In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008—while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking—was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has beco...(展开全部)

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, this best-selling book by one of Japan's most ambitious contemporary fiction writers lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in an age of English dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge, ...(展开全部)

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom o...(展开全部)

Talk about great timing. Rothbard's extraordinary book unravels the mystery of banking: what is legitimate enterprise and what is a government-backed shell game that can't last. His explanation is clear enough for anyone to follow and yet precise and rigorous enough to be the best textbook for college classes on the topic. This is because its expositional clarity--in its histor...(展开全部)

莫瑞•罗斯巴德（Murray Rothbard），奥地利经济学派的代表人物，生前主要担任美国内华达大学经济学教授。曾任米塞斯研究院学术事务副会长，《奥地利经济学评论》编辑，拥有哥伦比亚大学学士、硕士和博士学位。他参与纽约大学举办的米塞斯研讨会达十多年，罗斯巴德一生著述甚丰，他的著作对于现代的自由意志主义和无政府资本主义理论有著极大贡献。重要著作包括：《1819年大恐慌》(The Panic of 1819)、《人、经济与国家》(Man，Economy,and State)、《美国大萧条》(America’s Great Depression)、《权力与市场》(Power and Market)、《自由的道德》(The Ethics of Liberty)、《在自由中孕育》(Conceived in Liberty)等。

Life on the Screenis a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impac...(展开全部)

gy of online life and how the computer provokes new ways of thinking about our most basic concepts of self.

The lessons of this book can help us all find the opportunities that are just waiting to be discovered in the challenges we face every day. This book is about failure, but failure in a whole new light. It is about how to Fail To Succeed.

Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar

This volume, Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosoph...(展开全部)