A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three horrific murders he must have committed but swears he didn't . . . An aging investigator in New York City has seen too much and lost too much -- and is ready to leave the darkness behind . . . But a nightmare is coming home -- because a brilliant, savage, patient monster has unfinished business in the big city . . . and a hu...(展开全部)

'A joy of a book - enriching, illuminating, eclectic and far from a conventional science read' Richard Webb, New Scientist 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius for our age' Robert Fox One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and huma...(展开全部)

This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. Arthur’s only chan...(展开全部)

克里希那穆提（J.Krishanmurti，1895－1986），印度的著名哲学家，20世纪最伟大的的心灵导师，在西方有着广泛而深远的影响。他主张真理纯属个人了悟，一定要用自己的光荣照亮自己。他一生的教诲皆在帮助人类从恐惧和无明中彻底解脱，体悟慈悲与至乐的境界。他的六十多册著作，都是由空性流露的演讲和讲话集结而成，目前已经译成了47种语言出版。 他是最卓越的宗教人物，是我所见过最美的人类。——乔治·萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw，1856-1950） 当他时入我的屋内时，我禁不住对自己说：“我绝对是菩萨无疑了！”——纪伯伦（Kahlil Gibran，1883-1931） 克里希那穆提是我知道的惟一能完全摒弃自我的人，和他相识是人生最光荣的事！——亨利·米勒（Henry Miller，1891-1980） 那是我听过的最难忘的演讲，就...(展开全部)

Once we came out of the jungle and found time to think of something besides food, sex, and shelter, we confronted the fundamental questions: what are we? who are we? Is a person a body or a soul? How do we access the external world if we are nothing but brains encased in bodies? As neuroscientists map the most detailed aspects of the human brain and its interplay with the rest ...(展开全部)

幾年前丹尼男孩因為結腸癌開了刀，又做了些之後的治療，我猜想是化療吧。這個病讓他明白了自己終有一死，而他的回應方式非常有趣：他製作了一份名單，列出所有他認識而死掉的人。伊蓮問他是不是還繼續在記那份名單。 我已經放棄了，他說，只要時間夠久，我都一直沒復發，我就可以開始相信自己大概擊敗那個混帳病了。不過真正讓我放棄的是世貿中心。雙塔垮掉兩天後，街角那個傢伙，我每天回家路上會跟他買一份報紙，到現在為止有二十年了，結果他現在告訴我，當時他兒子就在北樓裡，他媽的就在被飛機撞上的那一樓。我認識那個小孩，他小時候每星期六都會幫他父親弄星期天的《紐約時報》，把各個版夾成一份。湯米，這他名字。那天我回家，想把他列入我的名單，然後我心想，丹尼，你他媽以為自己在幹嘛？那些人死得快到你都來不及寫下來。

A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and ...(展开全部)

罗纳德·英格尔哈特（Ronald Inglehart, 1934—2021），美国著名政治学家，曾执教于美国密歇根大学，20世纪70年代起致力于政治文化的研究，成为80年代末政治文化复兴的重要推动者和领航者。 他主持的“世界价值观调查”项目提供了目前唯一 一个研究范围覆盖世界上约90%人口的民众价值观数据库，提出的“后物质主义理论”亦影响深远。由于贡献杰出，他成为少数入选美国艺术与科学院院士的社会科学学者之一，并于2011年荣获政治学领域里最重要的“约翰·斯凯特政治学奖”。 代表作品有《静悄悄的革命：西方民众变动中的价值与政治方式》《现代化与后现代化：43个国家的文化、经济与政治变迁》《发达工业社会的文化转型》等。

Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. For under extreme scarcity, xenophobia is realistic: if there is just enough land to support one tribe and another tr...(展开全部)

Through compelling personal stories, Sylvia Earle puts the peril of the ocean and its life in perspective for a wide public audience. Less than 10 per cent of all fish species remain. Half the coral reefs globally have died or are in sharp decline. Since the 1950s, 300 dead zones - oxygen-deficient areas that can't sustain life - have appeared along coasts. Contaminated water i...(展开全部)