In 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor of the rough-hewn lands of the American West. The dramatic terrain they struggled to cross is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening-even godforsaken-its sheer rock faces and barren deserts seemed to our forebears.?Hard Road West brings their perspective vividly to life, weaving together the epic overland journey of the covered wagon trains and the compelling story of the landscape they encountered. Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Trail, Keith Meldahl uses the diaries and letters of the settlers themselves-as well as the countless hours he has spent following the trail-to reveal how the geology and geography of the West directly affected our nation's westward expansion. He guides us through a corrugated landscape of sawtooth mountains, following the meager streams that served as lifelines through an arid land, all the way to California itself, where colliding tectonic plates created breathtaking scenery and planted the gold that lured travelers west in the first place.?"e;Alternates seamlessly between vivid accounts of the 19th-century journey and lucid explanations of the geological events that shaped the landscape traveled. . . . The reader comes away with both an appreciation for the arduous cross-continental wagon journey and an understanding of the events that created such a vast and difficult landscape."e;-Library Journal?"e;[Meldahl] draws on his professional knowledge to explain the geology of the West, showing how centuries of geological activity had a direct effect on the routes taken by the travelers. . . . Meldahl provides a novel account of the largest overland migration since the Crusades."e;-Science News

Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and Wittgenstein. Beginning with an introductory essay that places his own work in a philosophical and historical context, Cavell guides his reader through his thought process when composing and editing his lectures while making larger claims about the influence of institutions on philosophers, and the idea of progress within the discipline of philosophy. In "e;Declining Decline,"e; Cavell explains how language modifies human existence, looking specifically at the culture of Wittgenstein's writings. He draws on Emerson, Thoreau, and many others to make his case that Wittgenstein can indeed be viewed as a "e;philosopher of culture."e; In his final lecture, "e;Finding as Founding,"e; Cavell writes in response to Emerson's "e;Experience,"e; and explores the tension between the philosopher and language-that he or she must embrace language as his or her?"e;form of life,"e; while at the same time surpassing its restrictions. He compares finding new ideas to discovering a previously unknown land in an essay that unabashedly celebrates the power and joy of philosophical thought.?

Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translation of his most celebrated novel, Simone-which won the 2013 Romulo Gallegos International Novel Prize-will introduce an English-language audience to this extraordinary literary talent.A tale of alienation, love, suspense, imagination, and literature set on the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Simone tells the story of a self-educated Chinese immigrant student courting (and stalking) a disillusioned, unnamed writer who is struggling to make a name for himself in a place that is not exactly a hotbed of literary fame. By turns solipsistic and political, romantic and dark, Simone begins with the writer's frustrated, satiric observations on his native city and the banal life of the university where he teaches-forces utterly at odds with the sensuality of his writing. But, as mysterious messages and literary clues begin to appear-scrawled on sidewalks and walls, inside volumes set out in bookstores, left on his answering machine and under his windshield wiper-Simone progresses into a cat-and-mouse game between the writer and his mystery stalker. When the eponymous Simone's identity is at last revealed, the writer finds in the life of this Chinese immigrant a plight not unlike his own. Traumatized and lonely, the pair moves towards bittersweet collaborations in passion, grief, and art.

The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "e;Manawaka series,"e; named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation.In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant."e;This is a revelation, not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses."e;-Robertson Davies, New York Times"e;It is [Laurence's] admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal; she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end."e;-Honor Tracy, The New Republic"e;Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."e;-Atlantic"e;[Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing-and the most touching-portraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth."e;-Time"e;Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight."e;-Granville Hicks, Saturday Review"e;The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old."e;-Paul Pickrel, Harper's

周超凡为当代著名中医药学家。本书汇集了其论文、论著等研究成果，访谈、序言、书信、诗词及政协提案、述评报道等相关资料，是其学习经历、科研经历、临床诊疗经历及其历任中国药典委员会委员、全国政协委员履职经历等方面的真实写照和成果总结。内容主要包括基础理论（中医治则治法）、方药心得（临床应用、正确认知中药不良反应、安全用药、关于粪便类药物的思考、中药注射剂等）、《中国药典》修订建议、建言献策（政协提案、书信建议、述评报道）、杂记（访谈、序评、随笔、诗词）等。本书集周超凡学术之大成，凸显了其在中医基础理论传承与创新方面的成就，有助于推动中医药“传承精华，守正创新”，对于广大中医院校师生、中医药科研人员及中医药爱好者当有一定的启迪。

该书结集文章34篇，时间段为1981—2019年，所载文章系元史研究综述类文章，内容涵盖元史研究领域的方方面面，对建国以来关于海内外关于元史研究领域研究所取得的成绩行了概览式介绍。综述可谓是学术研究中的三次文献，有非常重要的学术价值和现实意义。该书的出版，不仅是一本对从事元史研究的工作者和机构有重要的引领作用，更可以作为一本工具书，为广大爱好元史的读者提供一个迅速了解元史研究情况的途径。

本书对边际主义经济学的发展史行了全面、系统、深人的研究，对边际主义的性质、作用和地位做出了科学的分析与评价，以一种新的顺应历史发展的眼光和实事求是的科学态度，重新认识和评价了边际主义的价值与地位。

本书借鉴现象学与解释学的方法，来讨论海德格尔思想与中国古代天道观的关系，并通过这种讨论去揭示一条领会终极问题的古老而又新鲜的思路。全书主体包括三个部分：海德格尔其人及其道缘、印度与中国古代思想、海德格尔思想与中国天道观的比较。这种中西思想对话迫使我们放弃一切概念型的和现成式的比较研究，而寻求一种更根本的、具有语境和史境构成力的探讨方式；而这恰恰与海德格尔及中国天道观的基本思想相通，也是任何关于终极问题的对话之所以能有意义的关键所在。

该套装包括：《信》《雪国之劫》《魔力的胎动》《梦幻花》《拉普拉斯的魔女》《沉睡的人鱼之家》《白金数据》《危险的维纳斯》 《信》主要内容：一对相依为命的兄弟，因为一桩命案，走上了完全不同的人生……《雪国之劫》主要内容：东野圭吾娱乐悬疑新体验，没人能在读完前停下来！“我要代表地球，惩罚你们这些破坏自然环境的元凶。”一封胡话连篇的恐吓信，竟真的将整个滑雪场卷入了炸弹危机。没人知道犯人真正的目的是什么。 《魔力的胎动》主要内容：《魔力的胎动》是东野圭吾《拉普拉斯的魔女》系列zui新作品，中文简体初次出版。银貂山的谷底发现一具成年男子的尸体，死亡时间是三天前。死者衣服口袋里有驾照，但是联系不到家人。警方终确认，男子是天才钢琴家朝比奈的爱人尾村。平时不爱登山的尾村为何会死在银貂山？为了找出真相，那由多和圆华來到意外发生的地方…… 《梦幻花》主要内容： 错综交织的悬案，揭开百年的谜团年轻夫妇的身体被武士刀贯穿，仅有年幼的女儿生还；一见钟情的初恋女孩，却在几天后人间蒸发…… 《拉普拉斯的魔女》主要内容：东野圭吾：“我想摧毁自己以前写的小说，于是，这部作品就此诞生。”两处温泉地，相继发生硫化氢中毒事件，虽然在教授清江调查后被判定为“不可能人为”，而以意外结案。然而种种疑点和现场出现的神秘少女，令前警察武尾、地球化学教授清江和负责调查事件的中冈始终无法释怀…… 《沉睡的人鱼之家》主要内容：如果推理小说一定要有死亡，这本书所触及的或许就是残忍令人绝望的一种情境。一起事件，一个人的一生因此改变。仿佛跌入蛛网般绝望的挣扎，可这黑暗的尽头在哪里？世界还会有光亮吗？薰子放弃所有，坚持守护的这一切真的像想象的那样吗？ 《白金数据》主要内容：《嫌疑人X的献身》之后，推理天王东野圭吾的烧脑巨献。拥有值得反复思考的深度，远远超越“推理小说”范畴。从一个灵魂到另一个灵魂，是自我救赎，也是对人性的深层读写。 《危险的维纳斯》主要内容：一个陌生女人的电话，一起失踪事件，动物医生手岛伯朗卷入一场正在进行的犯罪事件。没有任何线索，甚至连同伴也不能完全信任。那个隐藏在家人中的凶手到底是谁？

