The author of the national bestseller The Closing of the American Mind offers a provocative indictment of the devaluing of love and intimacy in today's culture. Allan Bloom explores the language of love from the Bible to Freud, shedding penetrating light on the true nature of our most basic human connections. "(A) rich mine of a book".--New York Daily News.

This book is intended for the use of those who can still be charmed by books and who have an irreducible interest in the depiction of love. Such persons use books for pleasure and instruction. Books about love inform and elevate the fantasy life of their readers and actually become part of their eros while teaching them about it...The best books not only help us to describe the...(展开全部)

[美]艾莉森•卢里（Alison Lurie，1926— ） 康奈尔大学英国文学教授，1985年凭借小说《外交事务》获得普利策奖。她是60年代崛起的女作家群中的一位佼佼者，被文学评论家评价为睿智过人的“社会风俗”小说家。她的作品多是世态喜剧,重点探讨美国中产阶级的社会生活，对知识分子生活世界的探讨尤为深入细致。

[美]艾莉森•卢里（Alison Lurie，1926— ） 康奈尔大学英国文学教授，1985年凭借小说《外交事务》获得普利策奖。她是60年代崛起的女作家群中的一位佼佼者，被文学评论家评价为睿智过人的“社会风俗”小说家。她的作品多是世态喜剧,重点探讨美国中产阶级的社会生活，对知识分子生活世界的探讨尤为深入细致。

"No-one can make us love love as much as Shakespeare, and no-one can make us despair of it as effectively as he does". William Shakespeare is the only classical author to remain widely popular - not only in America but throughout the world - and Allan Bloom argues that this is because no other writer holds up a truer mirror to human nature. Unlike the Romantics and other modern...(展开全部)

Written with the erudition and wit that made The Closing of the American Mind a #1 best-seller, Love and Friendship is a searching examination of the basic human connections at the center of the greatest works of literature and philosophy throughout the ages. In a spirited polemic directed at our contemporary culture, Allan Bloom argues that we live in a world where love and fr...(展开全部)

In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; the stock market takes a nosedive. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are fairly cheerful about it all. But we do devote much effort to managing and ameliorating uncertainty. Is it a...(展开全部)

In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; the stock market takes a nosedive. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are fairly cheerful about it all. But we do devote much effort to managing and ameliorating uncertainty. Is it a...(展开全部)

Written for children ages 8–12 with little to no coding experience, this straightforward visual guide uses fun graphics and easy-to-follow instructions to show young learners how to build their own computer projects using Scratch, a popular free programming language. With Coding Games in Scratch, kids can build single and multiplayer platform games, create puzzles and memory ga...(展开全部)

A reproduction of one of the architect’s personal sketchbooks this beautiful volume contains fifty-two drawings and collages that explore the passage of time and the possibility of a tender architecture. The thoughts and drawings in this book were made in the month of January, 1994, Hejduk explains, I wanted to make two architectures in love . . . to have architectural intercou...(展开全部)