The most important questions in life are questions about what we should do and what we should believe. The first kind of question has received considerable attention by normative ethicists, who search for a complete systematic account of right action. This book is about the second kind of question. Right Belief and True Belief starts by defining a new field of inquiry named 'no...(展开全部)

Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? And how do we grappl...(展开全部)

Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? And how do we grappl...(展开全部)

Poignant, funny, and utterly original, Ethel & Ernest is Raymond Briggs's loving depiction of his parents' lives from their chance first encounter in the 1920s until their deaths in the 1970s. Ethel and Ernest were solid members of the English working class, part of the generation that lived through the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century. They met during the Depre...(展开全部)

Genuine art has the power to awaken and liberate. The renowned meditation master and artist Chögyam Trungpa called this type of art “dharma art”—any creative work that springs from an awakened state of mind, characterized by directness, unselfconsciousness, and nonaggression. Dharma art provides a vehicle to appreciate the nature of things as they are and express it without any...(展开全部)

Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the ac...(展开全部)

Disaffected computer wizard "Mr. Slippery" (True Name Roger Pollack) is an early adopter of a new full-immersion virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. He and the other wizards form a cabal to keep their true identities — their True Names — secret to avoid prosecution by their "Great Adversary" — the government of the United States. The lines that define us are not ...(展开全部)

[美] 查尔斯·波蒂斯：美国当代小说家，生于1933年。大学攻读新闻专业，毕业后从事了六年记者工作。1964年，他从报社辞职，自此专注于小说创作，出版了五部长篇小说。他的作品犀利幽默，很多文学评论家将他的风格与马克•吐温的创作相提并论。 他广为流传的作品是《大地惊雷》。这部小说曾两次被改编成电影，其中2010年版由科恩兄弟执导，斩获奥斯卡10项提名。

克里斯汀•汉娜(Kristin Hannah)：美国新一代爱情小说天后，《纽约时报》畅销书作者。已出版18部小说，多部作品登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜。 本作品2010年最新上市，是作者迄今最具吸引力的小说，充满了姐妹情、复仇、嫉妒、背叛等各种元素。故事唯美曲折，引人入胜，令人不忍释卷。