The paintings we see today in museums, galleries, churches and temples are often much altered by the centuries. Pictures can split, rot, be eaten by woodworm, warp, blister, crack, cup, flake, darken, blanch, discolor, become too translucent and disappear under a centuries-old varnish; and they can also suffer from the efforts of their owners to rectify these situations: they m...(展开全部)

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then—diminishing human agency and political free...(展开全部)

In "The Human Condition" McNeill provides a provocative interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human. In "The Great Frontier" he questions the notion of "frontier freedom" through an examination of European expansion. The concluding essay speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives.

菲利克斯·斯塔尔德（Felix Stalder），苏黎世艺术大学（Zürich University of the Arts）数字文化教授，研究方向为文化、政治与技术的动态交叉关系。他是“邮件列表”的主持人，也是“世界信息研究所”与“技术政治工作组”的成员，近期的出版物包括《数字团结》与《数字状况》。

菲利克斯·斯塔尔德（Felix Stalder），苏黎世艺术大学（Zürich University of the Arts）数字文化教授，研究方向为文化、政治与技术的动态交叉关系。他是“邮件列表”的主持人，也是“世界信息研究所”与“技术政治工作组”的成员，近期的出版物包括《数字团结》与《数字状况》。

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then—diminishing human agency and political free...(展开全部)

菲利克斯·斯塔尔德（Felix Stalder），苏黎世艺术大学（Zürich University of the Arts）数字文化教授，研究方向为文化、政治与技术的动态交叉关系。他是“邮件列表”的主持人，也是“世界信息研究所”与“技术政治工作组”的成员，近期的出版物包括《数字团结》与《数字状况》。

菲利克斯·斯塔尔德（Felix Stalder），苏黎世艺术大学（Zürich University of the Arts）数字文化教授，研究方向为文化、政治与技术的动态交叉关系。他是“邮件列表”的主持人，也是“世界信息研究所”与“技术政治工作组”的成员，近期的出版物包括《数字团结》与《数字状况》。

Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers - depicting overcrowded housin...(展开全部)