From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, these bronze sculptures—including Shiva, referred to in a saintly vision as “the thief who stole my heart”—were adorned with jewels and flowe...(展开全部)

Amazon.com Review Cult filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and the visionary French artist Moebius have teamed up again, this time to bring us a comics about the coming of the new Messiah. University professor Mangel (drawn with a Jodorowsky likeness), a restless man haunted by inner demons, becomes involved in a plot by a group of religious fanatics to bring about the birth of a ne...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

一行禅师 在汉传佛教中传统中，出家人都以“释”为姓，“一行”是他的法号，因此人们直接称呼他为“一行禅师”。一行禅师毕生宣扬非暴力的和平理念与正念生活之道。1967年，被美国黑人民权运动领袖马丁･路德･金提名为当年诺贝尔和平奖候选人。1982年，在法国南部建立了“梅村”禅修中心，并经常赴世界各地弘法。2001年，获美国哈佛大学医学院身心研究所颁赠的首个“身心灵贡献奖”。代表作有《正念的奇迹》《你可以不生气》《活得安详》《一心走路》等。其著作被翻译成30多个国家的语言文字，在欧美畅销书排行榜中曾两度进入前10名，长期畅销不衰。

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into ...(展开全部)

In another feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living d...(展开全部)

A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable. The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most peo...(展开全部)