The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts ...(展开全部)

The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts ...(展开全部)

Review An important book about a critical question. (New York Times Book Review ) Loftus is a quiet, sincere, and reliable guide to this important research and its applications. (Times Higher Education Supplement ) Product Description Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. Although psychologists have suspected for dec...(展开全部)

Review An important book about a critical question. (New York Times Book Review ) Loftus is a quiet, sincere, and reliable guide to this important research and its applications. (Times Higher Education Supplement ) Product Description Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. Although psychologists have suspected for dec...(展开全部)

A compelling challenge to conventional thought' - "New York Times". In this newly updated edition of his classic text on the "economics of abundance", Galbraith lays bare the hazards of individual and social complacency about economic inequality. It is as relevant now, with the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, as when it was first published 40 years ago. Galbraith chall...(展开全部)

"Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published of 'the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America.'"--Jack P. Greene, "History" "The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller."--David Levin, "William and Mary Quarterly" "A brave and brilliant book...that is the most significant and far-reaching con...(展开全部)

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -S...(展开全部)

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -S...(展开全部)

加里·斯奈德 Gary Snyder，20世纪美国著名诗人、散文家、翻译家、禅宗信徒、环保主义者。他是“垮掉派”诗人中至今创作成就最大的一位，曾出版诗集、散文集和访谈录等二十多本著作，多次获得重要奖项，包括美国国家图书奖、博林根诗歌奖、莱文森奖、古根海 姆基金奖及普利策诗歌奖等。他深受中国古代文化的影响，喜欢沉浸于自然，将历史与荒野纳于心中。在大自然中的生活和思考使他的作品更接近事物的本色以对抗我们时代的失衡与无知。 译者 陈登，哲学博士。出版英语方面的著作多种。谭琼琳，教授，博士生导师，英国威尔士大学英语语言文学博士，英国皇家亚洲研究会会员，英国威尔士大学荣誉研究员。斯奈德研究专家，出版研究斯奈德的英语专著一部，并发表相关论文十余篇。