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.

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.

本书是近年来难得一见的优秀的家庭教育原创作品，是教育专家尹建莉的教子手记，是一本还未上市就以“手抄本”流传的图书。
相比许多家教图书，这本书有以下特点：
第一，本书首次提出一些令人耳目一新的家庭教育原则，使父母在教育孩子的时候有章可循。
第二，书中给出许多简单而又实用的操作办法，理论和实践完美结合。使父母们不仅立刻获得许多有效的经验，教育意识也随之改善。它是实事求是谈家教的典范，是家长们最实用的工具书。
第三，本书不但告诉你怎么能提高孩子成绩，而且告诉你怎么教孩子做人，教你怎么培养一个自觉、自强、自立的孩子。

"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.

This critical edition features an appendix that makes available for the first time the core of the research project that spawned the book and individual chapter notes are supported by a glossary of terms, indices of subjects, names, and works cited. There is also a complete bibliography of McLuhan's published works.

"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.

Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized plasticity,the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings.Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization that both conditions and is conditioned by human experience. Looking carefully at contemporary neuroscience, it is hard not to notice that the new way of talking about the brain mirrors the management discourse of the neo-liberal capitalist world in which we now live, with its talk of decentralization, networks, and flexibility. Consciously or unconsciously, science cannot but echo the world in which it takes place.In the neo-liberal world, plasticitycan be equated with flexibility-a term that has become a buzzword in economics and management theory. The plastic brain would thus represent just another style of power, which, although less centralized, is still a means of control. In this book, Catherine Malabou develops a second, more radical meaning for plasticity. Not only does plasticity allow our brains to adapt to existing circumstances, it opens a margin of freedom to intervene, to change those very circumstances. Such an understanding opens up a newly transformative aspect of the neurosciences.In insisting on this proximity between the neurosciences and the social sciences, Malabou applies to the brain Marx's well-known phrase about history: people make their own brains, but they do not know it. This book is a summons to such knowledge.

《梦书》是意大利电影导演费里尼从20世纪60年代末到1990年8月期间的梦境日记。伟大的导演毫无保留地将他的梦境，甚至夜间的梦魇和盘托出，用绘画或他自己说的“小标小记、匆忙潦草的手写记录和不合语法的句子”来诠释他的梦。内容荒诞离奇、百无禁忌，全面暴露造梦大师的梦境人生和隐秘思想。这也是费里尼亲自执笔的唯一图书作品。
这是一个天才在其广阔无垠的幻想世界中经历的色彩斑斓的旅程；这是一名电影工作者为其创意灵感之源打下的坚实木桩。这本独一无二的书，由已故导演最亲密的朋友和专业人士图利奥·凯兹奇（Tullio Kezich）撰写导语，文森佐·莫利卡（Vincenzo Mollica）做注释，并由里米尼市的费里尼基金会促成出版。
◆ 太吸引人了！《梦书》就像是导演遗留给世人的最佳电影底片。它是一部大师神秘环球旅行的指引书、一座浩瀚的宝库，蕴藏了各种超现实的假设、无法实现的幻想和先知预言。
——图利奥·凯兹奇
◆ 费里尼是这般做梦的，如此的情感泛滥、妙不可言、惹人遐思、纵情享乐，甚至是极度绝望。如今这些梦终于从深锁重重的银行地库中重见天日了……这本书非常棒，我认为它就是一部讥讽版的《神曲》。
——安东尼奥·多利科，《晚邮报》
◆ 20世纪最伟大的导演之一，不可思议的内心世界全记录。
——《艺术新闻》
◆ 梦占据了舞台的中央……梦足以让拥有最深沉睡眠的人也想记住发生在夜晚的一切。
——《高谈》
◆ 人们通常认为他人的梦是无聊的。费里尼的梦荒诞奇谲，混合了太多内容，打破了这种老生常谈。和他的电影一样，费里尼的梦是异想天开的，尖锐刺激的，怪诞滑稽的，也是富有启示意义的。
——《好莱坞生活》
◆ 这本有趣的书表明，潜意识决定了艺术家的创作意识。
——《哨兵日报》

《红书》拉丁文书名为《新书》（Liber Novus）。约创作于1914年到1930年间，记录了作者个人的梦境、灵魔与精神追寻历程。荣格生前拒绝出版，直到其去世后近五十年，此书方得见天日。
1913年，荣格与弗洛伊德决裂，开始发展自己的理论体系，一度备受幻觉折磨而濒于崩溃。荣格身陷中年危机，重新审视生活，从内心探索最深处的自我。他将一些梦和幻象记录下来，整理成《黑书》，同时着手幻象内容的写作，形成私密之作《红书》。《红书》是荣格日后写作的主要灵感，由此生发出一整套的分析心理学理论。此书的出版为我们开启了一扇理解荣格著作的窗口。
荣格曾于1957年谈到这本书：“我跟你谈到过那段岁月，追寻内心图像的那些年是我此生最重要的时光。其他一切皆发源于此。这本书就始于那时，在那之后的枝枝节节几乎无关紧要。我的一生都在阐释那些意象，它们从潜意识中迸发，像一条深不可测的河流，在我的内心泛滥，几乎要毁灭我。这些已超出我的一生所能承载。后来只是一些外在的现象、科学的阐述与生活的融合，而包孕一切的神奇开端就在那时候。”
中文版卷一、卷二根据德文版翻译，审视与附录根据英文版整理翻译。彩图版图文并茂，全彩印刷，完整呈现原作风貌。

"The memoir of a neuroscientist whose research led him to a bizarre personal discovery"

James Fallon had spent an entire career studying how our brains affect our behavior when his research suddenly turned personal. While studying brain scans of several family members, he discovered that one perfectly matched a pattern he d found in the brains of serial killers. This meant one of two things: Either his family s scans had been mixed up with those of felons or someone in his family was a psychopath.

