An exploration of the nature of our mind, from the inside out, by a leading neurobiologist. Over the last twenty years, there has been growing attention in the Western world to mindfulness—paying attention to life in the present moment. Here, Daniel J. Siegel investigates the phenomenon of mindfulness as it impacts our daily lives, offering readers insight into personal r...(展开全部)

An exploration of the nature of our mind, from the inside out, by a leading neurobiologist. Over the last twenty years, there has been growing attention in the Western world to mindfulness—paying attention to life in the present moment. Here, Daniel J. Siegel investigates the phenomenon of mindfulness as it impacts our daily lives, offering readers insight into personal r...(展开全部)

Well-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism. It also extends far beyond philosophy: recent studies into the science and psychology of well-being have propelled the topic to centre stage, and governments spend millions on promoting it. We are encouraged to adopt modes of thinking and behaviour that sup...(展开全部)

罗彼得·C.惠布罗（Peter C. Whybrow） 出生于英格兰，英国著名精神科医生，皇家精神病学院的创始成员和研究员，英国医学研究委员会科学工作者。曾任教于达特茅斯医学院和宾夕法尼亚大学，目前担任加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学与人类行为研究院主任，David Geffen医学院精神病及行为科学系主任，美国精神病协会会员，美国前沿科学协会会员，主要研究兴趣在于精神病学和神经科学对人类行为的影响。著有畅销书《美国狂热》（American Mania: When More Is Not Enough），该书获得2006年美国精神分析发展协会授予的Gradiva奖。

罗彼得·C.惠布罗（Peter C. Whybrow） 出生于英格兰，英国著名精神科医生，皇家精神病学院的创始成员和研究员，英国医学研究委员会科学工作者。曾任教于达特茅斯医学院和宾夕法尼亚大学，目前担任加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学与人类行为研究院主任，David Geffen医学院精神病及行为科学系主任，美国精神病协会会员，美国前沿科学协会会员，主要研究兴趣在于精神病学和神经科学对人类行为的影响。著有畅销书《美国狂热》（American Mania: When More Is Not Enough），该书获得2006年美国精神分析发展协会授予的Gradiva奖。

Dr. Jan English Lueck is a Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and an active Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. In 2004, she was selected Outstanding Professor at San Jose State University. Dr. English Lueck has a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied social change and community life among alternative h...(展开全部)

Dr. Jan English Lueck is a Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and an active Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. In 2004, she was selected Outstanding Professor at San Jose State University. Dr. English Lueck has a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied social change and community life among alternative h...(展开全部)

作者简介： 戴维·皮林（David Pilling） 英国《金融时报》的获奖记者与编辑，已为其工作25年之久。现任《金融时报》非洲版块编辑，曾任英国《金融时报》亚洲版块编辑，负责全亚洲地区的新闻报道。其前作《日本：生存的艺术》（Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival）获得广泛好评。现居伦敦，经常到访非洲各国。

A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, sets the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is economists who set the agenda for how much we can spend on our schools, highways, and defense; who decide how much unemployment is ...(展开全部)

Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. "The Tain of the Mirror" (tain names the tinfoil, or lusterless back of the mirror) explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible. Gasche does wha...(展开全部)