'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them', writes Terry Eagleton, who, in these pages, asks the most important question any of us ever ask, and attempts to answer it. So what is the meaning of life? In this witty, spirited, and stimulating inquiry, Eagleton shows how centuries of thinkers - from Shakespeare and Schopenhauer to Marx, Sartre and Beckett - have tackled the question. Refusing to settle for the bland and boring, Eagleton reveals with a mixture of humour and intellectual rigour how the question has become particularly problematic in modern times. Instead of addressing it head-on, we take refuge from the feelings of 'meaninglessness' in our lives by filling them with a multitude of different things: from football and sex, to New Age religions and fundamentalism. 'Many of the readers of this book are likely to be as sceptical of the phrase "the meaning of life" as they are of Santa Claus', he writes. But Eagleton contends that in a world where we need to find common meanings, it is important that we set about answering the question of all questions; and, in conclusion, he suggests his own answer.

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. Beacon Press, the original English-language publisher of Man's Search for Meaning, is issuing this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, biographical Afterword, jacket, price, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers.

生命的意义是什么？这个古老的问题难倒了历史上伟大的思想家。而布拉德里·特雷弗·格里夫用他特有的轻松和激情最终做出了回答：找自己喜欢做的事情，放手去做。 格里夫用有趣的动物照片和睿智的散文语言再一次打动了读者。他思考这样的问题：我们为什么要来到世上，我们的人生目标是什么？他的轻松风格给这个一直存有最大争议的问题提供了一种全新的思路。

《周恩来传》是由外国知名学者迪克·威尔逊撰写的周恩来传记，是周恩来传记中最全面、生动和畅销的版本之一。《周恩来传》作者自1960年第一次与周恩来见面后，便开始收集该书的写作材料，其中包括周恩来的同事们的广泛回忆及国内外可供查寻的文献资料。他以详实权威的资料为基础，再现了周恩来具有传奇性的一生，分析了他的性格、气质和他的工作作风，以及他给新中国成立和发展带来的巨大影响，是一部全面、深刻又不失独特见解的著作。

从21岁至今，历经三十余年轮椅生涯，史铁生成了一位睿智的作家和思想者。本书是凝结了史铁生近两年来所思所想的二十余篇随笔集。书中还收录了史铁生的十几首诗作。 书中，花钱的事、看不见而信、理想的危险、乐观的根据……史铁生通过洁净文字，铺陈着自己对人生、社会、命运、价值观、世界观的思考。作家陈村曾言，自己喜欢史铁生作品的“最大理由”是，“他的想法和文字明净，不曾神神鬼鬼牵丝攀藤。他的手总是温暖的，宽厚的。他是能超越智和愚的。他不做状，而是常常省察自己的内心。他把自己看轻了，才能去爱自己，爱世界。”