This book brilliantly charts history's many different ways of explaining the unconscious mind, from ancient descriptions of the "underworld" to theories of contemporary neuroscience. Guy Claxton's beautifully written book takes in intellectual and cultural history, literature, and spirituality. In "The Wayward Mind," the common image of the mind is skillfully redrawn to acknowl...(展开全部)

This book brilliantly charts history's many different ways of explaining the unconscious mind, from ancient descriptions of the "underworld" to theories of contemporary neuroscience. Guy Claxton's beautifully written book takes in intellectual and cultural history, literature, and spirituality. In "The Wayward Mind," the common image of the mind is skillfully redrawn to acknowl...(展开全部)

On April 8, 1990, the pilot episode of Mark Frost and David Lynch's iconic television series, Twin Peaks, aired on ABC, and for a moment, the mystery of Who Killed Laura Palmer? held America transfixed. I was twelve at the time, and I will never forget the feeling that took hold of me as I watched this quirky show about a creepy town with damn fine coffee and brilliant cherry p...(展开全部)

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, ...(展开全部)

盖伊•克拉克斯顿（GUY CLAXTON），国际知名的学者、作家、咨询师与讲学人，学术专长领域为创造性、教育和意识。他在英国剑桥大学读本科时取得过自然科学类学位考试双甲等的难得成绩，继而又在牛津大学获得博士学位。自1993年来，他一直在英国布里斯托尔大学任科学教育学客座教授。

Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than mutually exclusive manner. From this perspective the six chapters explore proble...(展开全部)

盖伊•克拉克斯顿（GUY CLAXTON），国际知名的学者、作家、咨询师与讲学人，学术专长领域为创造性、教育和意识。他在英国剑桥大学读本科时取得过自然科学类学位考试双甲等的难得成绩，继而又在牛津大学获得博士学位。自1993年来，他一直在英国布里斯托尔大学任科学教育学客座教授。

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, ...(展开全部)

Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than mutually exclusive manner. From this perspective the six chapters explore proble...(展开全部)

Germania is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. A very funny book on serious topics---how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: ...(展开全部)