Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, and celebrities promoting the notion that Buddhism is spirituality for the rational; compatible with cutting-edge science; indeed, “...(展开全部)

Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist… or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, inef...(展开全部)

Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist… or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, inef...(展开全部)

詹姆斯 M.布坎南（James M. Buchanan，1919年10月3日- 2013年1月9日） 1986年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，以研究公共选择理论而闻名，因此获得诺贝尔经济学奖。 布坎南由于家境清贫，无法负担一流大学的学费，只好选择就读家乡的田纳西州立大学，并于1940年毕业，每日靠挤牛奶、打工赚取学费，这也塑成他一生清晨4点即起，比别人多工作4个小时的毅力。经过数年努力，1941年取得田纳西大学硕士学位（M.S.）。第二次世界大战时，被强迫派往纽约的海军战争学院，战后回归学术，于1948年获芝加哥大学博士学位。1983年受聘为弗吉尼亚州乔治梅森大学教授，布坎南在那里领导的公共选择理论学派还被人称为"政治经济学的弗吉尼亚学派"。 他有一个著名假设："政客或者官僚和所有人一样有利己之心。他们在实践政治时，是为了保住自己的乌纱帽或是增加已有权力，所...(展开全部)

I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Intelligent, insightful, inspirational, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish newly conscious of life's fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning...(展开全部)

玛姬·欧法洛（Maggie O’Farrell）,著名小说家，1972年出生于北爱尔兰。其首部作品《你走以后》（After You'd Gone）甫一出版即广受好评，并为其斩获贝蒂·特拉斯克奖。随后，其凭借《我们之间的距离》（The Distance Between Us）荣获2005年毛姆奖，又凭借《牵手之初》（The Hand That First Held Mine）荣获2010年科斯塔小说奖；此后，其作品还曾两度入围该奖的短名单。2017年，其出版了自己的首部回忆录《我存在：十七段与死亡擦肩而过的经历》（I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death），该作品很快便荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书单榜首。其于2020年出版的小说《哈姆内特》（Hamnet）则为其赢得了当年的女性小说奖和美国国家书评人协...(展开全部)

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O’Farrell has stared death in the face—and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life: The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter wit...(展开全部)

I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly -- a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a terrifically gifted new liter...(展开全部)

Why I Am Not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought ...(展开全部)

Why I Am Not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought ...(展开全部)