作者简介 盖尔·琼斯（Gail Jones,1955—— ）:澳大利亚当代著名作家，到目前为止，出版两部短篇小说集和七部长篇小说。长篇小说《黑镜子》（Black Mirror）、《六十盏灯》(Sixty Lights)、《梦语》(Dream of Speaking)等入围或者获得多项澳大利亚文学奖项。《抱歉》(Sorry),《五次钟声》(Five Bells)亦在西方文坛引起广泛关注。最新力作《诺亚·格拉斯之死》（The Death of Noah Glass）入围2019年迈尔斯·富兰克林文学奖，获2019年澳大利亚总理文学奖。盖尔•琼斯目前就职于西悉尼大学社会与写作研究中心。 译者简介 李尧（1946—— ）：资深翻译家，悉尼大学荣誉文学博士、西悉尼大学荣誉文学博士、北京外国语大学澳大利亚研究中心客座教授、西悉尼大学人文与交流艺术学院兼职教授、中...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever, lessons on harnessing the power of money to live a happier life Most of us don’t know how to spend money. We chase things that impress others but leave us cold. Or we save endlessly, afraid to spend on what would actually make life better. We confuse admiration with envy, comfort with excess, and status wi...(展开全部)

本书作者是《金钱心理学》和《一如既往》的畅销书作者，本书将教你如何驾驭金钱的力量，过上更幸福的生活。 我们大多数人都不懂得如何花钱。我们追逐那些令他人倾心却又漠然置之的东西。或者，我们无休止地攒钱，却不敢花钱购买那些真正能改善生活的东西。我们混淆了欣赏与嫉妒、安逸与豪奢、功利与地位。 《花钱的艺术》并非提供预算、技巧或一刀切的解决方案。它让你理解你与金钱的关系如何影响你的决策，以及如何重塑这种关系，让金钱为你服务。 摩根·豪塞尔的研究已经帮助数百万人重新思考他们的赚钱、储蓄和投资方式。现在，他将注意力转向了等式的另一边：如何花钱。他以深刻的洞察力和温暖的笔触，阐述了为什么投资有价值的回报是内心的平静，为什么预期比收入更重要，以及为什么理财与电子表格的关系不如自我认知重要。 本书并非关于致富，而是关于如何大限度地利用你已有的财富，并学会去追求值得追求的...(展开全部)

本书作者是《金钱心理学》和《一如既往》的畅销书作者，本书将教你如何驾驭金钱的力量，过上更幸福的生活。 我们大多数人都不懂得如何花钱。我们追逐那些令他人倾心却又漠然置之的东西。或者，我们无休止地攒钱，却不敢花钱购买那些真正能改善生活的东西。我们混淆了欣赏与嫉妒、安逸与豪奢、功利与地位。 《花钱的艺术》并非提供预算、技巧或一刀切的解决方案。它让你理解你与金钱的关系如何影响你的决策，以及如何重塑这种关系，让金钱为你服务。 摩根·豪塞尔的研究已经帮助数百万人重新思考他们的赚钱、储蓄和投资方式。现在，他将注意力转向了等式的另一边：如何花钱。他以深刻的洞察力和温暖的笔触，阐述了为什么投资有价值的回报是内心的平静，为什么预期比收入更重要，以及为什么理财与电子表格的关系不如自我认知重要。 本书并非关于致富，而是关于如何大限度地利用你已有的财富，并学会去追求值得追求的...(展开全部)

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)

The Clay Sanskrit Library has recently set out to change the scene by making available well-translated dual-language (English and Sanskrit) editions of popular Sanskritic texts for the public. The Buddhist monk Ashva*ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called...(展开全部)

"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. ...(展开全部)

Harvard Professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson takes readers through time--tracing the processes that create new species, the five cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution over the past 600 million years, and how humans are destroying diversity at a projected rate of 20 percent over the next 30 years. "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence somet...(展开全部)

The Machinery of Life is a journey into the sub-microscopic world of molecular machines. Readers are introduced to the types of molecules built by cells, including proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and polysaccharides; then, in a series of full-color "watercolor" illustrations, which show a portion of a living cell magnified by 1,000,000 times, the reader is guided through the i...(展开全部)

Life is a great gift and as we reach years of discretion we most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.