二战期间，他是推动原子弹研发的重要人物。战后，费曼在康奈尔大学和加州理工学院任教。1965年，他因在量子电动力学方面的研究荣获诺贝尔物理学奖。除了是物理学家，费曼还是个作家、艺术家，擅长演奏手鼓，还能打开各类保险箱。1988年，费曼辞世。

理查德•费曼 美国物理学家，诺贝尔物理学奖得主。生于1918年，成长于纽约的法罗克维，1942年毕业于普林斯顿大学，拿到了博士学位。二战期间，他是推动原子弹研发的重要人物。战后，费曼在康奈尔大学和加州理工学院任教。1965年，他因在量子电动力学方面的研究荣获诺贝尔物理学奖。除了是物理学家，费曼还是个作家、艺术家，擅长演奏手鼓，还能打开各类保险箱。1988年，费曼辞世。

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

Mark Schultz 曾为DC漫画公司（DC Comics）和惊奇漫画公司（Marvel Comics）创作过大量作品，他的剧本和插图已经获得5项哈维奖、2项艾斯纳奖和1项英克波特奖，其中最著名的作品包括他的力作《恐龙快打》（Xenozoic Tales）系列漫画和《超人》（Superman）。 Illustrated by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon 插图画家，他们的客户既包括美国国家海洋与大气管理局，也包括DC漫画公司，共同创作的作品包括《替身上帝》（The Replacement God）和Smax，此外，《前十名》（Top 10）还获得2项艾斯纳奖。

Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.

A homage to the city of Trieste, rich with history and tinged with the melancholy of remembrance. "Morris at the peak of her form." - The Atlantic Monthly . Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as...(展开全部)