被誉为“灵魂的导师，心灵的道友”的慧敏，在哈佛大学求学时，疯狂怀念母语，于是开始用推特记录自己日常生活中的感悟，用母语与人交流。没想到，这些简单的文字，不仅让自己感到安慰，那些无意中看到日志的人，也纷纷留言说获得了疗愈。他们开始试着理解那些不能原谅的人，决心从现在起爱惜不争气的自己，筋疲力尽地下班后，又突然精神百倍。通过与网友的交流，他也了解到，每天只睡四小时的创业者的煎熬，因学习压力过大想要自杀的学生的痛苦，面临毕业和失业的青年的苦闷。原来，每个人都活得如此艰难。他希望《人生那么长，停一下又何妨》，能够给那些感觉终日被生存压力驱赶的人，那些追求轻松生活却不得的人，那些因自己的不如意去怨恨别人的人，那些期盼着真爱的人，带来哪怕只有一点点的，帮助。

本书从考古发现的风水起源，介绍了古代对风水一建筑及其选址之间密不可分关系的认识，昭示了风水与易经、八卦、历法以及阴阳变易、天人合一等诸多领域之间的互补关系，展现了风水用于古都选址、城镇布局、村落聚散、民宅营建等方面的方法、手段和重要作用。

Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943. Though the book is thick, dense, and unfriendly to careless readers, it is indispensable to those interested in the philosophy of consciousness and free will. Some of his arguments are fallacious, others are unclear, but for the most part Sartre's thoughts penetrate deeply into fundamental philosophical territory. Basing his conception of self-consciousness loosely on Heidegger's "being," Sartre proceeds to sharply delineate between conscious actions ("for themselves") and unconscious ("in themselves"). It is a conscious choice, he claims, to live one's life "authentically" and in a unified fashion, or not--this is the fundamental freedom of our lives. Drawing on history and his own rich imagination for examples, Sartre offers compelling supplements to his more formal arguments. The waiter who detaches himself from his job-role sticks in the reader'

In this book, originally published in 2007, Chiara Botticiargues for a philosophical understanding of political myth. Botticidemonstrates that myth is a process, one of continuous work on abasic narrative pattern that responds to a need for significance.Human beings need meaning in order to master the world they livein, but they also need significance in order to live in a worldthat is less indifferent to them. This is particularly true in therealm of politics. Political myths are narratives through which weorient ourselves, and act and feel about our political world.Bottici shows that in order to come to terms with contemporaryphenomena, such as the clash between civilizations, we need aCopernican revolution in political philosophy. If we want to savereason, we need to look at it from the standpoint of myth.

In this beautifully written collection, Molly Wolf serves up her unique brand of what she calls "God-Talk." She takes the language of Christian faith and religion, sets it in the context of her keen observations of everyday experience, and unpacks it, opening it up to make it real and close up and important. Revel in Wolf's juicy metaphors and rejoice in the fact that she serves up a feast for all those who hunger to eat. "The book you have in your hand, White China, is a compilation of pieces of Molly Wolf. One normally says that pieces are by an author; but I mean what I say. These are pieces of Molly Wolf that are as fearlessly presented and as lacking in self-protection as is the latter half of her name. No one is blocked from entering here, no one is going to be conned, and no one need hold up his or her guard while inside these pages. This is a conversation with Molly played out by the rules of Wolf." —from the Foreword by Phyllis Tickle "Molly Wolf gives us down-to-earth, po

Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato.

Review 'Must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the weight of over-cooked Augustanisms.' - The Guardian Must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the weight of over-cooked Augustanisms. - The Guardian Product De*ion "... must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the weight of over-cooked Augustanisms." The Guardian "The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." --William Wordsworth, from the Advertisement prefacing the original 1798 edition When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to what had been voiced before. For Wordsworth, as he so clearly stated in his celebrated preface to the 1800 edition (a

The Yeats anthology of the poems of William Blake is that great rarity: one great visionary poet's anthology of everything that moves him about another, even greater one. Yeats prepared it in 1905 and it probably remains the single greatest single one-volume edition of William Blake extant, the one that, in less than 250 pages, presents as sensibly compressed and canny an edition as you'll ever find of perhaps the least sensible and most chaotic genius of English poetry. Even those who have the complete Blake in a couple of editions will find Yeats' Blake all-but-indispensable. –Buffalo News, April 6, 2003 This selection of Blake's work was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats. Yeats, one of the few poets comparable to Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings.