Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean. This book focuses on the years 700 to 1500, a period when powerful dynasties governed both regions, to document the relationship between the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the arrival of the Europeans. Through a close analysis of the maps, geographic accounts, and travelogues compiled by both Chinese and Islamic writers, the book traces the development of major contacts between people in China and the Islamic world and explores their interactions on matters as varied as diplomacy, commerce, mutual understanding, world geography, navigation, shipbuilding, and scientific exploration. When the Mongols ruled both China and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, their geographic understanding of each other's society increased markedly. This rich, engaging, and pioneering study offers glimpses into the worlds of Asian geographers and mapmakers, whose accumulated wisdom underpinned the celebrated voyages of European explorers like Vasco da Gama.

"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins Herman Wouk's trenchant and exhilarating book on navigating the divide between science and religion.
Told by Feynman in that first meeting that he must learn "the language God talks"-calculus-Wouk set in motion the lifelong inquiry that has culminated in this rich, compact volume. Wouk draws on stories from his own life, on key events from the twentieth century, and on encounters not just with Feynman but with other masters of science and religion to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what purpose faith serves, and how scientific facts fit into the picture.

This Is My God is Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism completely updated and revised with a new chapter, Israel at Forty. A miracle of brevity, it guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion with all the power, clarity and wit of Wouk's celebrated novels.

本书为菲利普·内莫《古典与中世纪政治思想史》的第三卷。作者系法国当代著名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师，现为巴黎高等商学院一欧洲管理学院的教授兼巴黎高等商学院经济哲学研究中心的负责人。1998年，《古典与中世纪政治思想史》作为“基础丛书”的分册出版。此后，本书与该丛书中2002年出版的《现当代政治思想史》组合为“战车（Quadrige）丛书”。自此以后，“政治观念史教程”便成为法国各个大学、研究机构经典的教学用书。 本书首先详尽地论述了居住于古代近东地区的希伯来人的历史，以及包含在他们的古代经典中的政治思想。作者认为希伯来人的古代经典中的政治思想迥异于古代希腊、罗马人的政治思想，由于经历了中世纪，来自“耶路撒冷”的新的道德因素与来自雅典和罗马的公民遗产终于真正融合在一起；于是欧洲致力于科学及社会进步的现代才有可能取得长足进步，并以自由民主制为典范组织起来，国家的权力受到限定与限制。本书最值得瞩目之处在于作者对《圣经》中所包含的政治思想的详细、深入而准确的论述。

The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road in 1972 marked the birth of the 'new military history', which emphasized military organization - mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics - rather than military 'events' such as sieges and battles. Geoffrey Parker studied one of the great logistical feats of early modern Europe: how Habsburg Spain managed to maintain and mobilize the largest army in Europe in an 80-year effort to suppress the Dutch Revolt, at 700 miles' distance. Using a unique combination of surviving records, he presented strikingly the logistical problems of fighting wars in early modern Europe, and demonstrated why Spain failed to suppress the Dutch Revolt. The book has been constantly cited since its first publication in English (with translations into Spanish and Dutch). This revised second edition includes some new sources and updates some references but otherwise remains faithful to the original version.

If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science--explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity--then "the really hard problem," writes Owen Flanagan in this provocative book, is explaining how meaning is possible in the material world. How can we make sense of the magic and mystery of life naturalistically, without an appeal to the supernatural? How do we say truthful and enchanting things about being human if we accept the fact that we are finite material beings living in a material world, or, in Flanagan's description, short-lived pieces of organized cells and tissue? Flanagan's answer is both naturalistic and enchanting. We all wish to live in a meaningful way, to live a life that really matters, to flourish, to achieve eudaimonia--to be a "happy spirit." Flanagan calls his "empirical-normative" inquiry into the nature, causes, and conditions of human flourishing eudaimonics. Eudaimonics, systematic philosophical investigation that is continuous with science, is the naturalist's response to those who say that science has robbed the world of the meaning that fantastical, wishful stories once provided. Flanagan draws on philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and psychology, as well as on transformative mindfulness and self-cultivation practices that come from such nontheistic spiritual traditions as Buddhism, Confucianism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism, in his quest. He gathers from these disciplines knowledge that will help us understand the nature, causes, and constituents of well-being and advance human flourishing. Eudaimonics can help us find out how to make a difference, how to contribute to the accumulation of good effects--how to live a meaningful life.

《超越东西方》一书为吴经熊用英文撰写，于1951年在夏威夷完稿，在纽约初版，此后先后被译为法文、葡萄牙文、荷兰文、德文、韩文出版。这是他的自传体著作，书中以一种灵性自白的笔触描述了其人生经历、及其宗教皈依的心路历程。其思绪浪漫任运，题材涉猎广泛，文笔优美典雅，多有惊人之见和神来之笔，堪称中国现代基督宗教灵修文学之杰作。吴经熊以一种信仰的虔诚叙述了其对基督宗教的体验、见证，同时亦以一种比较的视域论及其对儒、佛、道三教和中国传统文化、以及中国精神之真谛精髓的体会、见解。在他看来，“中国人是按照儒家学说为人处世的，同时得到了道家去世思想的平衡，但在他们内在的生活里他们追随的却是佛教思想。”在此，儒家思想的本质乃论及伦理关系，道家思想关涉不可言喻、神秘莫测的终极实在，而佛教则以其“在片刻活出永恒”的禅悟来让人达到从此岸到彼岸、从缘起界到绝对界、从时间到永恒、从现象到实在的“过渡”。他认为，中国精神的最基本特征，“是抽象与具体、普遍与个别、最世俗与最脱俗、超越的理想主义与讲实际的实用主义的结合。”其实，吴经熊在这里已体悟到中华民族追求和谐的文化精神。可以说，儒家之道德哲学是以伦理学之途来追求众生的和谐，着眼于社会人生；道家之自然哲学是以生理学之途来追求自然的和谐，着眼于自然万物；而佛教之精神哲学则是以心理学之途来追求宇宙的和谐，着眼于内心反思。这些追求在中国文化中殊途同归，共构其追求和谐的文化精神。而吴经熊则引入了基督宗教信仰体系和西方文化精神传统的参照，旨在达到对东方、西方的超越。其以娴熟的西文来流畅阐述中国思想，本身更是体现出一种中西合璧、天衣无缝的和谐境界。

The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems consciously developed over generations and centuries. Harold J. Berman describes the main features of these systems of law, including the canon law of the church, the royal law of the major kingdoms, the urban law of the newly emerging cities, feudal law, manorial law, and mercantile law. In the coexistence and competition of these systems he finds an important source of the Western belief in the supremacy of law. Written simply and dramatically, carrying a wealth of detail for the scholar but also a fascinating story for the layman, the book grapples with wideranging questions of our heritage and our future. One of its main themes is the interaction between the Western belief in legal evolution and the periodic outbreak of apocalyptic revolutionary upheavals. Berman challenges conventional nationalist approaches to legal history, which have neglected the common foundations of all Western legal systems. He also questions conventional social theory, which has paid insufficient attention to the origin of modem Western legal systems and has therefore misjudged the nature of the crisis of the legal tradition in the twentieth century.

《基督教佛教兴起对欧亚地区竞争力的影响》是张文木继《中国地缘政治论》和《印度与印度洋》之后的又一本新书。天下所有能成为“问题”的宗教多不关乎学理而是关乎政治。黑格尔说“国家不是艺术品”，这就是说，国家并不是用来欣赏和把玩的思辨理趣，而是被用来保障人民生死存亡的公器。如果不涉及国家权力，仅作为文化权利存在的宗教在任何国家都不会成为“问题”。历史经验表明，宗教问鼎国家权力或试图在国家之外另立政治中心，其政治后果都会危及国家的长治久安和人民的福祉；严重的话，还会造成国家和地区长时段的大分裂和大动乱。汉代哲学家董仲舒说：“患，人之中不一者也。”用通俗些的话表述就是：一个中心曰“忠”，两个中心曰“患”。这个思想贯穿《基督教佛教兴起对欧亚地区竞争力的影响》，是理解全书主题的红线。

Trickster Travels (2006) views Italy, Spain, Morocco and other parts of North Africa and West Africa through the lens of Leo Africanus's pioneering geography. It has appeared in four translations, with three more on the way.In Trickster Travels (2006), she describes how the early 16th-century North African Muslim "Leo Africanus" (Hasan al-Wazzan) managed to live as a Christian in Italy after he was kidnapped by Christian pirates and also sees his writings as an example of “the possibility of communication and curiosity in a world divided by violence.”

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it’s all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that’s just the beginning.

In the forty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics—from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality—in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It’s a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice, and it is now available to a new generation of seekers in this fortieth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Shunryu Suzuki’s biographer, David Chadwick.

The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Tuetonic Knights and the Knights of the Spanish and Portuguese orders were 'noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross'. These military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's storm troopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, now devoted to charitable works. "The Monks of War" is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century. Writing in "The Times Literary Supplement", Professor David Knowles described it as, 'Undeniably the work of someone who knows and accepts the standards of critical history, but ...who sees the past also as an epic or a colourful spectacle'.

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment is a 2017 book by journalist and evolutionary psychologist Robert Wright. As of August 2017, the book had peaked at The New York Times No. 4 bestseller in hardcover nonfiction.
In Why Buddhism is True, Wright advocates a secular, Westernized form of Buddhism focusing on the practice of mindfulness meditation and stripped of supernatural beliefs such as reincarnation. He further argues that more widespread practice of meditation could lead to a more reflective and empathetic population and reduce political tribalism. In line with his background, Wright draws heavily on evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology to defend the correctness of Buddhism's diagnosis of the causes of human suffering. He argues the modern psychological idea of the modularity of mind resonates with the Buddhist teaching of no-self (anatman).