The introduction of this book reads, "Beauty, like every otherquality — courage, fear, ugliness, trust, truth, wisdom — is a partof us and apart from us, inside us and outside us, personal andimpersonal. Beauty invites us to build bridges and make connectionsbetween the senses and the soul, between contemplation andexpression, between ourselves and the world." In this wide-rangingand deeply felt book, artist and writer J. Ruth Gendler invites usto reclaim and celebrate the often misunderstood quality of beautyas one of the most profound and essential forces in our lives.Drawing upon observations from art and mythology, science andnature, contemporary culture and personal experience, the authorlooks at her subject in its most generous implications — not simplyas a reflection of surface and image, but as a pathway towholeness, integrity, coherence, and ultimately, to love. Writtenwith curiosity, courage, a discerning eye and a lyricalsensibility, and illustrated with evocative line drawings by theauthor,

In an era when the relationship between Islam and the Westseems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, it isimportant to remember that for centuries Muslim civilization wasthe envy of the world. Lost History fills a significant void and isessential reading for anyone seeking to understand the major theearly Muslims played in influencing modern society. Morgan reveals how early Muslim advancements in science andculture laid the cornerstones of the European Renaissance, theEnlightenment, and modern Western society. As he chronicles theGolden Ages of Islam, beginning in A.D. 570 with the birth ofMuhammad, and resonating today, he introduces scholars like IbnAl-Haytham, Ibn Sina, Al-Tusi, Al-Khwarizmi, and Omar Khayyam,towering figures who revolutionized the mathematics, astronomy, andmedicine of their time and paved the way for Newton, Copernicus,and many others. And he reminds us that inspired leaders fromMuhammad to Suleiman the Magnificent and beyond championedreligious tolerance, encou

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to itsprismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words,diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist RichardDawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomyand to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don'tlose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often ismore beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. Withthe wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him abest-selling author, Dawkins takes up the most important andcompelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics tolanguage and virtual reality, combining them in a landmarkstatement of the human appetite for wonder. This is the bookRichard Dawkins was meant to write: a brilliant assessment of whatscience is (and isn't), a tribute to science not because it isuseful but because it is uplifting.

本书包括：价值与货币；货币的特质性价值；目的序列中的货币；个体自由；个人价值之货币等价物；生活风格等。

《明夷待访录》是明末清初启蒙思想家和历史学家黄宗羲的政论和史论专著。该书通过对历史的深刻反思，总结了秦汉以来，特别是明代的历史教训，批判了封建君主专制制度，并提出了天下为主，君为客等一些比前人更进一步的民主观念，具有鲜明的启蒙性质和民主色彩，被梁启超称为[人类文化之一高贵产品]。

For the Earth to move to the next vibration, says RichardGrossinger, consciousness must change in profound ways, and theseinvolve core elements of humanity: evil, grief, bliss, andcompassion. 2013 locates these elements in often unlikely placesand seeks their nature and capacity for change. With playfulnessand precision, 2013 tackles the questions of creation and existencein their twenty-first-century incarnation. In these intellectualfield notes, the author’s absorbing style combines memoir withscientific deconstruction, metaphysical ontology, and experimentalprose that recalls the Black Mountain school to draw transcendentalinsight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. Movingwith equal ease between matters cosmic and earthly, Grossingerdetails existence as an exhilarating adventure always pushing ustoward a higher state in this wide-ranging, humorous, and heartfeltbook. Including an informal course in psychic development, 2013sheds light on the ephemera of planets and iPods, politics an

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of thedevelopment of philosophy for Catholic seminary students,Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophyhas journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its authorto universal acclaim as the best history of philosophyin English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who oncetangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled debate about theexistence of God and the possibility of metaphysics, knewthat seminary students were fed a woefully inadequatediet of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity with most of history's great thinkers was reduced tosimplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress thewrong by writing a complete history of Western philosophy,one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement --and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting histhought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing hislinks to those who went before and to those who came after him.

在《一张单程机票》中，曹启泰以真诚、乐观、永不放弃的态度面对读者，叙述自己跌宕起伏的故事，以及他无回无悔的经历。 ?20岁，他是手上握有10个节目的知名主持人； ?30岁，他开始经商却欠下1亿6000万的债务； ?40岁，他买了张单程机票飞往上海； ?2年后，他成为炙手可热的主持人，有《星空舞状元》、《太可乐了》、《上班这点事》、《波士堂》、《梦想奥运真男孩》、《花儿为什么这样红》、《久久合家欢》、《投资收藏》等横跨不同领域的节目； ?4年后，事业一度停摆，他却接下世博会的挑战，成为汽车馆的总导演，创造辉煌记录。 ?现在与未来50年，他还有很多、很多、很多的计划。 ?遭逢困境、寻求突破的人，努力工作、探索方向的人，超越现况、开创新局的人，这本书，你一定要读！

《华严经》在大乘佛教发展上，有着重要的地位，书中所提出的“十方成佛”及“修行十地”的理论，对佛教思想发展产生重要影响。而《原人论》作者圭峰宗密，少通儒书，但儒学智识并不能满足他对宇宙根本问题的追求，因缘际会过禅门、入华严，最终达到“外境内心，豁然无隔”之境。