From “one of our most original writers” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book—firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive—about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer’s restless search—for what? is unclear, even to him—continues in this series of fascinating ad...(展开全部)

paperback edition of Anatoly M. Khazanov's famous comparative study of pastoral nomadism. Hailed by reviewers as "majestic and magisterial," Nomads and the Outside World was first published in English in 1984. With the author's new introduction and an updated bibliography, this classic is now available in an edition accessible to students.

Few experts have done more to present the world of children and parents to the general public than D.W. Winnicott. In this classic of child development, Winnicott explores problems of the only child, of stealing and lying, shyness, sex education in schools and the roots of aggression. 'His style is lucid, his manner friendly, and his years of experience provide much wise insigh...(展开全部)

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about "the stones that walk" and "the singing sand", which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and th...(展开全部)

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about "the stones that walk" and "the singing sand", which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and th...(展开全部)

A thrilling history of the West’s scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time.

葛吉夫（G. I. Gurdjieff ,1866～1949），曾经游学印度、西藏、埃及、麦加、苏丹、伊拉克，1912年在莫斯科与圣彼得堡成立修行团体，1917年俄国大革命，葛吉夫率领弟子到土耳其的君士坦丁堡，成立修行机构。1922年定居法国巴黎枫丹白露。他宣称“第四道”并非他发明的，而是渊自久远的古老智慧。葛吉夫博杂广大的密意知识经由大弟子邬斯宾斯基整理后，体系更加条理分明。

Great changes have taken place in the Quarter-century since the death of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, yet much of the mystery that surrounded him in his lifetime remains. This book satisfies the demand to "hear" his actual voice and direct instructions--in the form of conversations between Gurdjieff and his pupils. <br /> That any record of these lectures exists at all is due t...(展开全部)

`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.' Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the sardonic civil servant Carruthers is findin...(展开全部)

若热•亚马多（1912—2001），巴西当代著名作家，才华横溢，勤奋多产，在巴西拥有最广泛的读者，作品长年畅销不衰。1931年发表处女作《狂欢节之国》，1933年因发表以可可种植园农民的苦难生活为题材的小说《可可》一举成名。1937年由于参加进步政治运动被捕入狱，他的书被认为颠覆政权，《狂欢节之国》、《可可》、《汗珠》、《儒比亚巴》、《死海》、《沙滩船长》等被当众焚烧。后流亡国外，1952年回国后专事写作，1958年推出《加布里埃拉》，首印两万册，几天内销售一空。1961年当选为巴西文学院院士，五年后获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 若热•亚马多在近七十年的文学生涯中创作了三十多部长篇和短篇小说，以及诗歌、散文。其作品被译成四十九种文字，在五十五个国家出版。他在作品中反映了巴西社会生活的许多方面，创造了五百多个生动的人物形象，其中不少人物在巴西家喻户晓。他的作...(展开全部)