MacArthur genius and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justi...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·弗兰克（Joseph Frank，1918—2013） 普林斯顿大学比较文学荣誉教授，斯坦福大学比较文学和斯拉夫语语言文学荣誉教授。代表作五卷本《陀思妥耶夫斯基》（1976—2002）曾获美国全国图书评论俱乐部奖（传记类），两次（美国大学优秀学生联谊会的）克里斯蒂安·高 斯奖，两次（现代语言协会的）詹姆斯·拉塞尔·洛厄尔奖，《洛杉矶时报》图书奖以及另外一些荣誉。另著有《现代小说的空间形式》（1991）、《宗教与理性之间：俄国文学与文化随笔》（2010）、《回应现代性：文化政治随笔》（2012）等。

Taking two early Tibetan texts as his starting point, Jacob Dalton explores the ways in which violence has been integral to the development of Tibetan Buddhism. Paying particular attention to the so-called age of fragmentation, Tibet's dark age that spanned from 842 to 986 C.E., he draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the famous "library cave" near Dunhuang, ...(展开全部)

We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family. Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for each other is endless and...(展开全部)

When I stopped wanting things for the wrong reasons, they became possible. For almost 30 years as label boss, producer, and talent conductor at XL Recordings, Richard Russell has discovered, shaped and nurtured the artists who have rewritten the musical dictionary of the 21st century, artists like The Prodigy, The White Stripes, Adele, M.I.A., Dizzee Rascal and Giggs. Growing u...(展开全部)

'Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time.' --The Christian Century 'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice

'Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time.' --The Christian Century 'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice

Distributed for Yuksabipyungsa Press Bruce Cumings maintains in his classic account that the origin of the Korean War must be sought in the five-year period preceding the war, when Korea was dominated by widespread demands for political, economic, and social change. Making extensive use of Korean-language materials from North and South, and of classified documents, intelligence...(展开全部)

弗列德利希‧邁涅克(von Friedrich Meinecke, 1862-1954)是以「理念史」研究而聞名當世的德國史家。他的三本大作：《世界公民主義與民族國家》(1908)、《近代國家利益至上的理念》(1924)和《歷史主義的形成》(1936)，至今仍是值得一讀的作品。他的研究主題圍繞在近代的民族(精神)和國家(權力)的相互關係上。1946年，84歲的邁涅克又出版《德意志的災殃：觀察與回憶》，深刻地檢討德國為何走入納粹的歧途。他的研究方法和觀點或許引起爭議，但是他在學術上的成就和自我檢討方面卻是值得敬佩的。

透過如史詩般的文字，徹底且完整的認識蓮花生大士的印度佛母──曼達拉娃，她不平凡的生世流轉、她對佛法的堅毅信心、對蓮師證悟事業的幫助，以及身為一位女性修行者，如何挑戰不平等的對待及宿命，突破重重難關，在修行之道上圓滿成就。 曼達拉娃是位真正卓越超凡的女性，她是蓮花生大士的虔誠弟子。她生於皇族，自幼便一心只想修行。然而父親沙霍國王卻執意迫使其出嫁，因此她逃離皇宮而進入尼院，並於該處遇見蓮師且成為其在印度的佛母。國王十分震怒，他將曼達拉娃丟入滿是荊棘的地洞，並極力想要活活燒死蓮師卻未能成功，反而因此創造了位於北印度的措貝瑪之湖，此處至今仍是朝聖之地。 在伊喜．措嘉為了未來世代利益而隱藏的伏藏《曼達拉娃的生世與解脫》中，有著上述和許多其他的故事，皆描繪出曼達拉娃於諸多生世當中所面臨的許多磨難，而她於這些生世都在追求證悟。對於鼓勵當代男女尋找方法，以掙脫那些強...(展开全部)