J. Krishnamurti, one of the most beloved and renowned religious teachers of the twentieth century, often taught his students that they must look at the state of the world, with all its violence and conflict, if they are ever to understand themselves. To turn away from world events was for him not to be alive to what life has to teach. Facing a World in Crisis presents a ...(展开全部)

The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life. As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation. Technologies of cryopreservation support global food chains, seed and blood b...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·巴伦博伊姆（Daniel Barenboim，1942～），以色列钢琴家、指挥家。1942年11月15日生于阿根廷的布宜诺斯艾利斯。7岁登台演出。曾随E.菲舍尔、I.马克耶维奇、N.布朗热学钢琴、指挥与作曲。1956年以皇家爱乐乐团独奏家的身份在英国首次公演。1957年1月，在斯托科夫斯基指挥下，于卡内基大厅演出普罗科菲耶夫的《第一钢琴协奏曲》。此后，进行了一系列的巡回演出，获得世界声誉。1962年起从事指挥，1964～1975年担任英国室内乐团指挥，1975～1989年转任巴黎管弦乐队指挥，1991年至2004年担任芝加哥交响乐团首席指挥，1992年任柏林国家歌剧院音乐指导。曾先后指挥过柏林爱乐乐团、以色列爱乐乐团、费城管弦乐团、纽约爱乐乐团、伦敦交响乐团、英国室内乐团等。 曲目涉猎广泛。作为钢琴家，尤擅演奏贝多芬、莫扎特作品，以浪漫热情服...(展开全部)

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. In this timely and enlightening book, the bestselling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives. Digital minimalists are all...(展开全部)

科技爆炸的时代，我们会为科技所累或是因科技得益？ 《数字极简主义》让你务实地找到线上与线下生活的平衡点！ 越来越多人科技产品不离身，活跃于社交网络却疏于与人亲身交流，于是出现了一群人，提倡尽可能减少使用科技产品的时间，这群人便是数位极简主义者。 你我身边都有数位极简主义者，他们不会总是心浮气躁，也能常保乐观的心，更甚者，他们能够与人面对面长久对话，看都不看手机一眼。他们宁可畅游书海、致力于木工作业或是来段长长的晨间慢跑，而非动也不动抱著科技产品不放。他们享受与家人、好友相聚，而不会总心念着要归档整理这些共处的时光。他们关注日常时事，但不会迫切的分分秒秒都要知道*消息。他们不害怕稍不留意便错失重要瞬间，因为他们已然了解自己所需，了解自己对生活的满足与快乐该从何获取。 在这俨然科技爆炸的时代，适度抽离科技产品已成为我们都必须学习的课题，像是关掉提醒...(展开全部)

<DIV>The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies—two subjects seldom theorized together—signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the “question of the animal,” challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the politics of capital and of animal lif...(展开全部)

We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World.<br /> <br /> These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technolog...(展开全部)

Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and made possible through state violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts owed to the population. The state owed a "social debt" to the poor accrued through inequalities generated by economic li...(展开全部)