Kanchil, the beloved trickster mouse-deer of Indonesian folklore, falls into a pit. With only a banana leaf for company, he invents a prophecy to trick some unlikely animals into helping him out-if the world doesn't end first And if anyone dares sneeze, the consequences will be dire. This sequel to the popular Mangoes and Bananas is illustrated in the Patachitra tradition of O...(展开全部)

書影係代用A Leaf in the Storm（漢譯名《风声鹤唳》），1941年初版精装毛边本封面書影

書影係代用A Leaf in the Storm（漢譯名《风声鹤唳》），1941年初版精装毛边本封面書影

A brightly glowing leaf effects change in this wordless graphic novel. How much power does a single man, let alone a single leaf, have in the industrial world? In this wordless, all-ages graphic novel, our protagonist discovers a leaf that radiates a vibrant light. He returns to a detailed metropolis ― depicted in somber grays and blues ― and searches for answers. During his qu...(展开全部)

Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on this course. In denial of our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of hu...(展开全部)

Jean-Pierre Dupuy is Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Philosophy, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and Professor of French and, by courtesy, of Political Science, Stanford University. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology, of the Conseil Général des Mines, the French High Magistracy that oversees and regulates industry, energy, and the environment, and Chair of...(展开全部)

Translation of La violence et le sacré.

作者：佶亞伍丁‧薩爾達爾（Ziauddin Sardar） 生於巴基斯坦，在大倫敦的哈克尼自治市長大。身兼作家、廣播人、文化評論家，是首屈一指的穆斯林知識分子。撰有五十多本伊斯蘭和當代文化的著作，被《遠見》雜誌（Prospect）列為英國百大智者之一。目前擔任美國東西大學後常態政策與未來研究中心主任、《穆斯林評論》季刊共同總編輯、《未來學》月刊顧問、倫敦穆斯林研究所董事長。 譯者：高平唐 報社資深編譯，電影公司影片和公關公司新聞摘要特約翻譯，譯有《緬甸：追求自由民主的反抗者》、《翁山蘇姬》、《希拉蕊回憶錄》、《歐尼斯光譜保健法讓你的基因變得更好》、《大熊市》、《巴菲特投資手冊》。

作者：佶亞伍丁‧薩爾達爾（Ziauddin Sardar） 生於巴基斯坦，在大倫敦的哈克尼自治市長大。身兼作家、廣播人、文化評論家，是首屈一指的穆斯林知識分子。撰有五十多本伊斯蘭和當代文化的著作，被《遠見》雜誌（Prospect）列為英國百大智者之一。目前擔任美國東西大學後常態政策與未來研究中心主任、《穆斯林評論》季刊共同總編輯、《未來學》月刊顧問、倫敦穆斯林研究所董事長。 譯者：高平唐 報社資深編譯，電影公司影片和公關公司新聞摘要特約翻譯，譯有《緬甸：追求自由民主的反抗者》、《翁山蘇姬》、《希拉蕊回憶錄》、《歐尼斯光譜保健法讓你的基因變得更好》、《大熊市》、《巴菲特投資手冊》。

"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'