How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the s...(展开全部)

With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days of the French, Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion. With ironic delight he recalls his time in the British Secret Service ...(展开全部)

纳尔逊· 古德曼（1906---1998），美国哲学家，著名的分析哲学家、逻辑学家、科学哲学家和美学家，现代唯名论、新实用主义的主要代表之一。古德曼于1941年获得哈佛大学哲学博士学位，先后任美国宾夕法尼亚大学、布兰蒂斯大学和哈佛大学教授；1950---1952年任美国符号逻辑协会副主席，1967年任美国哲学东部分会主席；是美国文理学院院士、大英人文与社会科学全国学院不列颠学院通讯院士。古德曼以其宏博的学识、睿智的思维和天才的洞见成为了20世纪哲学诸多领域的大师级人物。

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty―from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little ...(展开全部)

The sequel to Howl's Moving Castle When Charmain Baker agreed to look after her great-uncle's house, she thought she was getting blissful, parent-free time to read. She didn't realize that the house bent space and time, and she did not expect to become responsible for an extremely magical stray dog and a muddled young apprentice wizard. Now, somehow, she's been targeted b...(展开全部)

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