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  • 當呼吸化為空氣:一位天才神經外科醫師最後的生命洞察(揪心感動暢銷版)

    When Breath Becomes Air

    Translated by 唐勤 ...
    Series series 人生顧問
    人終將一死,但當死亡迫近時,我們才會開始學習如何好好活著。*蟬聯亞馬遜書店長銷榜的經典動人之作。*榮獲紐約時報暢銷書。*入選普立茲獎決選名單、比爾.蓋茲2017年推薦書單。「這本小書擁有非常多層次的意義及諸多的對比關係,比如生與死、病人與醫生、兒子與父親、工作與家庭、信仰與理智。在保羅短暫的一生中,他透過書籍、寫作、醫學、手術、科學等各種方式探尋生命的意義。我非常有幸能閱讀這本書,得以見證這段旅程的一小部分。」──比爾.蓋茲「患病後,棘手之處在於,你的價值觀不斷在變……你決定要把時間花在當神經外科醫師,可是兩個月後,你不那麼想了。再過兩個月,你也許想去學吹薩克斯風,或想全心服事教會。死亡是個單一事件,可是身罹絕症地活下去,卻是個歷程。」──保羅.卡拉尼提即將攀上充滿希望的人生巔峰,死亡的陰影卻突然橫亙身前,一位三十七歲的... ... Read more

    Was $7.76 USD Now $6.58 USD

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    Pulitzer Prize Finalist

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLDThis inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?**“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.”—Janet Maslin, The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Grieving Body

    How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing

    Series series The Grieving Brain Series
    “No one has done more for the science of grief than Mary-Frances O’Connor. Deeply human and wise, The Grieving Body delivers a grounded, logical understanding of the effects of stress and loss on our bodies. O’Connor doesn’t just explain what happens and why, she offers hopeful, beautiful solutions to support ourselves and our world.” - Megan Devine, author of It’s Ok that You’re Not OkThe follow ... Read more

    Was $18.49 USD Now $4.79 USD

  • The Lost Art of Dying

    Reviving Forgotten Wisdom

    by L.S. Dugdale ...
    A Columbia University physician comes across a popular medieval text on dying well written after the horror of the Black Plague and discovers ancient wisdom for rethinking death and dying, gaining insight today on how we can learn the lost art of dying well in this wise, clear-eyed book that is as compelling and soulful as Being Mortal, When Breath Becomes Air, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.As a ... Read more

    Was $11.29 USD Now $4.79 USD

  • Morbid

    Debunking Modern Longevity Science

    A darkly comedic journey into the science of aging—where ethics are irrelevant, the studies are a sales pitch, and the “world's oldest living people” all turn out to be dead.Our morbid fascination with death and dying has created an opening for all manner of skullduggery in the science of aging—an area of study that Morbid reveals to be rife with misleading claims, mistaken assumptions, and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Lessons on Living

    Finding Your Way Through Life's Ups and Downs from the respected New Zealand psychologist and bestselling author

    by Nigel Latta ...
    Bestselling author Nigel Latta's simple psychological toolkit for life's ups and downs.What do you do when you're told you only have months to live?If you're like Nigel Latta, first, you're going to eat a lot of ice cream. Then, you're going to assemble a mental toolbox to deal with every conceivable conundrum the world could throw at you (the small ones and the big ones).After three decades ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Dark Archives

    A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

    On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Judgement Day

    Deeds That Light the Way

    by Omar Suleiman ...
    Omar Suleiman is one of America's most influential Muslims. He has over 2.7 MILLION Facebook followers and regularly appears on television and social media arguing for justice.He is listed as one of the 500 most influential Muslim in the world, and listed by CNN as one of 25 Muslims changing America.In recent months and years he has been a prominent critic of the separation of migrant children ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, Fifth Edition

    A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner

    Gain Clinical Clarity and Confidence for Complex Loss.About This TextThe gold-standard resource on the tasks of mourning and evidence-based interventions, connecting theory to practice across settings, cultures, and the lifespan.*"In the fields of death education, research, and counseling/psychology, surely Bill Worden is a giant. ALL of us, personally and professionally, are indebted to [him]. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Extra Time

    10 Lessons for an Ageing World

    ‘An inspirational call to arms’ DAILY MAIL‘This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whispering into the prime ministerial ear’ THE TIMES‘A thoughtful handbook to help societies age gracefully’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘This bold, visionary book is a wake-up call to governments. It is a w... ... Read more

    $5.59 USD

  • Comfort

    A Journey Through Grief

    by Ann Hood ...
    “Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance.” — Entertainment WeeklyIn 2002, Ann Hood’s five-year-old daughter Grace died suddenly from a virulent form of strep throat. Stunned and devastated, the family searched for comfort in a time when none seemed possible. Hood—an accomplished novelist—was unable to read or write. She could only reflect on her lost daughter— ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Do We Have the Right to Die?

