Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond Geuss challenges this assumpti...(展开全部)

What if Islam never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. But what if that weren't the case at all? In A WORLD WITHOUT ISLAM, Graham E. Fuller guides us along an illuminating journey through history, geopolitics, and religion to investigate whether or not Islam is indeed the cause of some of today's most emotional ...(展开全部)

迪内希·德·索萨（Dinesh D'Souza） 美国国际问题500 位权威领袖之一 美国最年轻的公共政策制定者 迪内希·德·索萨是一位有着25年研究经验的学者和公共知识分子，曾在里根时代任白宫政策分析师。索萨曾先后于美国企业研究院和斯坦福大学的胡佛研究院出任研究员，并于2010～2012年担任纽约国王学院的校长。 索萨通过多本著作成为公共政策领域最具影响力的亚裔美国人。他被《纽约时报》评为美国最具影响力的保守派思想家之一。

迪内希·德·索萨（Dinesh D'Souza） 美国国际问题500 位权威领袖之一 美国最年轻的公共政策制定者 迪内希·德·索萨是一位有着25年研究经验的学者和公共知识分子，曾在里根时代任白宫政策分析师。索萨曾先后于美国企业研究院和斯坦福大学的胡佛研究院出任研究员，并于2010～2012年担任纽约国王学院的校长。 索萨通过多本著作成为公共政策领域最具影响力的亚裔美国人。他被《纽约时报》评为美国最具影响力的保守派思想家之一。

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelf...(展开全部)

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific history, Peter J. Bowler does just that. He asks: What if Charles Darwin had not returned from the voyage of the Beagle and thus did not write "On the Origin of Species"? Would the abse...(展开全部)

Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity, from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States. In Ecology without Culture, Christine L. Marran introduces the concept of biotropes—material and semiotic figures that exist for human perception—to navigate how and why the material world has proven...(展开全部)