The Lotus Sutra is one of the most revered Mahayana texts, yet there are very few commentaries on it available in English. In this book, renowned Zenteacher Thich Nhat Hanh explores the Sutra’s main theme that everyone has the capacity to become a Buddha and that the Buddha nature is inherent in everything while emphasizing that Buddha-nature is the basis for peaceful action....(展开全部)

Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau.Each classic or original short story is printed on one sheet of paper and folded like a map. This m...(展开全部)

From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen , from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata , Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and again. In The Open Door the visionary director and theorist offers a lucid, comprehensive exposition of the philosophy that underlies his work. It is a philosophy of paradoxes: We come to the theatre to find life, but ...(展开全部)

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, "The Open Work" remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of two major themes of contemporary literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art,...(展开全部)

Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life. This is the story of the surgeon many call the father of open-heart surgery, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, along with colleagues at University Hospital in Minneapolis and a sma...(展开全部)

耶胡达·阿米亥（Yehuda Amichai,1924—2000），以色列当代诗人，也是二十世纪最重要的国际诗人之一。生于德国的乌尔兹堡，十二岁时随家迁居以色列，二战期间他在盟军犹太军队中服役，目击了以色列独立战争和西奈战役，战后他当过多年的中学教师，先后出版了诗集《诗：1948-1962》、《现在风暴之中，诗：1963-1968》、《时间》等十余部，在欧美诗坛上具有较大的影响，被译成数十种文字。他曾经多次获得国际国内文学奖，2000年逝世。 阿米亥的诗透明而睿智，善于使用圣经和犹太历史作为诗歌意象，把日常与神圣、爱情与战争、个人与民族等因素糅合起来，因此他的诗多涉人类的生存环境和普遍命运，其想象力丰富得惊人，具有深远的哲学意味和语言渗透力。

Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. In this text, leaders of Open Source come together to discuss the new vision of the software industry they have created, through essays that explain how the movement works, why it succeeds, and where it is going.

Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. In this text, leaders of Open Source come together to discuss the new vision of the software industry they have created, through essays that explain how the movement works, why it succeeds, and where it is going.

The richest, most fulfilling love of your life is yet to come! "The Authentic Heart offers practical, wise, and compassionate guidance for midlife love."--Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry "The Authentic Heart is a groundbreaking, insightful, warmly written book that I highly recommend to anyone wanting more loving, joyful relation...(展开全部)