"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles-the principles of reason and tolerance and scept...(展开全部)

"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles-the principles of reason and tolerance and scept...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A generous and varied selection–the only hardcover edition available–of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four , George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dea...(展开全部)

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作者简介 约翰?S.C.阿伯特，美国著名历史学家，畅销书作家，非虚构写作领军人物，阿伯特研究所所长。其代表作品包括《拿破仑?波拿巴史》《1789年法国大革命》《美国内战史》《普鲁士与普法战争》《俄亥俄州史》等。 译者简介 周琴，文学硕士，讲师，福建师范大学闽南科技学院人文学院外语系负责人。发表论文若干，代表作品包括《大学英语教学与英语跨文化交际能力的调查》《新媒体传播环境下英语跨文化交际能力的培养》《基于微课的翻转课堂在<综合英语>教学中的应用价值探析》等。

作者简介 约翰?S.C.阿伯特，美国著名历史学家，畅销书作家，非虚构写作领军人物，阿伯特研究所所长。其代表作品包括《拿破仑?波拿巴史》《1789年法国大革命》《美国内战史》《普鲁士与普法战争》《俄亥俄州史》等。 译者简介 周琴，文学硕士，讲师，福建师范大学闽南科技学院人文学院外语系负责人。发表论文若干，代表作品包括《大学英语教学与英语跨文化交际能力的调查》《新媒体传播环境下英语跨文化交际能力的培养》《基于微课的翻转课堂在<综合英语>教学中的应用价值探析》等。

作者简介 约翰?S.C.阿伯特，美国著名历史学家，畅销书作家，非虚构写作领军人物，阿伯特研究所所长。其代表作品包括《拿破仑?波拿巴史》《1789年法国大革命》《美国内战史》《普鲁士与普法战争》《俄亥俄州史》等。 译者简介 周琴，文学硕士，讲师，福建师范大学闽南科技学院人文学院外语系负责人。发表论文若干，代表作品包括《大学英语教学与英语跨文化交际能力的调查》《新媒体传播环境下英语跨文化交际能力的培养》《基于微课的翻转课堂在<综合英语>教学中的应用价值探析》等。

Because of the difficulty posed by the contrast between the search for truth and truth itself, Michael Polanyi believes that we must alter the foundation of epistemology to include as essential to the very nature of mind, the kind of groping that constitutes the recognition of a problem. This collection of essays, assembled by Marjorie Grene, exemplifies the development of Pola...(展开全部)

Black Panther reinvented as a sharp and witty political satire? Believe it! T'Challa is the man with the plan, as Christopher Priest puts the emphasis on the Wakandan king's reputation as the ultimate statesman, as seen through the eyes of the U.S. government's Everett K. Ross. As the Panther investigates a murder in New York, Ross plays Devil's Advocate in an encounter with Me...(展开全部)