Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, "You can make philosophy out of this cocktail!" From this moment of inspiration, Sartre wil...(展开全部)

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, "You can make philosophy out of this cocktail!" From this moment of inspiration, Sartre wil...(展开全部)

Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. “You see,” he says, “if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this ...(展开全部)

Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. “You see,” he says, “if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this ...(展开全部)

Fifty years ago, seconds after midnight on 14-15 August 1947, the Union Jack, emblazoned with the Star of India, began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy's House, New Delhi. One fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen. But 400 million people were to find that the price of freedom was partition and war, riot and mu...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 拉莱·科林斯：美国记者，作家。 多米尼克·拉皮埃尔：法国记者，作家。 本书两位作者作为新闻记者，具有对事件进行深度调查的特点，他们的作品以深入的历史研究、丰富的细节描写和引人入胜的叙事风格著称，生动地为读者呈现了诸多重要的历史事件。二人合著了多本畅销、著名的历史纪实作品，包括《巴黎烧了吗？》《为你，耶路撒冷》等，在全球范围内都有较高的知名度。 【译者简介】 李晖，翻译出版有《国家间政治》《茶叶·石油·WTO：贸易改变世界》《海盗史》等。

【著者简介】 拉莱·科林斯：美国记者，作家。 多米尼克·拉皮埃尔：法国记者，作家。 本书两位作者作为新闻记者，具有对事件进行深度调查的特点，他们的作品以深入的历史研究、丰富的细节描写和引人入胜的叙事风格著称，生动地为读者呈现了诸多重要的历史事件。二人合著了多本畅销、著名的历史纪实作品，包括《巴黎烧了吗？》《为你，耶路撒冷》等，在全球范围内都有较高的知名度。 【译者简介】 李晖，翻译出版有《国家间政治》《茶叶·石油·WTO：贸易改变世界》《海盗史》等。

Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid d...(展开全部)

The greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time, contends the author of this thought-provoking work, is the problem of overlegislation. In modern democratic societies, legislative bodies are increasingly usurping functions that were and should be exercised by individuals or groups rather than government. The result is an unwieldy surfeit of laws and regulations that by their s...(展开全部)