Irvine: 294 books

En estas páginas puedes disfrutar de una cena de Navidad con el temible Begbie de Trainspotting y ver cómo reacciona ante el novio de su hermana y el anuncio de su compromiso. También descubrirás que alienígenas adictos a los cigarrillos Embassy Regal tienen el plan de colocar a algunos de sus...

［牛津大學出版社最暢銷的人生哲學書］ 歐巴馬、柯林頓、密特朗、梭羅、叔本華 都歎服的生命智慧 ◆ 「盲目的樂觀，只會使人感覺膚淺；過度的悲觀，則會使人走向毀滅。唯有悲觀後的樂觀，才是精神上的強者！」 ──尼采 ◆ ◤活在這世上，你需要「實用的悲觀主義」◢ 換湯不換藥的心靈方法→廉價的勵志泡沫→失控的正向思考→惶惑的下流老人 錯誤的人生目標╳不切實際的期待 將讓你虛度人生 ▼想太多也沒關係，你的悲觀也有意義， 斯多噶哲學教你善用悲觀的正面力量 兩千多年前，斯多噶哲學家運用悲觀思考的正面力量， 意外發現了解決人生困境的心理技巧。 藉由實踐斯多噶哲學的極簡心法，當你在人生路上遇到生命十大考驗： 羞辱、憤怒、悲傷、欲望、名利、人際關係、衰老、死亡……時， 便能夠以退為進，化解心中看不開的傷、跨不過的坎， 用「消極想像」積極消解填不滿的欲望， 用「幽默自嘲」輕巧穿越羞辱與憤怒， 用「宿命論」戰勝生命的悲苦與眼淚， 剔除過度的欲望及有毒的情緒，實踐素樸的極簡生活， 發現生命真正有價值的事物，學會保持心靈平靜的大智慧。 ▼斯多噶哲學五大心理技巧 ──用悲觀的力量找回快樂的能力 【心法①】消極想像大滿足：想像最壞的結果，學會渴望早已擁有的事物，生活甜美度加倍 【心法②】控制二分心自在：將事物分成能控制與不能控制的，讓愛控制的心學會斷捨離 【心法③】活在當下大智慧：「過去」和「現在」的宿命論，教你擺脫不滿足，學會享受現有的生活 【心法④】鍛鍊意志反快樂：定期自找麻煩，延遲享受，培養自控力，快樂便操之在我 【心法⑤】反躬自省的實踐：定期反省日常生活中的事件，像《沉思錄》那樣認真過生活 ▼知足：快樂的極簡主義 ──從簡單事物中獲得快樂的能力，決定你享受生活、解決困難的能力 今日我們面臨更多的焦慮、誘惑、競爭，也與古羅馬人面臨同樣的羞辱、悲傷、衰老， 但我們仍舊束手無策，飽受各種負面情緒所苦。 斯多噶哲學發現，痛苦的元凶就是人類「貪得無厭」「習慣控制結果」的兩大天性， 讓我們不知不覺喪失了享受簡單事物的能力，而嚴重耗損了享受生活、感受快樂的能力。 原來，快樂跟控制欲也要極簡：節制、知足，反而更快樂；遇到困境時也能快速調適，不陷入痛苦。 掌握斯多噶哲學的五大極簡心法，將幫助你恢復快樂的嗅覺， 在物質與心靈上同時實踐一種素樸的極簡生活，讓你越活越幸福。 ▼生命的難關，斯多噶哲學都有解 ──早在兩千年前就為現代人調製的哲學藥方 本書詳細闡述斯多噶哲學家經典格言中的生命智慧， 從食衣住行各方面提供讀者如何擁有美好生活的忠告， 作者還整理出斯多噶哲學十大生活實踐處方， 教你按部就班學會兩千年前的古羅馬生活智慧，你將： 從羅馬皇帝馬可‧奧里略身上學會取捨 從愛比克泰德身上學會從有限的生活中獲得更大的滿足 減低焦慮，釋懷過去，將心力聚焦在生命中能夠控制的事物上 妥善處理羞辱、悲傷、衰老，坦然面對名聲與財富的誘惑等十大生命困境 徹底治癒對生活無休無止的不滿足，讓內心恢復從容和平靜 成為自己生命的觀察者，找到焦慮的源頭，避免種種痛苦，自主創造幸福人生 ▼斯多噶哲學特色 ①...

Formed in the 1960s, progressive rock band Procol Harum are best known for their multimillion-selling single "A Whiter Shade of Pale" which is the most played record by a British artist of the last 70 years.This book features exclusive interviews with band members as well as with Led Zeppelin's...

The post-apocalyptic Dungeons & Dragons setting's first-ever comic! Beneath a crimson sun lie wastelands of majestic desolation and cities of cruel splendor, where life hangs by a thread. Welcome to Athas! When an imprisoned gladiator named Grudvik escapes the city of Tyr, a part-time slave hunter and...

The Murder of King Tut adapts best-selling author James Pattersons NY Times Bestselling novel in this exciting new series. As we visit the Egyptian landscapes back in the time of the Boy King (with art by Christopher Mitten), we also follow the trials and tribulations of his discoverer, Howard Carter,...

Because I am a girl I am less likely to go to school Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer from malnutrition Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the home Because I am a girl I am more likely to marry and start a family before I reach my twenties. Seven...

Sam and Dean Winchester know all the secrets their father recorded in his journal. Now you can, too. On November 2, 1983, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force. In the wake of the tragedy, their father, John, set out to learn everything he could about the...

THE OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE MOST EAGERLY AWAITED GAME OF 2015 -- BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT! The Joker's death has left a void in the Gotham City underworld--a void the Riddler seeks to fill in the deadliest way possible. Creating a path of death and destruction, the criminal mastermind places Batman...

Twenty-three years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force. Following the tragedy, their father, John, set out to teach his boys everything about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America . . . and how to kill it. Fans...

The official novelization of the upcoming sci-fi blockbuster Pacific Rim from visionary director Guillermo del Toro! When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on...

“I am Ichabod Crane, born in the year 1747. It seems this is the year 2013 Anno Domini, and I have been given new life—how, I know not; why, I know not. I will discern the truth—if, that is, I can keep my head.”   In "Sleepy Hollow," a supernatural twist on Washington Irving's classic...

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

Hybrid fighters merging human and alien technology. Massive cannon emplacements on the Moon and Mars. A planetary defense force with the finest military personnel ever trained. For two decades we’ve known the enemy would return. The nations of Earth have collaborated on a unified defense...

The official novelization to the upcoming Pacific Rim Uprising movie, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro's critically acclaimed Pacific Rim It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program...