Psychologist Seligman ( Learned Optimism ) here examines common psychological disorders according to their biological and societal, or learned, components. Most enlightening are his analyses of the effectiveness of relaxation, meditation, psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies in the treatment of anxiety, which, along with depression and anger, he claims, can largely be control...(展开全部)

Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? We have something deep and consistent within us that determines the choices we make and the situations we bring about. But why should members of the same species differ so markedly in their natures? What is the best personality to have; a bold one or a shy...(展开全部)

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man ...(展开全部)

Explore the gray areas in your gray matter—philosophical brainteasers from the bestselling author of The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? The author of the international bestseller The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten and his fellow founding editor of The Philosopher’s Magazine have some thought-provoking questions...(展开全部)

We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the world around us, and find respite from the hectic demands of everyday...(展开全部)

We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the world around us, and find respite from the hectic demands of everyday...(展开全部)

查爾斯．雷德（Charles Reid，1937-） 世界知名水彩大師，畫風清新自然，充分展現本身對於光影與色彩的深厚造詣，以及專業精湛的繪畫能力。生於美國紐約州劍橋村，曾於佛蒙特大學和紐約藝術學生聯盟修讀藝術。雷德獲獎無數，包括美國藝術與文學學院的柴爾德‧哈薩姆收藏獎，以及美國國家設計學院、美國水彩協會等眾多獎項。 雷德於一九八○年取得美國畫家最高殊榮，獲選為美國國家設計學院院士。其作品深受大眾喜愛，並獲得各大機構及收藏家爭相收藏，其中包含史密斯學院、黃石藝術中心、楊百翰大學、羅氏企業和美國國家設計學院。除了繪畫創作外，雷德還在全球各地教授研習班，並著有十餘本與水彩和油畫相關的書籍。 審訂者簡介 簡忠威 出生基隆。輔仁大學應用美術系畢業，台灣師範大學美術研究所西畫創作碩士，現任玄奘大學榮譽客座副教授。為首位入圍美國水彩畫協會AWS國際年展的台灣水彩...(展开全部)

GARTH GREENWELL is the author of Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow in fiction.

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual pred...(展开全部)

克里希那穆提（1895-1986），印度著名哲学家，当代最受推崇的心灵导师，已出版七十余本著作，全部由演讲和对话录集结而成，目前已被译成47国语言文字，在全世界产生了广泛而深远的影响。 克里希那穆提倡导，实现世界和平的唯一途径是人类心灵的转变，为此，我们每个人都应当自省其身，除此之外没有任何捷径可走，也没有任何大师或权威可以提供帮助。佛学家推崇克氏为中观导师，印度教吠檀多学者则认为他是个圆满的觉者。