Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism -- not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living mas...(展开全部)

让-弗朗索瓦•何维勒（Jean-Francois Revel） 法兰西学院院士，1924年生，哲学教授、政治评论家，所著政治评论在西方世界皆引起很大反响，曾任法国新闻周刊《快报》总编辑，现居巴黎。 马修•理查德（Matthieu Richard） 佛教僧侣。生于1946年，曾为巴黎巴斯特学院分子生物博士。1972年移居印度，向佛教大师们学习，二十多年来过着佛教僧侣的生活。出家前曾写过一本鸟类迁移的著作，出家后的作品有《顿悟之旅》。至今一直从事藏文经文的翻译，现居尼泊尔谢城寺。 译者简介： 赖声川 台湾知名舞台剧导演，1954年生于美国华盛顿。美国加州伯克莱大学戏剧艺术博士。曾任国立台北艺术大学戏剧学院教授及院长。1984年参与创立剧团表演工作坊，担任艺术总监。自1984年开始剧场创作，后陆续开创台湾舞台剧市场，即兴时事电视剧市场，受到中外媒体赞誉，并...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life...? It's a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to "do what we have to do" to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed bestseller "The Monk and the Riddle", entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. The book's timeless advice - to make work pay not just in ...(展开全部)

The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats—and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza...(展开全部)

There is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather, it seems that at some point cats saw the potential value to themselves of humans. John Gray's wonderful new book is an attempt to get to grips with the philosophical and moral issues around the uniquely strange relationship between ourselves and these remarkable animals. Feline Philosophy draws on centuries...(展开全部)

The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats―and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza...(展开全部)

A surprising new take on why we believe in God—and how this belief ensured the survival of the human species. God is not merely an idea to be entertained or discarded based on the evidence. Nor is God a cultural invention, an existential Band-Aid, or an opiate of the masses. Instead, Jesse Bering argues, belief in God evolved in the human species as an "adaptive illusion." Draw...(展开全部)

A surprising new take on why we believe in God—and how this belief ensured the survival of the human species. God is not merely an idea to be entertained or discarded based on the evidence. Nor is God a cultural invention, an existential Band-Aid, or an opiate of the masses. Instead, Jesse Bering argues, belief in God evolved in the human species as an "adaptive illusion." Draw...(展开全部)

Are We Alone in the Universe? In this provocative and far-reaching book, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries -- the origin of life. Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled earth. It was warm and wet and could have supported primitive organisms. If life once existed on Mars, might it have...(展开全部)

Psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining and thoughtful follow-up to his bestselling Love's Executioner In six enthralling stories drawn from his own clinical experience, Irvin D. Yalom once again proves himself an intrepid explorer of the human psyche as he guides his patients--and himself--toward tra...(展开全部)