Bertrand Russell's theory of definite descriptions sparked an ongoing debate concerning the proper logical and linguistic analysis of definite descriptions. While it is now widely acknowledged that, like the indexical expressions 'I', 'here', and 'now', definite descriptions in natural language are context-sensitive, there is significant disagreement as to the ultimate challeng...(展开全部)

Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept of photomediations that unites the twenty essays collected here challenges the traditional classification of photography as suspended between art and social practice. Capturing the dynamics of the photographic medium today, it also explores photography's inherent kinship with ot...(展开全部)

This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical—the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body—is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the global distri...(展开全部)

'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing ...' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back. "A Capote Reader" contains much of the author's published work: his brilliant and prolific oeuvre of fiction, travel sketches, portraits, reportage and ess...(展开全部)

Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept of photomediations that unites the twenty essays collected here challenges the traditional classification of photography as suspended between art and social practice. Capturing the dynamics of the photographic medium today, it also explores photography's inherent kinship with ot...(展开全部)

米奇·霍洛维茨（Mitch Horowitz ），企鹅出版社作者，出版人，著有《神秘地美国》、《神奇俱乐部》等获奖图书，纽约时报、华尔街日报、华盛顿邮报等专栏作家，CNN、哥伦比亚广播等有声书讲师。受拿破仑·希尔基金会委托，研究拿破仑·希尔的思想。

米奇·霍洛维茨（Mitch Horowitz ），企鹅出版社作者，出版人，著有《神秘地美国》、《神奇俱乐部》等获奖图书，纽约时报、华尔街日报、华盛顿邮报等专栏作家，CNN、哥伦比亚广播等有声书讲师。受拿破仑·希尔基金会委托，研究拿破仑·希尔的思想。

In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called 'the Casanova of reading', argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. 'We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything', writes Manguel, 'landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create'. Reading o...(展开全部)