隐士是中国历史上一个非常独特的文化现象。在那为数众多的历代隐士群体中，纵然也有不少佛、道教的信徒，但他们却主要不是出于宗教信仰而隐居的。他们的隐居，主要是为了实现自我，按自己喜欢的生活方式过自己的生活。他们的隐居，开始也许是出于一种政治态度和政治选择，逐渐就转化、发展成一种生活方式和人生价值追求，并最终趋向一种审美境界和文化追求。在这个过程中，隐士们以自己的种种价值认定、人生实践和文化创造极大地影响了中国的历史文化传统。《适性任情的审美人生：隐逸文化与休闲》对中国古代隐逸文化做了认真地梳理、耙块，并探讨了中国隐逸文化的理想与价值追求、精神。

An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer(“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) andcentral figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-classcocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of countryclubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage andmotherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growingdissatisfaction with domestic life, and a blossoming awareness ofthe social inequities in Nicaragua, led her to join theSandinistas, then a burgeoning but still hidden organization. Shewould be involved with them over the next twenty years at thehighest, and often most dangerous, levels. Her memoir is both a revelatory insider’s account of the Revolutionand a vivid, intensely felt story about coming of age underextraordinary circumstances. Belli writes with both strikinglyricism and candor about her personal and political lives: abouther family, her children, the men in her life; about her po

If you’ve been struggling with your weight, you know how hard itcan be to lose those extra pounds and keep them off. In thegroundbreaking Think Thin, Be Thin , nationally prominentpsychotherapist Doris Wild Helmering and award-winning healthwriter Dianne Hales assert that the true key to a healthy bodyweight is a healthy attitude toward food and exercise. Their logicis simple: Your brain ultimately controls what you eat and whetheryou work out. If you change the way you think, you can change theway you behave. And you can lose weight. Using proven psychological strategies and scientifically basedexercises, you will learn how to harness your thoughts to transformyour behavior, body, and life. With practical advice on suchtroublesome issues as curbing emotional eating, motivating yourselfto exercise, and overcoming diet plateaus, this book is the idealcomplement to any diet and weight-loss program.

Walking his two young children to school every morning, ThadCarhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Parisneighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign—Desforges Pianos—heenters, only to have his way barred by the shop’s imperious owner.Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands the properintroduction, and a world previously hidden is brought into view.Luc, the atelier’s master, proves an indispensable guide to thehistory and art of the piano. Intertwined with the story of amusical friendship are reflections on how pianos work, theirglorious history, and stories of the people who care for them, fromamateur pianists to the craftsmen who make the mechanism sing. ThePiano Shop on the Left Bank is at once a beguiling portrait of aParis not found on any map and a tender account of the awakening ofa lost childhood passion.

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul torevisit his native country and record his impressions. In thisclassic of modern travel writing he has created a deft andremarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacentCaribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slaveryand colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empirethat they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending. In The Middle Passage , Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movieaudience greeting Humphrey Bogart’s appearance with cries of “Thatis man!” He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that thelocals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially chargedelection campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at theGallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains thefiction that its roads are extensions of France’s routesnationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes ofthe region’s colonial past and shows how they continue to informits language, politics, a

Finally! A concise set of practical, ignore-at-your-own risk guidelines that married couples and about-to-be-marrieds can consult for the definitive word on matrimonial relations. Rules for Husbands and Rules for Wives lay down the law in a way that's both hilarious and so close to the truth it hurts. James Dale covers it all, from "an appliance is not a gift" to "let him hold the TV remote; it makes him feel like he's in control of something." A gift for all occasions, or just to say "I love you" with a laugh. 作者简介： Jim Dale is the mastermind behind the Too-Bad-It's-Your-Birthday books, the Two of Us series, Stepwise: A Parent-Child Guide to Family Mergers, and The Joys of Motherhood humor book. His highly successful humor greeting cards, "The Dales," have sold millions worldwide.

For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward'slegendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters")dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers.Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrantslearn about their new country, the column also gave them a forumfor seeking advice and support in the face of problems ranging fromwrenching spiritual dilemmas to petty family squabbles to thesometimes hilarious predicaments that result when Old World meetsNew Isaac Metzker's beloved selection of these letters andresponses has become for today's readers a remarkable oral recordnot only of the varied problems of Jewish immigrant life in Americabut also of the catastrophic events of the first half of ourcentury.

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.”—Epictetus “Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow.”—Matthew 24:28 Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellinglywritten investigative exposé of the lucrative business ofprocuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, orcremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group ofentrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains. Whilethe government has controls on organs and tissue meant fortransplantation, these “body brokers” capitalize on the myriadother uses for dead bodies that receive no federal oversightwhatsoever: commercial seminars to introduce new medical gadgetry;medical research studies and training courses; and U.S. Armyland-mine explosion tests. A single corpse used for these purposescan generate up to $10,000. As journalist Annie Cheney found while reporting on this subjectover the cour

What if there were a land where people lived longer thananywhere else on earth, the obesity rate was the lowest in thedeveloped world, and women in their forties still looked like theywere in their twenties? Wouldn't you want to know theirextraordinary secret? Japanese-born Naomi Moriyama reveals the secret to her ownhigh-energy, successful lifestyle-and the key to the enduringhealth and beauty of Japanese women-in this exciting new book. TheJapanese have the pleasure of eating one of the most delicious,nutritious, and naturally satisfying cuisines in the world withoutdenial, without guilt...and, yes, without getting fat or lookingold. As a young girl living in Tokyo, Naomi Moriyama grew up in thefood utopia of the world, where fresh, simple, wholesome fare isprized as one of the greatest joys of life. She also spent muchtime basking in that other great center of Japanese food culture:her mother Chizuko's Tokyo kitchen. Now she brings the traditionalsecrets of her mother's kitchen to you in a book that embo

Traveling from the Natchez Trace to the cotton fields of theDelta, Walton assesses Mississippi's legacy of nostalgia,bitterness, and heartache. He weaves in the stories of his family,as well as those of slaves and Confederate generals, redneckdemagogues and civil rights martyrs, writers and bluesmen, blackand white. 12 photos. 304 pp. Author tour.

Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the mostfundamental elements of American history—the conquest of newfrontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts,African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupationsexplore and reflect on the meaning of frontier, both literally andmetaphorically. This collection chronicles the search for freedom and opportunityand the achievement of success in a wide variety of fields. Thecontributors all pushed beyond self-imposed or culturally enforcedboundaries to pursue their dreams and ambitions. They include MarkDean, an IBM vice president and member of the Inventors Hall ofFame, who holds three of the original patents upon which thepersonal computer is based; the civil-rights attorney Oliver W.Hill, one of the architects of the Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court case; the classical pianist and museum founderJosephine Love; and L. Douglas Wilder, the grandson of slaves whobecame the first African American governor of Vi