From Publishers Weekly Time is our most valuable possession: we are obsessed with schedules and multitasking to save time, say the authors of this insightful study of the importance of time in our lives. Yet people spend time less wisely than money. Zimbardo (The Lucifer Effect), professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford, and Boyd, research director for Yahoo!, draw on their...(展开全部)

In his landmark book, The Time Paradox , internationally known psychologist Philip Zimbardo showed that we can transform the way we think about our past, present, and future to attain greater success in work and in life. Now, in The Time Cure , Zimbardo has teamed with clinicians Richard and Rosemary Sword to reveal a groundbreaking approach that helps those living with post-...(展开全部)

Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working ...(展开全部)

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马里奥•巴尔加斯•略萨Mario Vargas Llosa 著名作家，世界小说大师，被誉为“结构现实主义大师”，囊获全球重要文学大奖，包括诺贝尔文学奖：1985年获海明威文学奖，1986年获西班牙阿里图里亚斯王子文学奖，1988年获美洲金质奖章，1994年获西班牙文学的*高荣誉——塞万提斯文学奖，1999年获以色列耶路撒冷文学奖，2000年获梅嫩德斯•佩拉约国际奖，1976年被推选为国际笔会主席，2010年获诺贝尔文学奖。

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa is ‘a work of undeniable power and skill’ (Sunday Telegraph) set in a military academy in Lima, focusing on a group of cadets whose pranks set of a cycle of betrayal, murder and revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy. The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Just in time for the new millennium comes this enormous, amply illustrated compilation of 23 essays on aspects of time from experts in various disciplines, among them history and historiography, music, geology, literary criticism, anthropology, religion and the history of engineering. The venerated art historian E.H. Gombrich contributes a compact "Histor...(展开全部)

克里斯滕•利平科特，格林威治皇家天文台台长，著有《天文学》等书。 翁贝托•艾柯，意大利小说家、哲学家、符号学家、美学家，博洛尼亚大学教授，著有《玫瑰的名字》《美的历史》等书。 贡布里希爵士，著名艺术史学者，著有《艺术的故事》等书。 其他作者有约翰•诺思教授（格罗宁根大学）、西尔克•阿克曼博士（大英博物馆）、安东尼•埃维尼教授（科尔盖特大学）、戴维•金教授（歌德大学科学史研究所）、迈克尔•洛伊教授（剑桥大学克莱尔学院）、乔伊•亨德利教授（牛津布鲁克斯大学）、约翰•麦克唐纳博士（努纳武特研究中心）、埃利•德克尔博士（乌特勒支大学）、乔纳森•贝茨（格林威治皇家天文台）、伊万•卡斯克尔博士（哈佛大学福格艺术博物馆）、洛恩•坎贝尔博士（英国国家美术馆）、约翰•豪斯教授（伦敦大学考陶尔德艺术学院）、马西娅•波因顿教授（曼彻斯特大学）、唐•埃兹教授（埃塞克斯大学）...(展开全部)

A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending. In 1936, Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will...(展开全部)

In 1936, Shostakovitch, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, executed on the spot), Shostakovitch reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, his childre...(展开全部)