Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve elicits answers to these questions from eleven outstanding philosophers and social scientists: Ken Binmore Philippa Foot Harry Frankfurt Allan Gibbard Daniel Kahneman Frances...(展开全部)

Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve elicits answers to these questions from eleven outstanding philosophers and social scientists: Ken Binmore Philippa Foot Harry Frankfurt Allan Gibbard Daniel Kahneman Frances...(展开全部)

Book Description "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing bee...(展开全部)

What do the most successful investors have in common? David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of one of the world’s largest investment firms, has spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the world to discover the time-tested principles, hard-earned wisdom, and indispensable tools that guide their practice. Rubenstein, who has spent more than three decades in the hypercompetiti...(展开全部)

Book Description "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing bee...(展开全部)

What do the most successful investors have in common? David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of one of the world’s largest investment firms, has spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the world to discover the time-tested principles, hard-earned wisdom, and indispensable tools that guide their practice. Rubenstein, who has spent more than three decades in the hypercompetiti...(展开全部)

According to the nineteenth-century teachings of Nikolai Fedorov—librarian, religious philosopher, and progenitor of Russian cosmism—our ethical obligation to use reason and knowledge to care for the sick extends to curing the dead of their terminal status. The dead must be brought back to life using means of advanced technology—resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in materi...(展开全部)

Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic work and their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection explores how au...(展开全部)

According to the nineteenth-century teachings of Nikolai Fedorov—librarian, religious philosopher, and progenitor of Russian cosmism—our ethical obligation to use reason and knowledge to care for the sick extends to curing the dead of their terminal status. The dead must be brought back to life using means of advanced technology—resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in materi...(展开全部)

大卫·霍克尼（David Hockney） 画家、摄影师。20世纪60年代波普运动在英国的代表，被认为是20世纪最具影响力的英国艺术家，也是当今国际画坛最有影响力的艺术家之一。霍克尼早年接受正规艺术教育，毕业于伦敦皇家艺术学院，1966年（29岁）即在画廊举办个人画展。受现代主义思潮影响，创作了大量蚀刻版画，受到艺术界的重视。20世纪60年代多次到美国旅行，后在加州设立了自己的工作室。由此转向写实风格，并创作了多幅经典名作。如《更大水花》，《一个艺术家的肖像》等。 20世纪80年代起，霍克尼创作了一系列名为“Joiners”的摄影拼贴作品，通过宝丽来相片，探讨了绘画与摄影在视觉表现上的关系，对摄影作为艺术的可能性做了具有重要意义的探讨。这使他在摄影史上，享有与画家格哈德•里希特同样的重要地位。而在贡布里希的《艺术的故事》中，霍克尼也成为仅有的两位被介...(展开全部)