The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography...(展开全部)

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world – and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas f...(展开全部)

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world – and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas f...(展开全部)

In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes―both human and literary―that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird...(展开全部)

自序 从1946初我开始学神学后，所阅读的首批著作中就有罗玛诺·瓜尔蒂尼(Romano Guardini)的一本着作<礼仪之精神>(Vom Geist des Liturgie)。此书在1918年复活节发表，直到1957年曾多次再版，本书开创了 “祈祷的教会”(Ecclesia Oraans)系列丛书，此系列是由赫伟根（Herwegen）院长主编的。这本小著述完全可以被视为是德国“礼仪运动”的起点，因为他以决定性的方式重新发现了礼仪之美、所蕴之富藏及其超越时间性之特点，这一发现竟使礼仪成为教会以及基督徒生活的中心。 这一著作所达到的效果就是：努力 “以最本质的方式”(瓜尔蒂尼喜欢用的表达词句)来举行礼仪。就是从礼仪最深之要求及其内在之形式来了解礼仪，将礼仪理解为受圣神默感并由同一圣神而引导的祈祷，在此礼仪中基督成为我们的同代人，并进入我们的生活。 我...(展开全部)

During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same time—and an informal book club of two was born. Through their wide-ranging reading, Will and Mary Anne—and we, their fellow readers—are r...(展开全部)

During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same time—and an informal book club of two was born. Through their wide-ranging reading, Will and Mary Anne—and we, their fellow readers—are r...(展开全部)