Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring int...(展开全部)

一行禅师 （Thich Nhat Hanh） 国际知名禅师、诗人、学者 1926年出生于越南，为越南临济法脉第四十二代传人。1967年，一行禅师被美国黑人民权领袖马丁·路德·金提名为当年诺贝尔和平奖候选人。1982年，在法国南部建立了“梅村”禅修道场，并经常赴世界各地弘法。 一行禅师通晓越、英、法及中文，迄今已出版佛学论述、诗集、小说、戏剧、传记等上百本著作，其中包括《正念的奇迹》、《观照的奇迹》、《心力》、《调心》、《与生命相约》、《你可以不生气》、《你可以不怕死》、《你可以，爱》、《生生基督世世佛》、《步步安乐行》。

The author, himself a Zen master, here unfolds an explanation of core Buddhist teachings such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. He makes these practices accessible to Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, showing how our very suffering can be the path to our liberation.

An original interdisciplinary study positioned at the intersection of literary theory and neuroscience. "Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certai...(展开全部)

"Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. His central argument is that literature pl...(展开全部)

'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. That gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' In this luminous essay, Robert Macfarlane reflects on the unique emotional resonance of books given and received - and how such gifts have shaped his own life.

中文译本《教育七律》，中信出版股份有限公司

Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The Edge of Knowing investigates this relationship, showing how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for...(展开全部)

The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers' attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for...(展开全部)

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Ma...(展开全部)