    Series series Think Again
    Two expert thinkers tackle one of the most difficult and divisive issues of our times: assisted dying'Absolutely fantastic. It gives you a deep sense of the morality, the legality, the technicality. Invaluable' XAND VAN TULLEKEN'Nuanced and thoughtful' OBSERVERAs pressure grows to legalise assisted dying in the UK, this book illuminates the legal and ethical fault lines at the heart of the debate. ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • Del Mictlán al Día de Muertos

    Un viaje donde la vida y la muerte dialogan

    ¿De dónde proviene el Día de Muertos y la misteriosa calidez de un altar? ¿Por qué el mundo entero —y Latinoamérica en particular— ha vuelto la mirada hacia México para fascinarse con su forma de celebrar la muerte entre música, color, flores de cempasúchil y pan de muerto? ¿Qué verdades profundas se esconden detrás de esta celebración?Del Mictlán al Día de Muertos es una invitación a descubrir la ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Opioids and Organs

    A heartwrenching memoir of a daughter losing her father and a scathing indictment of the medical industryArizona grieves at the hospital bed of her father, a man she hardly knew, brain dead after a fentanyl overdose. Doctors encourage her to act quickly to recast him as a hero by way of organ donations. Distraught, Arizona makes a decision that will haunt her for the rest of her life. As she ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Death Does Not Exist

    What Science and Spirituality Can Teach Us About the Afterlife

    Translated by Gretchen Schmid ...
    This provocative international bestseller follows the trail blazed by Raymond Moody's Life After Life, revealing what happens after we die, weaving first-hand experience with emerging scientific discoveries.Death does not exist.When we die, we don’t stop living. We change worlds.What happens when we die? What happens to our consciousness? Does it outlive brain death? Those pressing and eternal ... Read more

    Was $17.89 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • The Conversation

    A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care

    In this "enlightening" (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic end-of-life care: talking, medicine's oldest tool.There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • I'm Sorry for My Loss

    An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America

    A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.I'm Sorry for My Loss delves into the abyss of pregnancy loss, a topic that is misunderstood and full of guilt and shame, written with emotional resonance and humor by authors who have both been through it themselves. Rebecca Little and Colleen Long, childhood friends who grew up to be journalists, enlighten readers on ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • On Suicide

    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why do certain social, religious ... Read more

    $4.66 USD

  • Ghostland

    An American History in Haunted Places

    by Colin Dickey ...
    **One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Why We Die

    The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

    "Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson"An incredible journey." —Siddhartha Mukherjee*WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY**2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER FOR SCIENCE AND COSMOLOGY*A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan... ... Read more

    Was $20.09 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • 令人著迷的生與死:耶魯大學最受歡迎的哲學課

    Death

    Translated by 陳信宏 ...
    Series series 人文思潮
    來自生命的最終邀請,上一堂人生最重要的必修課。◆ 長春藤名校最受歡迎的三大公開課程之一,全球上億人次點閱!◆ 最犀利風趣的生死學!顛覆你對於生命與死亡的想像與理解。長春藤名校有三大最受歡迎的公開課程:哈佛桑德爾的《正義》、班夏哈的《更快樂》,以及耶魯雪萊‧卡根的《令人著迷的生與死》。猶如老頑童的卡根教授,留著落腮鬍,穿著牛仔褲與帆布鞋,盤腿坐在講台上,幽默熱情且手舞足蹈的與學生探討死亡的本質,讓哲學課一點也不枯燥,大師風采令人著迷。卡根教授挑戰一般人對於死亡的普遍觀點,例如真的有靈魂嗎?死後還能繼續存在?永生是好事?自殺是不道德的?我們應該對死亡感到恐懼嗎?他在書中援引古今哲學,並以日常生活事件為例,透過反覆辯證,以清晰的脈絡探討死亡的意義,進而帶領我們探索生命的價值,該以何種態度面對人生這趟旅程:思考死亡,才能了解生命的美好;當我們正視生與死的本質,才能擁有好好活著的勇氣,並且懷抱感激。 ... Read more

    $11.40 USD

  • Between Two Kingdoms

    A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American SymphonyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • La vida al final

    Translated by Daniel Najmías Bentolila ...
    Una lectura llena de calidez y sensibilidad acerca de lo efímero de la vida, la importancia de las relaciones humanas y el valor del tiempo que nos queda.Martin, un abogado de setenta y seis años, recibe el inesperado diagnóstico de una enfermedad terminal. Felizmente casado con una mujer mucho más joven que él y padre de un niño pequeño, deberá enfrentarse a una pregunta ineludible: ¿cómo vivir ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Minute Six

    How High-Performance Teams Navigate the Unknown

    by Kevin Fong ...
    No plan survives the first five minutes of contact with reality – so how should we prepare for what follows?A unique survival guide for an uncertain world from Kevin Fong, doctor, expert in major-incident planning and response, NASA physician and helicopter emergency medic'Invaluable' TIM PEAKE'Inspiring' OLIVIA COLMAN'Humane, gripping and profound' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN'T... ... Read more

    $12.69 USD