Rugby League football in an industrial northern city is a life of grime, mud, sweat and intrigue. The story follows the fortunes of the hero Arthur Machin, from the day of his inclusion in the local team to the match when he first feels age creeping up on him.

托拜厄斯·沃尔夫：1945年生，蜚声美国的短篇小说家，回忆录创作大师，“美国短篇小说复兴运动”力将，美国斯坦福大学人文学科教授。曾获欧·亨利奖、福克纳笔会奖等重要奖项。2014年，获俄勒冈州立大学颁发的斯通文学终身成就奖。

托拜厄斯·沃尔夫：1945年生，蜚声美国的短篇小说家，回忆录创作大师，“美国短篇小说复兴运动”力将，美国斯坦福大学人文学科教授。曾获欧·亨利奖、福克纳笔会奖等重要奖项。2014年，获俄勒冈州立大学颁发的斯通文学终身成就奖。

Chalmers was elected a fellow of the Academy of Humanities in 1997. His primary research interest is the philosophy of science and he is author of the best-selling textbook What Is This Thing Called Science? which has been translated into many languages. He has been a visiting scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999. For the 2007 fall semester he was...(展开全部)

What is Knowledge? Where does it come from? Can we know anything at all? This lucid and engaging introduction grapples with these central questions in the theory of knowledge, offering a clear, non-partisan view of the main themes of epistemology including recent developments such as virtue epistemology and contextualism. Duncan Pritchard discusses traditional issues and contem...(展开全部)

Chalmers was elected a fellow of the Academy of Humanities in 1997. His primary research interest is the philosophy of science and he is author of the best-selling textbook What Is This Thing Called Science? which has been translated into many languages. He has been a visiting scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999. For the 2007 fall semester he was...(展开全部)

Are moral standards relative to cultures? Are there any moral facts? What is goodness? If there are moral facts how do we learn about them? These are all questions in metaethics, the branch of ethics that investigates the status of morality, the nature of ethical facts, and the meaning of ethical statements. To the uninitiated it can appear abstract and far removed from its two...(展开全部)