More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James dubbed the knowledge that we must die “the worm at the core” of the human condition. In 1974, cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Denial of Death, arguing that the terror of death has a pervasive effect on human affairs. Now authors Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, ...(展开全部)

谢尔登·所罗门（Sheldon Solomon） 杰夫·格林伯格（Jeff Greenberg） 汤姆·匹茨辛斯基（Tom Pyszczynski） 3位社会心理学家，分别在斯基德莫尔学院、亚利桑那大学、科罗拉多大学担任心理学教授。 他们在研究和写作上的合作已经延续30多年了。他们在对死亡的恐惧这一主题上的研究不但获过奖，还受到了美国自然科学基金的支持。在这一研究中，他们将存在主义思想融入现代心理科学当中，使用最尖端的科学研究方法来探索这一长期以来被认为超越了科学研究范畴的领域。不同角度的整合带来了一些新的思考方式，思考关于文化、自尊和引发人们做出他们最高贵和最卑鄙行为的那些因素。

作者尼古拉斯·布莱克，1904年生于爱尔兰，英国牛津大学和剑桥大学教授，皇家文学协会副主席。主要作品以英国现代诗歌著称，并于1968年至1972年期间担任英国桂冠诗人。与此同时，还出版有20部侦探小说，是英国黄金时代侦探小说的代表性作家，其中以“奈杰尔·斯特雷奇威”为侦探主角的16部系列小说，囊括了黄金时代侦探小说的所有悬疑探案模式，文笔流畅，人物鲜明，被誉为西方犯罪小说的经典。一版再版，畅销不衰，并多次被改编成电影、电视剧，风靡一时。

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(展开全部)

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(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)

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)

The Role of the Individual in History was first published in 1898, and occupies a very prominent place among those of Plekhanov's works in which he substantiates and defends Marxism and advocates the Marxian theory of social development. Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918) was one of the leaders of Russian populism and after his emigration to Western Europe in 1880 becam...(展开全部)

【美】卡尔·萨根（Carl Sagan） 美国天文学家、科普作家、科幻作家。 艾萨克·阿西莫夫说生平只遇过两个人比他更为聪明，一个是计算机科学家马文·闵斯基，另一个就是卡尔·萨根，并推崇萨根为“历史中成功的科学普及家”。萨根提出让探测器搭载镌刻有人类问候信息的金属板和金唱盘，后者就是广为人知的“旅行者一号”和“旅行者二号”携带的“地球之音”唱片。康内尔大学荣誉校长评价说：萨根讲的题目是宇宙，而他的课堂是世界。萨根激发了无数人对科学和理性的热爱，为此他的墓志铭上写着：卡尔，你是我们在黑暗中的蜡烛。 译者简介： 丘宏义，普林斯顿高等研究院担任教授，尔后任职于美国国家航空航天局（NASA）担任天文物理与太空科学家长达35年，1969年荣获NASA荣誉杰出成就奖。

Cats. Jessica's never liked them. Especially not a skinny, ugly kitten that looks like a worm. Worm. Jessica wishes she'd never brought Worm home with her, because now he's making her do terrible things. She's sure she isn't imagining the evil voice coming from the cat, telling her to play mean tricks on people. But how can she explain what's happening?Witches. Jessica has read...(展开全部)