Strokes of Luck provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the role of luck in moral and political philosophy. The first part tackles debates in moral luck, which are concerned with the assignment of blameworthiness to individuals who are separated only by lucky differences. 'Anti-luckists' think that one who, for example, attempts and succeeds in an assassination and ...(展开全部)

Cash is needed and Alex Rogo's companies are to be put on the block. Alex needs to complete the turnaround of his companies if they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. This text highlights the techniques needed to survive at home and at work.

Cash is needed and Alex Rogo's companies are to be put on the block. Alex needs to complete the turnaround of his companies if they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. This text highlights the techniques needed to survive at home and at work.

A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both bro...(展开全部)

A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both bro...(展开全部)

La novella Ton temps hors d’atteinte offre à la lecture une surprenante histoire d’amour, envisagée sur une temporalité longue, de l’enfance jusqu’à l’âge adulte. Écrite de façon originale par un « moi » (la narratrice) s’adressant à un « tu » (l’être aimé), elle raconte l’histoire de deux êtres aussi différents entre eux qu’ils le sont de ceux qui les entourent, en jouant en p...(展开全部)

Quand éclate la guerre d’Algérie, Bachir, un jeune médecin, rejoint la résistance aux côtés de son frère Ali. Acculés dans leurs derniers retranchements, hommes et femmes perdent tous les masques dont la vie sociale nous affuble, et dévoilent la lâcheté et l’héroïsme, les vices et les vertus, le jeu et l’amour, le rêve et la cupidité, la ruse et la sincérité.

La novella Ton temps hors d’atteinte offre à la lecture une surprenante histoire d’amour, envisagée sur une temporalité longue, de l’enfance jusqu’à l’âge adulte. Écrite de façon originale par un « moi » (la narratrice) s’adressant à un « tu » (l’être aimé), elle raconte l’histoire de deux êtres aussi différents entre eux qu’ils le sont de ceux qui les entourent, en jouant en p...(展开全部)

Do Lost in the art--the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French Poet Clement Marot. "Le ton beau de Marot" literally means "The sweet tone of Marot", but to a Frenc...(展开全部)