亨利·尼科尔斯（Henry Nicholls），专门从事自然科学写作的记者与作家，关心演化、生态、环保等议题。凭着深入浅出、轻松诙谐的文笔，以及在科学、历史与人文之间自在穿梭的功力，在世界知名报刊如《自然》《新科学家》《卫报》《独立报》上已发表上百篇文章。他的上一本书《寂寞的乔治》讲述的是加拉巴戈群岛上的一只陆龟，在2006年获选为英国《卫报》的一流好书奖，并入围英国皇家学会的综合图书奖。

Nicholls is surely set to become an author of many more fascinating science books. In many ways, this book is what good science writing is all about—explanation through a ripping narrative. (The independent [London] ) A fascinating story of an extraordinary animal. (Desmond Morris, famed zoologist and author of The Naked Ape ) A brilliant storyteller and narrative stylist in th...(展开全部)

From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949 revolution to the present has been filled with twists and turns, including internal upheavals, a dramatic break ...(展开全部)

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is 'the religion of the end of religion'. In "The Disenchantment of the World", Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's cha...(展开全部)

An original and powerful statement which enables us to close the widening gap between liberal democracy and the events of a disordered world.

Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

作者：阿伦• 瓦兹(1915—1973) 美国神学博士，禅宗信徒，对东方哲学有精深的理解。他的思想受到铃木大拙的影响，同时又不局限于东西方宗教和哲学的某一领域。 生前出版的20多部有关宗教哲学和心理学的著作，在美国几乎每一部都是畅销书，并以多种语言在全球翻译出版，包括《禅之道》《心之道》等。 作为一个狂热的演讲者，瓦兹在20世纪60年代定期出现在广播节目中，并主持了热门的系列电视节目《东方智慧与现代生活》。他在美国的影响力甚至超过了吉杜·克里希那穆提。在1959 年出版的《垮掉禅、方形禅与禅》中，瓦兹为美国“垮掉的一代”的禅修实践命了名。 译者：蒋海怒 佛教禅学研究和译介学人，哲学博士，佛教思想史博士后，美国哥伦比亚大学东亚系2015—2016年访问学人。现任职于浙江理工大学，同时兼任中山大学、华东师范大学等校佛教及思想史研究机构专职研究人员。著译作...(展开全部)

After D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts stands as the godfather of Zen in America. Often taken to task for inspiring the flimsy spontaneity of Beat Zen, Watts had an undeniably keen understanding of his subject. Nowhere is this more evident than in his 1957 classic The Way of Zen, which has been reissued. Watts takes the reader back to the philosophical foundations of Zen in the conceptu...(展开全部)

三岛由纪夫，日本小说家，剧作家，记者，电影制作人，电影演员，是日本战后文学的大师之一，不仅在日本文坛拥有高度声誉，在西方世界也有崇高的评价，甚至有人誉称他为“日本的海明威”，曾二度入围诺贝尔文学奖，也是著作被翻译成英文等外国语版最多的当代作家。后为极端激进政治目的自杀谏世。