In her first two books, Byron Katie showed how suffering can be ended by questioning the stressful thoughts that create it, through a process of self-inquiry she calls The Work. Now, in A Thousand Names for Joy , she encourages us to discover the freedom that lives on the other side of inquiry.Stephen Mitchell—the renowned translator of the Tao Te Ching—selected provocative ex...(展开全部)

An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave he...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•坎贝尔 ● 美国著名作家，神话研究的顶级学者。他创造了一系列影响力极强的神话学巨作，跨越人类学、生物学、文学、哲学、心理学、宗教学、艺术史等领域，包括《千面英雄》《追随直觉之路》《指引生命的神话》《神话的力量》《坎贝尔生活美学》。 ● 西方流行文化的一代宗师。他是影响披头士乐队、猫王、迈克尔·杰克逊、乔治·卢卡斯、斯皮尔伯格、J.K.罗琳和乔布斯的精神导师。他的作品被好莱坞列为必读书目，从他的作品中可以幻化出各种具有戏剧性、娱乐性和心理真实性的故事，是《星球大战》《黑客帝国》《蝙蝠侠》等电影的灵感之源。 ● 极具启发性的心灵导师、演说家。访谈节目《神话的力量》一经在全国范围开播后，立即震惊了百万听众，节目同名书在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上盘踞长达一年之久，他的著作一一再版，他的演讲震撼无数心灵。

约瑟夫•坎贝尔 ● 美国著名作家，神话研究的顶级学者。他创造了一系列影响力极强的神话学巨作，跨越人类学、生物学、文学、哲学、心理学、宗教学、艺术史等领域，包括《千面英雄》《追随直觉之路》《指引生命的神话》《神话的力量》《坎贝尔生活美学》。 ● 西方流行文化的一代宗师。他是影响披头士乐队、猫王、迈克尔·杰克逊、乔治·卢卡斯、斯皮尔伯格、J.K.罗琳和乔布斯的精神导师。他的作品被好莱坞列为必读书目，从他的作品中可以幻化出各种具有戏剧性、娱乐性和心理真实性的故事，是《星球大战》《黑客帝国》《蝙蝠侠》等电影的灵感之源。 ● 极具启发性的心灵导师、演说家。访谈节目《神话的力量》一经在全国范围开播后，立即震惊了百万听众，节目同名书在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上盘踞长达一年之久，他的著作一一再版，他的演讲震撼无数心灵。

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius ... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

Stieg Larsson's #1 bestselling mystery featuring Lisbeth Salander is now a major motion picture directed by David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, from Columbia Pictures/Sony. In theaters December 2011. The first volume in the Millennium Trilogy, and an international publishing sensation, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love ...(展开全部)

A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"--the abil...(展开全部)

Once again Vivian Paley takes us into the inquiring minds and dramatic worlds of young children learning in the kindergarten classroom. As she enters her final year of teaching, Paley tells in this book a story of farewell and a story of self-discovery - through the thoughts and blossoming spirit of Reeny, a little girl with a fondness for the color brown and an astonishing sen...(展开全部)

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review"). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neu...(展开全部)

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism...(展开全部)