From animals to robotization, climate change to migration, Rem Koolhaas presents a new collaborative project exploring how countryside everywhere is transforming beyond recognition. The official companion to the highly anticipated exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, this pocketbook gathers in-depth essays spanning from Fukushima to the Netherlands, Siberia to Uganda—an ...(展开全部)

Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise. In addition to 'Minority Report' this exclusive collection includes nine other outstanding short stories by the twentie...(展开全部)

Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise. In addition to 'Minority Report' this exclusive collection includes nine other outstanding short stories by the twentie...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 普里莫·莱维，意大利犹太人，作家，化学家，奥斯维辛174517号囚犯。1919年，莱维出生于意大利都灵；1943年，他因参与反法西斯运动被捕，后被遣送至集中营。战争结束后，他回到故乡都灵生活。在此后的人生中，他从事工业化学这一行当30年，同时作为一位作家，写作了“奥斯维辛三部曲”（《这是不是个人》《休战》和《被淹没与被拯救的》），以及其他建基于其化学家身份和大屠杀幸存者经历的小说、散文和诗歌作品。1987年4月11日，莱维从他出生的房子坠落身亡。 作为奥斯维辛最重要的记录者和见证人，莱维的文字具有一种与其他受难者不同的特质，他秉持一种化学家的冷静与节制书写记忆，同时，又如菲利普·罗斯所说，“本该充满悼念情绪和无尽的绝望，相反却充满活力”。他的文字，让人们更理性地思考人性。 莱昂纳多·德·贝内代蒂（1898—1983），意大利籍犹太人，外...(展开全部)

The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her ex...(展开全部)

Saba Mahmood is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton) and the coauthor of Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech.

Saba Mahmood is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton) and the coauthor of Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech.

The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her ex...(展开全部)

Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status uf science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are co...(展开全部)