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令人神往的靜坐開悟：普林斯頓大受歡迎的佛學與現代心理學

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

by 羅伯．賴特(Robert Wright) ...

Translated by 宋宜真 ...

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● 我一直在等待一位實際且多疑的作者，來寫出一本關於佛教的書，而且必須好讀又清楚。現在終於有了這本！閱讀這本書，能踏上同時享受科學與精神的旅程。──現代正向心理學運動之父馬丁．賽里格曼●這是一本好書。結合進化心理學、哲學，還有佛教傳統經典和個人靜坐經驗，絕對獨特！──普林斯頓大學宗教系教授喬納森．古德●深具啟發、充滿知識，極有價值。我發現自己不僅邊看邊點頭同意作者所說，甚至還拍手叫好！──《紐約時報》普林斯頓大學高評分公開課程！第一本結合心理學、神經科學與佛學的作品，解析佛教推崇的靜坐，如何成為擁有清晰思慮和持久幸福的關鍵。你是否希望擺脫感受與錯覺的勒索？你是否希望用更謹慎敏銳、更清晰快樂的方式體驗這個世界？兩千多年來，佛教一直在研究人類心智是如何建置、如何對環境做出反應。現在，借助科學的發展、心理學實驗研究的累積、天擇理論的成熟，我們終於得以透過科學精神深入探討「無我」與「空」這兩. ... Read more

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● 我一直在等待一位實際且多疑的作者，來寫出一本關於佛教的書，而且必須好讀又清楚。現在終於有了這本！閱讀這本書，能踏上同時享受科學與精神的旅程。──現代正向心理學運動之父馬丁．賽里格曼●這是一本好書。結合進化心理學、哲學，還有佛教傳統經典和個人靜坐經驗，絕對獨特！──普林斯頓大學宗教系教授喬納森．古德●深具啟發、充滿知識，極有價值。我發現自己不僅邊看邊點頭同意作者所說，甚至還拍手叫好！──《紐約時報》普林斯頓大學高評分公開課程！第一本結合心理學、神經科學與佛學的作品，解析佛教推崇的靜坐，如何成為擁有清晰思慮和持久幸福的關鍵。你是否希望擺脫感受與錯覺的勒索？你是否希望用更謹慎敏銳、更清晰快樂的方式體驗這個世界？兩千多年來，佛教一直在研究人類心智是如何建置、如何對環境做出反應。現在，借助科學的發展、心理學實驗研究的累積、天擇理論的成熟，我們終於得以透過科學精神深入探討「無我」與「空」這兩.
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The Moral Animal

Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

by Robert Wright ...

One of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times Book Review)."Fiercely intelligent, beautifully written and engrossingly original." —The New York Times Book ReviewAre men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made ... Read more

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One of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times Book Review)."Fiercely intelligent, beautifully written and engrossingly original." —The New York Times Book ReviewAre men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made
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Robert Wright Two-Book Bundle

Three Nights in Havana and Our Man in Tehran

by Robert Wright ...

In Three Nights in Havana and Our Man in Tehran, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life two key events that shaped Canada’s diplomatic psyche and forever changed how Canada was viewed by the rest of the world.On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Three Nights in ... Read more

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In Three Nights in Havana and Our Man in Tehran, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life two key events that shaped Canada’s diplomatic psyche and forever changed how Canada was viewed by the rest of the world.On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Three Nights in
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Nonzero

The Logic of Human Destiny

by Robert Wright ...

In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a ... Read more

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In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a
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Three Nights In Havana

Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World

by Robert Wright ...

On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. “Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!” Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this ... Read more

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On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. “Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!” Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this
... Read more
The Evolution of God

by Robert Wright ...

In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure ... Read more

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In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure
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Trudeaumania

The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

by Robert Wright ...

Finalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book PrizeA Hill-Times Best Book of the YearNearly twenty years after his death and more than thirty since his retirement from active politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is at long last receding from the lived memory of Canadians. But despite the distance of time, he still holds court in the minds of many, and today his son Justin now lives at 24 Sussex Drive, his own man, ... Read more

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Finalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book PrizeA Hill-Times Best Book of the YearNearly twenty years after his death and more than thirty since his retirement from active politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is at long last receding from the lived memory of Canadians. But despite the distance of time, he still holds court in the minds of many, and today his son Justin now lives at 24 Sussex Drive, his own man,
... Read more
The Night Canada Stood Still

by Robert Wright ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe night of October 30, 1995, was like no other in Canadian history. The young, modern nation that the UN Human Development Index had ranked #1 for the two previous years now faced its greatest challenge: the possibility of fracturing as Quebecers made a fateful decision—whether to separate from Canada—in a referendum that pollsters estimated would be as close as close could be ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe night of October 30, 1995, was like no other in Canadian history. The young, modern nation that the UN Human Development Index had ranked #1 for the two previous years now faced its greatest challenge: the possibility of fracturing as Quebecers made a fateful decision—whether to separate from Canada—in a referendum that pollsters estimated would be as close as close could be
... Read more
Por que o budismo funciona

Como a psicologia evolucionista e a neurociência explicam os benefícios da meditação

by Robert Wright ...

Translated by Claudio Carina ...

"Esperei a vida inteira por uma explicação lúcida e fácil de ler sobre o budismo feita por uma mente cética e rigorosa. Aqui está. Esta é uma viagem científica e espiritual diferente de qualquer outra que já fiz." – Martin Seligman, autor de Felicidade autêntica"Uma fantástica introdução racional à meditação. Um livro que me fez sorrir um pouco e dar algumas risadas. Um guia irônico, autocrítico e ... Read more

$7.49 USD

"Esperei a vida inteira por uma explicação lúcida e fácil de ler sobre o budismo feita por uma mente cética e rigorosa. Aqui está. Esta é uma viagem científica e espiritual diferente de qualquer outra que já fiz." – Martin Seligman, autor de Felicidade autêntica"Uma fantástica introdução racional à meditação. Um livro que me fez sorrir um pouco e dar algumas risadas. Um guia irônico, autocrítico e
... Read more
The Sinking of the Lusitania

by Robert Wright ...

The Sinking of the Lusitania is a collection of short stories linked together by the medal of the same name. Some stories have an autobiographical element, some are historically based, and others are purely fictitious. The stories span the period from the early 1930s to the year 2025, with settings ranging from central Britain to Poland, Germany, and France. Themes of romance and nostalgia are ... Read more

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The Sinking of the Lusitania is a collection of short stories linked together by the medal of the same name. Some stories have an autobiographical element, some are historically based, and others are purely fictitious. The stories span the period from the early 1930s to the year 2025, with settings ranging from central Britain to Poland, Germany, and France. Themes of romance and nostalgia are
... Read more
Weapons of War

A Soldier's Story of Service, Love and Faith

by Robert Wright ...

"Weapons of War'' is an amazing story of a young African American who was drafted, trained as a combat soldier, and deployed to the Republic of South Vietnam. Assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (Alpha Co. 2/506 3rd Platoon), he soon discovered that the North Vietnamese Regulars, the Viet Cong Guerrillas, and the environmental conditions were not his only adversaries in this faraway war. ... Read more

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"Weapons of War'' is an amazing story of a young African American who was drafted, trained as a combat soldier, and deployed to the Republic of South Vietnam. Assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (Alpha Co. 2/506 3rd Platoon), he soon discovered that the North Vietnamese Regulars, the Viet Cong Guerrillas, and the environmental conditions were not his only adversaries in this faraway war.
... Read more
Our Place in the Sun

Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era

Edited by Robert Wright, Lana Wylie ...

Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon the past but also explore the internal issues and external forces that will continue to influence the Canada-Cuba association in the years to come.Many of this volume's contributors draw upon newly ... Read more

$33.09 USD

Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon the past but also explore the internal issues and external forces that will continue to influence the Canada-Cuba association in the years to come.Many of this volume's contributors draw upon newly
... Read more