Even more disturbing: The scan in question was his own.

This is Fallon s account of coming to grips with this discovery and its implications. How could he, a happy family man who had never been prone to violence, be a psychopath? How much did his biology influence his behavior?

Fallon shares his journey to answer these questions and the discoveries that ultimately led to his conclusion: Despite everything science can teach, humans are even more complex than we can imagine."

One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud, Karen Horney pioneered such now-familiar concepts as alienation, self-realization, and the idealized image, and she brought to psychoanalysis a new understanding of the importance of culture and environment. Karen Horney was born in Hamburg in 1885 and was educated in Berlin. She went to the United States in 1932 and in 1941 became one of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. In "Our Inner Conflicts", now reissued in a new format, Horney develops a dynamic theory of neurosis centred on the basic conflict among the attitudes of moving towards, moving against, and moving away from people.

“Anyone whose life needs a course correction would be fortunate to be guided by The Wisdom of Insecurity . My life still is, some thirty years later." —Deepak Chopra, from the Introduction
Alan W. Watts’s “message for an age of anxiety” is as powerful today as it waswhen this modern classic was first published.
We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the future; too much time lamenting the past. We often miss the pleasures of the moment in our anxious efforts to ensure the next moment is as enjoyable. Drawing from Eastern philosophy and religion, Watts argues that it is only by acknowledging what we do not and cannot know, that we can find something truly worth knowing. In order to lead a fulfilling life, one must embrace the present—live fully in the now.
Elegantly reasoned and lucidly written, this philosophical achievement contains all the wisdom and spirit that distinguished Watts’s long career and resonates with us still.

本书为“思想与社会研究系列”之一，对自杀行为作了深入的研究。全书共分古典德性的极限追求、上帝面前的神性和罪性、现代自杀问题的诞生等三个部分。本书内容丰富，分析透彻，具有很高的学术价值。　　这本书并不是一本严格的历史或思想史的梳理。近些年来，对西方自杀历史的研究已经相当丰富。本书所要达到的目的，并不是将欧美学界的这些成果介绍到中国来，也不是全面勾画出自杀思考的哲学史。就本书叙述的时段而言，很多惊心动魂的讨论还根本没有开场。本书所触及的时段，有很多自杀问题相关的人与事，作者也并未谈及。这本书所要做的，是选取古典、中世纪、英国现代早期这三个时段，看其中的人们对同一个问题的不同思考和处理方式，由此勾勒出他们对待美好生活、人性善恶，以及政治建构的相互勾连但又非常不同的思想脉络。

2002年，中国的高自杀率向全世界披露，从此自杀成为一个被广泛关注的社会问题，本书意在透视自杀问题，以反思中国文化中的生命观以及当代中国的文化处境。作者通过梳理西方自杀思想的传统，理解当代自杀学背后的文化假设；要理解中国的自杀问题，不能靠搬用那些自杀学理论，而要寻找中国文化中的相应观念。要解决自杀问题，也不能仅仅铆在自杀这一个现象上，而要通过它来反观更重要的思想文化问题。由此，我们可以理解现代中国的处境和问题，并慢慢找到应对现代性的中国方式。

In this wide-ranging third installment of Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how people and social phenomena work, the New Yorker journalist takes a close look at what constitutes high levels of success. That is, what makes people at the top of their respective fields get there? As we've come to expect from Gladwell's previous books, the answer to the question is a bit complicated.
He says that upbringing, culture and even random luck have something to with success, but there is another important quality that anyone can control. Two chapters are dedicated to the "revelation" that IQ is only a baseline quality and success has little to nothing to do with having a high IQ or a low IQ. Rather, success is substantially a product of cultivating a high degree of what Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence" or what most refer to as "emotional intelligence."
Gladwell uses the example of Nobel laureates coming from unknown schools as often as ivy league schools. At this level of mastery IQ is no longer a factor. Success has little to do with where you were educated and everything to do with your level of practical/emotional intelligence and willingness to put in the 10,000 hours of practice required to reach mastery of your field.
All in all, it's an interesting read that isn't too heady and goes by pretty quickly, as the interesting anecdotes are what you would expect from Gladwell.

Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life.
In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene , Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
This 30th anniversary edition of Dawkins' fascinating book retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters added in the second edition. In a new Introduction the author presents his thoughts thirty years after the publication of his first and most famous book, while the inclusion of the two-page original Foreword by brilliant American scientist Robert Trivers shows the enthusiastic reaction of the scientific community at that time. This edition is a celebration of a remarkable exposition of evolutionary thought, a work that has been widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, and that continues to stimulate whole new areas of research today.