In the spring of 2006, Bill Porter traveled through the heart of China, from Beijing to Hong Kong, on a pilgrimage to sites associated with the first six patriarchs of Zen. Zen Baggage is an account of that journey. He weaves together historical background, interviews with Zen masters, and translations of the earliest known records of Zen, along with personal vignettes. Porter’...(展开全部)

A revolutionary woman for her time, Emily Hahn takes us on an adventure through the many faces that populate the landscape of China. Blending fiction and non-fiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breath-taking journey through the China of the nineteen-thirties. Hahn investigates not so much the complicated issues of political blocs and p...(展开全部)

One of the world’s leading authorities on Zen Buddhism, D. T. Suzuki was the author of more than a hundred works on the subject in both Japanese and English, and was most instrumental in bringing the teachings of Zen Buddhism to the attention of the Western world. Written in a lively, accessible, and straightforward manner, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism is illuminating for ...(展开全部)

理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins，1941—　） 英国皇家科学院院士，牛津大学首席西蒙尼“公众理解科学教授”，进化论生物学家。他是英国著名科学作家，几乎每本书都是畅销书，并经常在各大媒体引起轰动。2005年，英国《前景》杂志会同美国《外交政策》杂志评选出在世的全球100名最有影响力的公共知识分子，道金斯赫然在列。 1976年出版的《自私的基因》是他最重要的代表作，他的基因观念颠覆了我们对自身的认知，深刻影响了整整一个时代。其他主要作品有《祖先的故事》《延伸的表型》《盲眼钟表匠》《地球上最伟大的表演》《解析彩虹》《魔鬼的牧师》《攀登不可能的山峰》《超越上帝》等。 黄可仁（Yan Wong） 英国进化论生物学家，在牛津大学师从道金斯，并与其合著《祖先的故事》。曾任教于利兹大学，现为广播电视主持人，致力于科学普及。

With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginning...(展开全部)

China's stunning diversity of natural habitats--from parched deserts to lush tropical forests--is home to more than 10 percent of the world's mammal species. A Guide to the Mammals of China is the most comprehensive guide to all 556 species of mammals found in China. It is the only single-volume reference of its kind to fully describe the physical characteristics, geographic di...(展开全部)

China is one of the largest countries in the world, covering 7% of the earth's land surface, and encompassing a hugely diverse range of habitats. As a result it boasts a rich and diverse avifauna, including some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds to be found anywhere in the world. John MacKinnon and Karen Phillipps' important new guide will be the first truly compreh...(展开全部)

China is one of the largest countries in the world, covering 7% of the earth's land surface, and encompassing a hugely diverse range of habitats. As a result it boasts a rich and diverse avifauna, including some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds to be found anywhere in the world. John MacKinnon and Karen Phillipps' important new guide will be the first truly compreh...(展开全部)

In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it not on...(展开全部)