1980 film by Woody Allen

Millions of lives are damaged by the legacy of parental abuse. Parents who ignored their children's needs or overburdened them with guilt. Parents who were alcoholic or addicted to drugs. Parents who were exploitative and cruel, or simply indifferent and inadequate. When these children reach adulthood the damage done by their toxic parents manifests itself in depression, or difficulties with relationships, careers and decision-making. This book confronts this painful legacy and shows why it is so difficult to put the past behind you. She offers alternatives for achieving inner peace and for freeing yourself from the frustrating patterns of your relationships with your parents. Filled with case histories and testimony from adult children of toxic parents, this book also offers the self-help techniques Dr Forward has developed to change the lives of her patients.

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Reprint. 125,000 first printing. NYT.

When a priest hears a murderer’s confession, he becomes bound by his vow of silence—even as circumstantial evidence turns suspicion toward him. Torn between faith and self-preservation, he faces public scandal and trial for a crime he cannot reveal the truth about.

The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the 'new middle class' in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era.

After D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts stands as the godfather of Zen in America. Often taken to task for inspiring the flimsy spontaneity of Beat Zen, Watts had an undeniably keen understanding of his subject. Nowhere is this more evident than in his 1957 classic The Way of Zen, which has been reissued. Watts takes the reader back to the philosophical foundations of Zen in the conceptual world of Hinduism, follows Buddhism's course through the development of the early Mahayana school, the birth of Zen from Buddhism's marriage with Chinese Taoism, and on to Zen's unique expression in Japanese art and life.
As a Westerner, Watts anticipates the stumbling blocks encountered with such concepts as emptiness and no-mind, then illustrates with flawlessly apt examples. Many popular books have been written on Zen since Watts' time, but few have been able to muster the rare combination of erudition and clarity that have kept The Way of Zen in readers' hands decade after decade. --Brian Bruya
In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity. Watts saw Zen as “one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world,” and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift to readers everywhere.

2004 film directed by Woody Allen

Paul Auster’s signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room—haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

This shocking, lively exposure of the intellectual vacuity of today’s under thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a nation of know-nothings.
Can a nation continue to enjoy political and economic predominance if its citizens refuse to grow up?
For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture available to young people and the impact it has on their futures. At the dawn of the digital age, many believed they saw a hopeful answer: The Internet, e-mail, blogs, and interactive and hyper-realistic video games promised to yield a generation of sharper, more aware, and intellectually sophisticated children. The terms “information superhighway” and “knowledge economy” entered the lexicon, and we assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to set themselves apart as the vanguards of this new digital era.
That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn’t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more astute, diversify their tastes, and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums, or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives, or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation is a startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its consequences for American culture and democracy.
Drawing upon exhaustive research, personal anecdotes, and historical and social analysis, Mark Bauerline presents an uncompromisingly realistic portrait of the young American mind at this critical juncture, and lays out a compelling vision of how we might address its deficiencies.

2014 American film directed by Nick Cassavetes

1999 film directed by Raja Gosnell

"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet's intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by "tools of the mind"--from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer--Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic--a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption--and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection. Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes--Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive--even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.

《红字》是霍桑的第一部长篇小说，一八五○年该书问世后，霍桑一举成名，成为当时公认的最重要的作家。《红字》故事的背景，是一六五○年前后的波士顿，当时的居民是一六二○至一六三○年间来此定居的第一代移民。他们都是在英格兰故土受詹姆斯一世迫害而抱着创建人间乐土的理想来新大陆的清教徒（加尔文主义者），史称“清教徒国父”（又译作“天路客国父”）。清教徒在英国最初是反抗罗马教皇专制、反对政教合一、反对社会腐败风气的，他们注重理智，限制感情，推崇理想，禁绝私欲；后来其中某些教派在北美殖民地却发展到极端，不但迫害异端，甚至连妇女在街上微笑都要处以监禁，儿童嬉戏也要加以鞭笞。

"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing in the process why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and singular gifts. Lively, erudite, and rich with examples, Proust and the Squid asserts that the brain that examined the tiny clay tablets of the Sumerians was a very different brain from the one that is immersed in today's technology-driven literacy. The potential transformations in this changed reading brain, Wolf argues, have profound implications for every child and for the intellectual development of our species.

Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.

老外法師隨聖嚴法師出家，
煩惱竟愈來愈多，
他如何跨越自己個性和語言文化障礙？
本書是他最誠實的修行筆記，
用自己實驗聖嚴法師禪法的結果報告。
一位熱愛中國功夫的典型美國男孩，隨聖嚴法師出家後，發現禪宗工夫更不可思議，本書即是他鍛鍊自我的出家心路歷程。
作者常聞法師出家前一直對生命感到焦慮，特別是對人際溝通的不安，用盡方法都無效，直至遇到明師聖嚴法師，發現平淡樸實的禪法，最能幫助他接納真實的自己，因此決心出家。
全書共分四大篇章：一、我是誰？；二、出家去；三、「僧」活大考驗；四、領執與回饋，並收錄近六十張珍貴照片。精彩內容包括早期在美國隨聖嚴法師禪修、前往臺灣法鼓山成為學僧、接受做為出家人的身心考驗、擔任聖嚴法師出國弘法時的侍者與翻譯工作……。
本書不只是一本引人好奇的西洋僧修行筆記，從尋找自我、面對自我，到放下我執領眾學禪的深刻分享，更是誠摯感人。作者跨越了語文界限，用「心法」翻譯出了禪的人生智慧。

◆当今文学世界最伟大的心灵，当代人文主义批评大师 乔治•斯坦纳经典代表作
◆最彻骨的现代启示录，最宏阔的人文主义襟怀
本书的主题——对政治暴行的深入反思——极具当代性
对文学的梳理兼具历史感与现实关怀
可谓能指引我们重识自身与时代的经典作品
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本书是乔治•斯坦纳的代表作，也是20世纪西方人文批评的经典著作。其核心议题是语言、文学批评与人道主义（及反人道主义）。其辑录的文章写于不同时期，但都共有一个根本的主题——语言的生命。在斯坦纳看来，语言是文化的代表。而现代西方的几股非人道主义逆流（尤其是纳粹）导致了语言文化的滥用与污染，使西方文学的创作陷入“沉默”。因此，在经历了种种浩劫之后，语言及其相关的现实世界究竟该何去何从？批评家与知识分子在这一过程中又该担当何种责任？

本书以大量的第一手资料，忠实地追述世界文豪陀思妥耶夫斯基的三次爱情经历，观察他对待女性的态度，剔除了对于事实真相的羞涩的沉默与常见的涂脂抹粉，以丰满的细节展示了陀氏圣洁情感与炙热情欲交杂的内心世界和情爱里程。