How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating, mind-expanding exploration of our moral universe We have always lived with ethically significant others, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods we believe in or the machines we are endowing with life. How should we treat them as our world changes? In Animals, Robots, Gods, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane pro...(展开全部)

How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating, mind-expanding exploration of our moral universe We have always lived with ethically significant others, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods we believe in or the machines we are endowing with life. How should we treat them as our world changes? In Animals, Robots, Gods, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane pro...(展开全部)

In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have moved residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country now known as "a society of acquaintances." There has been a resulting breakdown of civility and trust in contemporary China, and the new market economy doesn't offer any soluti...(展开全部)

Helen Gardner is a vigorous and eloquent champion of traditional literary values. These values have been subverted, she feels, by some of the ablest of modern academics and by prevalent tendencies in criticism and teaching today. She discusses the new schools of criticism which exalt the sometimes unintelligible theorist above the creator of the work of art, the imaginative int...(展开全部)

莱斯特·库尔茨（Lester Kurtz），耶鲁大学神学院宗教学硕士，芝加哥大学社会学博士，得克萨斯州立大学奥斯汀分校社会学教授、宗教研究中心主任，曾任美国和平与正义研究协会主席，美国社会学和平、战争和社会冲突分会主席，2005年被授予“罗宾?威廉斯杰出职业成就奖”（Robin Williams Distinguished Career Award）。他曾在芝加哥大学、西北大学、印度德里大学及台湾东大学等多所大学访学授课。 主要研究领域为比较宗教社会学、和平与冲突、西方和非西方社会理论等，一直在寻找解决暴力的出路，创建了一个暴力理论系统。曾创立及编辑多本重要学术刊物，主编《非暴、和平和冲突百科全书》，另与人合编《非暴力社会运动——一种地理学视角的分析》，代表作为《异端的政治——罗马天主教的现代主义危机》（获宗教科学研究协会杰出著作奖）。

In an era plagued by religious conflict, the Third Edition of Gods in the Global Village directly responds to issues of social problems prevalent in the world today. Using an engaging, thought-provoking style, Lester R. Kurtz focuses on the relationship among the major faith traditions that inform the thinking and ethical standards of most people in the emerging global social o...(展开全部)

For a one semester survey course in Introduction to Humanities. This single-volume text is a historical survey of the western humanities. Written to be accessible to students with little background in the arts and humanities, Adventure in the Human Spirit provides a balanced introduction to the major arts, philosophy, and religion. This text approaches the humanities by focusi...(展开全部)

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral d...(展开全部)

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the...(展开全部)

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the...(展开全部)