此稿为十三五规划教材《中医眼科学》的教学参考用书，汇集了全国各眼科专业的专家，内容更实用，适合教师、研究生的使用，是学习本课程的重要参考书。

From the author of the bestselling Silent Night comes a close look at the embattled holiday season of 1864, when Major General W. T. Sherman gave President Lincoln the city of Savannah and paved the way for the end of the Civil War. General Sherman's Christmas opens on Thanksgiving Day 1864. Sherman was relentlessly pushing his troops nearly three hundred miles across Georgia in his "March to the Sea," to reach Savannah just days before Christmas. His methodical encroachment of the city from all sides eventually convinced Confederate general W. J. Hardee, who had refused a demand for surrender of his troops, to slip away in darkness across an improvised causeway and escape to South Carolina. In freezing rain and through terrifying fog, equipment-burdened soldiers crossed a hastily built pontoon bridge spanning the mile-wide Savannah River. Three days before Christmas, the mayor, Richard Arnold, surrendered the city, now populated mostly by women, children, and the slaves who had not fled. General Sherman then telegraphed to Abraham Lincoln, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns plenty of ammunition also about 25.000 bales of cotton."The fight for Savannah took place as its inhabitants were anxiously preparing for Christmas. Weintraub explores how Christmas was traditionally fated in the South and what remained of the holiday to celebrate during the waning last full year of the war. Illustrated with striking period prints, General Sherman's Christmas captures the voices of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict, as they neared the end of a long war.

走遍全球著名芭蕾舞蹈劇場，專訪酬的芭蕾舞后Vishneva，點評「當今」的舞蹈員及舞團的演出，配上經典芭蕾現場圖片，使你如臨現場感受芭蕾舞藝術的空靈與曼妙。

藏书家韦力先生以爱书之心，凭一己之力，爬疏历史资料，走访古旧书店，与谈旧书店主，将其所见、所感与所思，集结成这套“芷兰斋书店寻访三部曲”，从私家古旧书店、古旧书市场与国营古旧书店三个不同角度，完整展现了当下中国古旧书业的现状。文章不仅记述了各家书店的创办始末、经营状况和库存菁华，同时还记录了来往与坚守在古旧书业中形形色色的人物及彼此交游之掌故，文字风趣，图片丰富，读来既可拓宽眼界，又可作为“古旧书寻访指南”，按图索骥。

When someone says "slow cooker," do you think of pot roast or chiliNow you can think Slow Cooked Salmon, Caramelized Onion Soup, falling-off-the-bone Lamb You Can Eat with a Spoon, and Flourless Pear Anise Soufflé. If these dishes whet your appetite, it's time to take that slow cooker out of the closet, plug it in, and get ready for Slow Cooker Cooking.Lora Brody knows her appliances. She inspired a whole new generation of bread bakers with her best-selling bread machine books. Here she pushes the slow cooker to places no one ever expected it to go, inventing fruit bases for soufflés and ice creams, reducing milk and sugar to make Dulce de Leche, and infusing oils with herbs. In addition to creating innovative takes on one-pot meals such as classic New England Boiled Dinner, Venison Stew with Mushrooms, and Osso Buco with Gremolata, here you will find recipes for ingredients that are the basis for other dishes, such as Duxelles, Braised Chestnuts, and vegetable and chicken stocks. Vegetarians will enjoy recipes such as Rago?t of Leeks, Fennel, and Celery and Virtuous Lentil Soup, and dessert lovers will rejoice when they see recipes for Hazelnut Chocolate Fondue and Coconut Rice Pudding.Creative cooking in the slow cooker doesn't mean giving up any of the convenience associated with this popular appliance. You still add the ingredients to the pot and go about your day (or evening), letting the slow cooker do all the work.Thanks to the pot's sealed insert and consistently even heat, food cooks under ideal conditions to make it tender and bring out maximum flavor. Come home to a kitchen perfumed with an aroma that promises good things to eat and find a perfectly cooked dish to enjoy.

The brain can heal the body: that's the remarkable truth behind the body's placebo response. As one of the nation's foremost authorities on the mysterious connection between mind and body, Dr. Howard Brody introduces a radical new understanding of this phenomenon -- and how it can be used to foster good health. The body, says Brody, has an "inner pharmacy" that the brain taps into, according to what we anticipate, how we are conditioned by experience, and how we interpret events. Consider the following:In one study, people with allergies showed no response when exposed to the irritant, when they were first convinced it was something. Sham surgery has sometimes produced lasting results, indistinguishable from the results of real operations.Patients recover faster from surgery when they have window views of trees or grass, rather than brick walls.But the placebo response is more than an astonishing medical fact -- it can be put to practical use. The Placebo Response gives you access to a new kind of alternative medicine, one proven by science and found within your own body.

