In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation of mankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', a full-scale reorganization of British society, major reforms of working practice...(展开全部)

From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books , the Atlantic , the New Republic , ...(展开全部)

This new edition of "Leaves of Grass" inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles...(展开全部)

This new edition of "Leaves of Grass" inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". Throughout the text, the explanatory annotations have been revised and expanded. "Whitman on His Art" presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles...(展开全部)

The definitive new translation of Max Weber’s classic work of social theory—arguably the most important book by the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century. Max Weber’s Economy and Society is the foundational text for the social sciences of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, presenting a framework for understanding the relations among individual action, social ...(展开全部)

A.S.尼尔（A.S.Neill ，1883—1973） 20世纪最伟大的教育家之一，誉满全球的夏山学校创始人。 夏山学校创办于1921年。作为现代教育史上最著名的学校，被誉为“最富人性化的快乐学校”、“ 因材施教的典范”， 充满了无穷的活力。尼尔认为：“让学校适应学生，而不是让学生适应学校。”他用60年的时间，在夏山学校实践了这个突破传统教育观念的理想。《窗边的小豆豆》的“巴学园”便是以夏山学校为原型创办的。 1960年本书出版后，迅速在全球掀起持续不断的“夏山热潮”，各个国家、各种肤色的儿童纷纷前往夏山就读。本书仅在美国，10年就销售超过200万册，并被600多所大学指定为教育必读书。目前，本书已经被翻译成越来越多的语言，被越来越多的孩子、家长、专家奉为人类不可缺少的教育经典。

In seventeenth-century England, patriarchalist thinking shaped English ideas not only about the family but also about society and the state. Many thinkers argued that the state should be seen as a family, and that the king held the powers of a father over his subjects. The classic texts of patriarchal political thinking were written by Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), one of the ...(展开全部)

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entitles, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social onto...(展开全部)

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY OF OSCAR WILDE'S LIFE AND WORK HISTORICAL CONTEST OF THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY DE PROFUNDIS THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL NOTES INTERPRETIVE NOTES CRITICAL EXCERPTS QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERESTED READER