HIGH-WATER MARKWhen the tide was out on the Dedlow Marsh, its extended drearinesswas patent. Its spongy, low-lying surface, sluggish, inky pools,and tortuous sloughs, twisting their slimy way, eel-like, towardthe open bay, were all hard facts. So were the few green tussocks,with their scant blades, their amphibious flavor and unpleasantdampness. And if you choose to indulge your fancyalthough theflat monotony of the Dedlow Marsh was not inspiringthe wavy line...
卿希泰道教文化是中华传统文化的重要组成部分,而道教科技则是道教文化中的瑰宝。道教科技在中国科技史上占有极为重要的地位,对中国传统科技发展曾有过积极的推动作用。英国学者李约瑟博士在其所著《中国科学技术史》第二卷《科学思想史》中,对此有很长的一段评述:“道家哲学虽然含有政治集体主义、宗教神秘主义以及个人修炼成仙的各种因素,但它却发展了科学态度的许多最重要的特点,因而对中国科学史是有着头等重要性的。此外,道家又根据他们的原理而行动,由此之故,东亚的化学、矿物学、植物学和药物学都起源于道家,他们同希腊的前苏格拉底的和伊壁鸠鲁派的科学哲学家有很多相似之处。……道家深刻地意识到变化和转化的普遍性,这是他们最深刻的科学洞见之一。”在这段文字中,李约瑟所谓的道家显然是包括道教在内的,其所强调的在中国科技史上具有重大意义的道家道教科学哲学,也是道教内部能够产生丰富的科技成就的...
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1by Christopher MarloweThis is Part 1EDITED BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from a Scythian Shepheardeby his rare and woonderfull Conquests, became a mostpuissant and mightye Monarque. And (for his tyranny,and terrour in Warre) was tearmed, The Scourge of God.Deuided into two Tragicall Discourses, as they weresundrie times shewed vpon Stages in the Citie of London....
就在国内企业纷纷引进西方管理培训课程的时候,有一位叫剑歌的讲师却剑走偏锋,创立了颇具东方文化色彩的职场养生理论。他认为传统的西方企业管理理念过于偏狭,往往只重眼前绩效,不看长远利益,很容易把员工压迫在紧张、忙碌而又缺乏快乐的环境之下,从而导致绩效水分和财富泡沫的大量出现。为此,他提出了一个新的观点:真正卓越的企业和真正出色的员工应该追求绿色绩效。他开设的《职业生涯中的养生计划》培训课程一经推出,便掀起了一阵强烈的旋风,直把那些西方企业管理理论的泊来品吹得东摇西晃。 依照剑歌的职场养生理论,身体绩效+工作绩效=绿色绩效。在这样的价值评测体系中,衡量职业成功与否的传统标志将被颠覆,一个身家上亿的企业老板可能还不如一个打工者更加成功,因为前者所创造的绩效中含有很多的水分和泡沫,而且其健康指标很可能也远远不如后者。...
总 序内容简介紫玉轩的女人民国时期,北京的一处豪门大宅——紫玉轩中,七个女人的命运因为一张照片而连在了一起。雍容华贵、美艳脱俗的女主人,勇于追求真爱的贵英,坚毅刚强的团座夫人,追求真爱、义无反顾的千金小姐……一个个跳动的身影,让人目眩。故事中充满了豪门贵族的爱恨情仇、情欲纠葛,异国的人文风情、浪漫情怀,以及女性特有的柔情似水。在炮火纷飞、硝烟弥漫的大时代里,她们各自涂抹着自己的色彩,演绎着一段段精彩的人生。总 序作者简介作者介绍吴力励,作家、翻译家。所译简奥斯汀《理智与情感》被国内文学爱好者引为经典。和林语堂先生一样,她也用英文写作,擅长从女性视角探讨女性的内心,其作品《云天阁的女人》中文版在国内出版后,引起巨大轰动。她一直在用女性的细腻和温婉创作着,字里行间散发着古典主义的温润光芒。...
日子轻快一如沙漠中的夜风,瞬间已是千里,不过是一次受伤后的休息,草原上的草儿已经枯萎了三次,胡杨林的叶子黄了三次。三年多时间,一千多个日日夜夜,随着狼群,从漠北流浪到漠南,又从漠南回到漠北。打闹嬉戏中,我似乎从未离开过狼群,与阿爹在一起的六年似乎已湮没在黄沙下,可惜……只是似乎。沉沉黑夜,万籁俱静。篝火旁,我和狼兄一坐一卧,他已酣睡,我却无半丝睡意。白日我再次看到匈奴军队,三年中的第一次,措手不及间隆隆马蹄声惊醒了尘封多年的过去。九年前,西域。一个人躺在沙漠中,我盯着他的眼睛,他也盯着我。有蜥蜴从他脸上爬过,他一动不动。我好奇地用爪子轻拍了拍他的脸颊,他依旧没有动,但微不可见地扯了下嘴角,好像在笑。...
柏杨先生近照柏杨先生近照(2)柏杨先生近照柏杨先生近照(3)柏杨先生近照柏杨先生近照(4)柏杨先生近照柏杨先生近照(5)柏杨先生近照柏杨先生近照(6)柏杨先生近照柏杨先生近照(7)柏杨先生近照柏杨先生近照(8)柏杨先生近照柏杨先生近照(9)第一部分处女问题处女是神圣的,因为处女差不多都很纯洁,所以古时候杀人献祭,从没有听说把一个老头弄去宰掉,而都是要一个美貌处女。《西游记》上通天河之祭,真是一个大场面,陈家庄每年要向妖怪献上一对童男童女。童者,处也。童男童女,就是处男处女。柏杨先生在历史书上考查,处男的用处甚少,除了送到通天河被妖怪一口吞之外,别无其他意义。而处女所代表的道理却大而且巨,通天河之祭,还有一位处男陪伴,若西门豹先生漳水之祭,则只有处女而没有处男,可见处男没有处女值钱也。从前有些地方的风俗,新婚之夜,娘家人在客厅中正襟危坐,以听消息,洞房中传出说新娘固处女也...
Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)by Alexandre Dumas, filsChapter IIn my opinion, it is impossible to create characters until one has spent a long time in studying men, as it is impossible to speak a language until it has been seriously acquired. Not being old enough to invent, I content myself with narrating, and I beg the reader to assure himself of the truth of a story in which all the characters, with the exception of the heroine, are still alive. Eye-witnesses of the greater part of the facts
Addressesby Henry DrummondIntroductoryI was staying with a party of friends in a country house during myvisit to England in 1884. On Sunday evening as we sat around thefire, they asked me to read and expound some portion of Scripture.Being tired after the services of the day, I told them to ask HenryDrummond, who was one of the party. After some urging he drew asmall Testament from his hip pocket, opened it at the 13th chapter...
THE SPIRIT OF THE BORDERA ROMANCE OF THE EARLY SETTLERS IN THE OHIO VALLEYBY ZANE GREY1906To my brotherWith many fond recollections of days spent in the solitude of the forestswhere only can be satisfied that wild fever of freedom of which this booktells; where to hear the whirr of a wild duck in his rapid flight is joy;where the quiet of an autumn afternoon swells the heart, and where one maywatch the fragrant wood-smoke curl from the campfire, and see the starspeep...