As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to create new communities, technologies, businesses or charities, the results can be absolutely stunning. In this book, Alexis will share his ideas, tips an...(展开全部)

Here they are--some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD (A Play), to NO KADDISH FOR WEINSTEIN, old and new Woody Allen fans will laugh themselves hysterical over these sparkling gems.

Here they are--some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD (A Play), to NO KADDISH FOR WEINSTEIN, old and new Woody Allen fans will laugh themselves hysterical over these sparkling gems.

The sixth novel in the acclaimed series featuring Jack Reacher. With the vice president's life in danger, the head of a high-level Secret Service security detail wants Jack Reacher to find the holes in her own system, and fast. A group of men already has the high-profile victim in their sights and will stop at nothing to realize their objective. What the assassins never planne...(展开全部)

Jack Reacher walks alone.No job, no ID, no last known address.Doesn’t want to be found.But he never turns down a plea for help.Especially from a woman. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who needs Reacher’s native cunning, surly charm and controlled aggression to help her with her new job. Her job? Putting herself in the line...(展开全部)

"I love to swim in the sea, which keeps""talking to itself""in the monotone of a vagabond""who no longer recalls ""exactly how long he's been on the road. ""Swimming is like prayer: ""palms join and part, ""join and part, ""almost without end."--from "On Swimming" "Without End" draws from each of Adam Zagajewski's English-language collections, both in and out of print--"Tremor,...(展开全部)

Legendary spymaster Markus Wolf has emerged from the shadows to reveal his remarkable life of secrets, lies, and betrayals as head of the world's most formidable and effective foreign intelligence service ever. Wolf was undoubtedly the greatest spymaster of our century. He was a figure of mystery, a shadowy Cold War legend who kept his own past locked up as tightly as the s...(展开全部)

The claim that contemporary analytic philosophers rely extensively on intuitions as evidence is almost universally accepted in current meta-philosophical debates and it figures prominently in our self-understanding as analytic philosophers. No matter what area you happen to work in and what views you happen to hold in those areas, you are likely to think that philosophizing req...(展开全部)

In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgements can properly be considered objective - a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century, Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems ...(展开全部)

Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the 20th Century, Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems arise in a historical context. Putnam's central concern is ontology - indeed, the very idea of ontology as the division of philosophy concerned with what (ultimately) exists. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontolo...(展开全部)