An intimate and revealing look at the personal and professional life of the fashion world's most visionary designer. This incredible volume strips away the layers of legend surrounding Alexander McQueen, revealing the sartorial genius and the true history of the man who reinvented modern fashion. Uncovering new details about Lee Alexander McQueen's humble childhood in East Lond...(展开全部)

中译本：佛陀的女儿：南传佛教大修行人的传奇心灵 （此中译本有一些翻译错误，建议阅读英文原版） 译者： 周和君 出版社：台湾橡树林 初版日期：2003年09月09日 蒂帕嬷(Dipa Ma, 1911-1989)是当代南传上座部佛教传统中有大成就的一位女性阿罗汉, 她对于现代内观禅修界, 和西方南传佛教界影响深远。印度现代第一个内观禅修中心的创始人, 尊敬的拉斯特帕拉长老(Venerable Rastrapala Mahathera )是她的学生, 当今美国的佛教禅修导师杰克.康费尔德(Jack Kornfield), 莎伦.萨尔斯堡(Sharon Salzberg), 约瑟夫. 葛斯坦(Joseph Goldstein)也都是她的弟子。 蒂帕嬷的内观传承来自于缅甸的马哈希西亚多。

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial con...(展开全部)

American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William H. Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis of developments in each major Asian country, Asian international relations, and U.S. foreign policy. Drawing on decades of political and business experience, he argues that obsolete Cold War attitudes tie the U.S. increasingly to an otherwise isolated Japan and obscure the r...(展开全部)

Stephanie Dalley explores the spread of culture through literacy from Mesopotamia into Egypt, Palestine and Greece after a system of writing was developed. By gathering evidence from a vast range of material and literary sources from 3000 BC onwards, threads of influence and continuity are traced into the Middle Ages. The effect of rediscovery in recent times is evident in Euro...(展开全部)

Few have left a deeper impression on the world of typography than Jan Tschichold (1902â74), one of the most outstanding and influential designers of the 20th century. Not only was he was a master in his field, but he wrote a number of highly influential books and became instrumental in promoting the modernist design strategy called the New Typography. This substantial volume co...(展开全部)

龍安志，社會活動家、國際危機調停人、政治經濟學家和作家。20世紀90年代，他以專業律師和經濟學家身份擔任越南、老撾和柬埔寨央行的顧問，指導這些國家在社會主義轉型期的金融改革，並指導蒙古國的企業改制。在整個20世紀90年代，龍安志向中國的領導人就國有企業改革建言獻策。 自2002年以來，龍安志在喜馬拉雅的高原地帶，以新的模式恢復和發展藏族的文化傳統工藝，開發生態旅遊，將古舊藏族建築修復改造為精品客棧，為底層女性和殘疾人提供小額貸款，為邊遠地區的牧民提供醫療、興建學校。龍安志創辦了非政府組織香巴拉。他還作為北京和達賴喇嘛之間的橋樑，擔任談判中的對話者。 龍安志的著作主題廣泛，關於亞洲的有20多本。他是香港《南華早報》和《亞洲觀察》雜誌的專欄作家和評論員。目前，龍安志主要致力於“喜馬拉雅共識”非政府組織的工作和“非洲共識決議”的創立。

Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the best moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty new essays in this book were written in his honour and have all been inspired by his work—in particular, his work in an area of moral philosophy known as 'population ethics', which is concerned with moral issues raised by causing people to exist. Until P...(展开全部)