It is now forty years after Mao Zedong’s death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. During this time, the collective memory of these events has been sanitized, reduced to a much-diluted version of what truly took place. Historical and sociological approaches cannot fully address the moral failure th...(展开全部)

It is now forty years after Mao Zedong’s death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. During this time, the collective memory of these events has been sanitized, reduced to a much-diluted version of what truly took place. Historical and sociological approaches cannot fully address the moral failure th...(展开全部)

Stag's Leap is a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimste telling——which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending——Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing i...(展开全部)

Quantum mechanics appears to describe a universal order that includes us in a very special way. In fact, our minds may enter into nature in a way we had not imagined possible. The thought that atoms may not exist without observers of atoms is, to me, a very exciting thought. Could this fact concerning atoms also apply in other realms of science? Perhaps much of what is taken to...(展开全部)

This book entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the earlyGreeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm. This humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound...(展开全部)

Claiming for Herodotus, the "father of history", a position in the canon of political thought, this work finds modern validity in his fundamental perceptions about the importance of stories to the coherence of political communities.

佩玛•丘卓(Pema Chödrön)，西藏金刚乘比丘尼，创巴仁波切最杰出的大弟子之一，北美第一座藏密修道院甘波修道院院长，是现代人身心修持的精神导师。她出家前曾结婚生子，后因先生有外遇而离异。由于经历过痛苦的洗礼，她对佛法的体悟和诠释非常生活化，贴近现代人的内心需求和渴望。自1974年持戒以来，常常在欧洲、澳洲、北美演讲，主持工作室。 著有《当生命陷落时》、《转逆境为喜悦》、《与无常共处》、《生命不再等待》等颇有影响力的著作。

This book takes an inside look at the development of four large Chinese domestic computer enterprises from their inception to their establishment as multi-billion dollar businesses. It shows how and why indigenous Chinese high-tech firms gained technology capabilities and modern marketing know-how, and how they were able to compete directly with Western multinationals.