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For most Americans, candy is an uneasy pleasure, eaten with side helpings of guilt and worry. Yet candy accounts for only 6 percent of the added sugar in the American diet. And at least it’s honest about what it is—a processed food, eaten for pleasure, with no particular nutritional benefit. So why is candy considered especially harmful, when it’s not so different from the othe...(展开全部)

肯尼斯·麦克弗森（Kenneth McPherson）是澳大利亚科廷大学（Curtin University of Technology）历史系教授，保修期从事海洋史的研究与教学，主要著作有`How Best Do We Survive?': A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims，The Indian Ocean: A History of People and the Sea，Four Decades of Courage: Development of United States Air Power and The 7th Bombardment Group等。

Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors. She argues that ...(展开全部)

◎ 著者简介 撒穆尔•伊诺克•斯通普夫（Samuel Enoch Stumpf）是范德堡大学的哲学荣休教授和法学荣休教授，他于1998年去世，享年80岁。他于加州大学洛杉矶分校取得商业和金融专业的理学学士学位，于安德沃牛顿神学院取得神学学士学位，于芝加哥大学取得哲学专业的哲学博士学位。他于1948年入职范德堡，并于1952年至1967年担任哲学系主任。在康奈尔学院任职校长五年后，斯通普夫教授回到了范德堡，直到1984年退休。 詹姆斯•菲泽（James Fieser）是田纳西大学马丁分校的哲学教授。他于伯里亚学院取得了文学学士学位，于普渡大学取得了哲学专业的硕士和博士学位。他独撰、合著了十本教科书，编注了十卷本《对休谟的早期回应》和五卷本《苏格兰常识哲学》。他是互联网哲学百科全书网站（www.iep.utm.edu）的创办者和总编辑。他的个人网站可以在...(展开全部)

This comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. With a lively and approachable style it covers the principal contributions of Western civilization's most influential philosophers. It provides ample detail without complicat...(展开全部)

This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an easy-to-read but provocative account of the development of social theory, covering a range of key figures and clas...(展开全部)

Hilarious sequel to The Cow That Laid an Egg Marjorie the cow is terribly excited. She's going to enter her daughter, Daisy, in the baby cow contest. Daisy has been a very special cow ever since the day that she surprised everyone by hatching out of an egg! Marjorie feels sure that Daisy will win, hooves down. But the other mothers are starting to talk...Daisy isn't quite lik...(展开全部)

Until Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of the Indian Ocean and its peoples. It is this civilization and its destruction at the hands of the West that Richard Hall recreates in this book. Hall's history of the exploration and exploitation by Chinese and Arab travellers, and by the ...(展开全部)

In Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, Daisuke Miyao explores the influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the actualité films made by the Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière films, Miyao contends that more than being documents of everyday life, they provided a medium for experimenting with aest...(展开全部)