Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity’s struggle through modernity. In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his father’s death during World War II: details that w...(展开全部)

Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity’s struggle through modernity. In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his father’s death during World War II: details that w...(展开全部)

This revised edition features new interviews - everyone from the vice president of global citizenship at Cirque du Soleil to a Best Buy clerk - and new neuroscience findings. It also shows how you can foster engagement through everyday conversations, staff meetings, and work design.

This revised edition features new interviews - everyone from the vice president of global citizenship at Cirque du Soleil to a Best Buy clerk - and new neuroscience findings. It also shows how you can foster engagement through everyday conversations, staff meetings, and work design.

Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women died from laughing too hard—or so a spate of sensationalist obituaries claimed. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of women’s risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy? Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of “hysterical laughter,” exploring how women’s amusement has been theorized and demoni...(展开全部)

Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women died from laughing too hard—or so a spate of sensationalist obituaries claimed. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of women’s risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy? Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of “hysterical laughter,” exploring how women’s amusement has been theorized and demoni...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 'Diabolically clever. The reader is alternately impressed, beguiles, frightened, bewildered. A considerable achievement.' - Anita Brookner. During the First World War, five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no-man's land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered, the families are notified that the men died in the lin...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 'Diabolically clever. The reader is alternately impressed, beguiles, frightened, bewildered. A considerable achievement.' - Anita Brookner. During the First World War, five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no-man's land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered, the families are notified that the men died in the lin...(展开全部)

简介：Death is the only beacon that is always on, and no matter where you sail, you will eventually have to turn to it. Everything will pass away, and only death will live forever.（死亡是唯一永远亮着的灯塔，无论你航行到哪里，你最终都要转向它，一切都会过去，只有死亡才会永远活着。）（已完结）

There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls? Should we accept an account according to which peop...(展开全部)