New from the bestselling author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying--365 thought-provoking meditations on life, death, doubt, mindfulness, compassion, wisdom, work, and more!

One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah is a rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God: its twelfth-and thirteenth-century beginnings in southern France and Spain are probed in Orig...(展开全部)

One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah is a rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God: its twelfth-and thirteenth-century beginnings in southern France and Spain are probed in Orig...(展开全部)

Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian. A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from co...(展开全部)

施罗默·桑德 Shlomo Sand ，以色列特拉维夫大学历史学教授，曾任教于法国社会科学高等研究院。1946年出生于奥地利林茨，是大屠杀中幸存下来的波兰裔犹太人，幼年时生活在难民收容所，1948年举家迁往雅法。1982年获得法国社会科学高等研究院博士学 位，致力于民族 与民族主义、法国知识分子历史、电影史等研究领域。其著作《虚构的犹太民族》《虚构的以色列地》《我为何放弃做犹太人》被称为“虚构三部曲”，在以色列和西方学界引起轰动与争议。 另著有《知识分子、真相和权力：从德雷福斯事件到海湾战争》（Intellectuals, Truth and Power: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War）、《词语和土地：以色列知识分子和民族主义神话》（The Words and the Land: Israeli In...(展开全部)

施罗默·桑德 Shlomo Sand ，以色列特拉维夫大学历史学教授，曾任教于法国社会科学高等研究院。1946年出生于奥地利林茨，是大屠杀中幸存下来的波兰裔犹太人，幼年时生活在难民收容所，1948年举家迁往雅法。1982年获得法国社会科学高等研究院博士学 位，致力于民族 与民族主义、法国知识分子历史、电影史等研究领域。其著作《虚构的犹太民族》《虚构的以色列地》《我为何放弃做犹太人》被称为“虚构三部曲”，在以色列和西方学界引起轰动与争议。 另著有《知识分子、真相和权力：从德雷福斯事件到海湾战争》（Intellectuals, Truth and Power: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War）、《词语和土地：以色列知识分子和民族主义神话》（The Words and the Land: Israeli In...(展开全部)

Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian. A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from co...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.