Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with people who have suffered unbearable life experiences. He shows how, in an ironical twist of psychical life, the very images which are generated to defend the self can become malevolent and destructive, resulting in further trauma for the person. Why and how this happens are the q...(展开全部)

"Mathematicians" is a remarkable collection of ninety-two photographic portraits, featuring some of the most amazing mathematicians of our time. Acclaimed photographer Mariana Cook captures the exuberant and colorful personalities of these brilliant thinkers and the superb images are accompanied by brief autobiographical texts written by each mathematician. Together, the photog...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 彼得·渥雷本，1964 年出生于德国，童年即立志成为自然资源的守护者。大学时选择攻读林业经济学，毕业后二十余年，一直在林业管理局做公务员。为实现用生态平衡体系管理林区的理想，他辞去公职，在德国埃菲尔（Eifel）地区领导并管理着一片环保林区，致力于恢复这片森林的原始形态，并就森林和环保等主题发表演说，开设课程，著书立说。已出版《树的秘密生命》《森林—— 一场发现之旅》等十余部作品。 【译者简介】 本名许洁，1965 年生于上海，先后毕业于中央戏剧学院戏剧文学系、德国科隆大学戏剧电影电视学院，后获中国科学院心理所心理学硕士学位。2008 年移居德国慕尼黑。现主要从事网络文学创作和翻译工作。翻译作品有《弗朗兹系列》《在那遥远的森林里》《草原精灵小矮人》《小熊帮》《妈妈走了》《火鞋与风鞋》等。其中《弗朗兹系列》2015 年获得由德国图书信息中...(展开全部)

In this remarkable contribution to photographic criticism and psychoanalytic literature, Ulrich Baer traces the hitherto overlooked connection between the experience of trauma and the photographic image. Instead of treating trauma as a photographic "theme," Baer examines the striking parallel between those moments arrested mechanically by photography and those arrested experien...(展开全部)

'Never, never, never give in', Winston Churchill's famous quotation best sums up the life of Stephen Westaby, the world-leading cardiothoracic surgeon. This book chronicles the triumphs and failures of his surgical life, the lives saved and extended, the innovations (such as artificial hearts) he developed, and his research discoveries. Having spent his childhood in the backstr...(展开全部)

With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Blending fresh, insightful readings of li...(展开全部)

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countri...(展开全部)

Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it’s hard to say. In The Weirdness of the World, Schwitzgebel argues that the answers to these funda...(展开全部)