Celebrated trainer and the Today show fitness expert Kathy Kaehler is one of Hollywood's most sought-after fitness trainers. What Kathy has done for Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Drew Barrymore, Cindy Crawford, Alfre Woodard, Samuel L. Jackson, Penelope Ann Miller, and Claire Forlani, among many others, she will do for you. Teenage Fitness is your ultimate fitness source. Her mission is to keep you fit for life. Reflecting on her own body image and eating problems as a teenager, Kathy will show you how to have a healthy respect for your body.She offers essential fitness techniques necessary to look and feel your absolute best. You will learn:To appreciate your own beauty To change your mind-setTo know and accept your body typeNineteen terrific eating tips to get you through your day What kind of eater you areThe 90/10 principle of pigging out Creative Fitness Suburban Fitness Urban FitnessFive-minute and twenty-minute workoutsWith Kathy's straightforward and practical fitness principles, you'll feel terrific about your body, your looks, and your life.

A beloved classic for dog lovers of all ages With a new foreword by Ann PatchettIn the 1930s, Lucy Dawson's friendly, sympathetic portraits of dogs were so popular with readers of American and British magazines that she agreed to gather them together in a book, Dogs As I See Them.The volume you now hold in your hands brings this highly collectible book back in print, replicating the original 1937 edition to a T, including all of Dawson's irresistible graphite and pastel drawings and handwritten notes printed on thick sketchbook paper. Along with Dawson's illustrations are her own amusing stories about the conduct of each of her subjects as they posed for her. Her charming reminiscences interpret the character and mood of each dog, and make us friends at once with each and every one in this gallery of endearing portraits. Dogs As I See Them is a remarkable collection dog lovers of all generations will take to their hearts.With 85 full-color and black-and-white illustrations

With The Pleasure is All Mine, anyone can enjoy a Steak au Poivre with Frites, Three-Cheese Ravioli, Coconut Fish Curry with Homemade Naan Bread, or a Wild Blueberry Free-Form Tart without the expense and hassle of restaurants or fussy dinner guests. The 100 uncomplicated, exquisite recipes in this collection are simple to prepare and require no fancy equipment. With just a skillet, bowl, knife, and a few perfect ingredients, Pirret makes great solo dining effortless-and she offers inspired wine and cocktail pairings, too, to make dinner complete. Edgy and bursting with personality, The Pleasure is All Mine is also filled with a wealth of devilishly entertaining stories based on her experiences living in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and London.

A provocative critique of modern frivolity and a guide to being serious in an unserious age We used to live in a world run by serious people: politicians and religious leaders, writers and artists, journalists and academics, lawyers and business executives, who approached their work with maturity and mindfulness. Today it seems as if most of these figures have all but disappeared, leaving our country and our culture in the hands of amateurs, buffoons, and professional clowns. Yet, according to Lee Siegel, seriousness has been elusive in every age, and every age has its own particular obstacles to living seriously. In a unique combination of fiction, memoir, history, social criticism, satire, and spiritual reflection, Siegel illuminates our contemporary distractions of profit, popularity, and instant pleasure as we search for ways to be serious in culture, in politics, and in everyday life.Are You Seriousis a thoughtful and enlightening exploration of seriousness in all its incarnations, from the heights of intellectual endeavor to the depths of political conflict to how the word itself is used in ordinary situations, from romance to business. Siegel lays bare the forces in modern life that create the silliness all around us, and he describes how seriousness may be attained through the qualities of attention, purpose, and continuity, in satisfying lives forged in bonds of work and love.

In 1919, the Boston Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees to finance a Broadway show. In 1968, NBC turned off the Jets-Raiders game with only seconds left to show the made-for-TV movie Heidi. In 1994, Tonya Harding decided the best way to win Olympic gold was by taking out Nancy Kerrigan's kneecap. In all of these situations, and many, many more, there is just one question fans can ask: What were they thinking?!In these pages, sportswriter and fellow fan Kyle Garlett recounts the top sports blunders that made you tear out your hair, beat your chest in agony, and yell at the TV until your neighbors called the cops. Whether it's boneheaded coaches, idiotic general managers, or temporarily insane players, every fan has seen his team go from the brink of victory to total defeat for no logical reason. Whether it's baseball, football, golf, hockey, or any other sport, you'll discover what really happened during these painful moments and why they ended up the unbelievable way they did.

Thanks to its exquisite pictorial material, this book familiarizes the reader with the logic and golden rules of art. It enables an understanding, on the one hand, of the keys to appreciating the works of the great masters, and on the other, of how to apply these rules to the practice of one's own creative activities.The work begins with a number of basic explanations on how to represent and interrelate the different parts of the human body. The introduction is followed by chapters on the various possibilities for representing male and female nudes, and mythological and biblical figures, dressed and contextualized. Finally it looks at quadruped animals and birds.