西蒙娜•德•波伏瓦（Simone de Beauvoir 1908.1.9—1986.4.14)，20世纪法国最有影响的女性之一，存在主义学者、文学家。波伏瓦一生著作甚丰，其中以荣获龚古尔文学奖的长篇小说《名士风流》、被奉为女权主义圣经的理论著作《第二性》和鸿篇巨制的回忆录《波伏瓦回忆录 第一卷：端方淑女》《第二卷：岁月的力量》《第三卷：事物的力量》《第四卷：归根到底》最为突出。20世纪50年代，波伏瓦访问中国，遂有《长征》（1957）问世。此外，其他重要作品有《女宾》《他人之血》《存在主义与民族智慧》等。 陈筱卿，1963年毕业于北京大学西语系法语专业，国际关系学院教授、研究生导师，享有国务院政府特殊津贴，国家人事部考试中心专家组成员。翻译出版法国名家名著多部，达八百多万字，有：拉伯雷的《巨人传》、卢梭的《忏悔录》、雨果的《巴黎圣母院》、大仲马的《...(展开全部)

Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society s other rules. Reinvigorating ideas from Jeremy Bentham and...(展开全部)

Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society s other rules. Reinvigorating ideas from Jeremy Bentham and...(展开全部)

弗兰纳里•奥康纳（1925-1964），美国南方文学代表人物，与麦卡勒斯齐名的美国天才女作家，美国国家图书奖六十年唯一最佳小说奖得主，被公认为是继福克纳之后美国南方最杰出的作家，在世界文坛中影响巨大。 奥康纳出生于美国佐治亚州，1945 年毕业于佐治亚州女子学院，原本打算成为一位职业政治漫画家的她，在获得了州立大学提供的研究生奖学金之后，进入了著名的依阿华大学作家培训班，从此也将事业的重心转向了文学作品的创作。1946年，奥康纳在《音调》杂志上发表了人生的第一个短篇小说——《天竺葵》，并因此获得了莱因哈特（Rinehart）奖学金，之后她的创作便一发不可收拾，在一年之内写下了《理发师》《野猫》《警察》《火鸡》《火车》等多部短篇小说，并于1948年开始创作被后世奉为经典的长篇小说——《智血》。1950年，因被确诊患上红斑狼疮，奥康纳只得回到家乡农场静养...(展开全部)

阿诺德·约瑟夫·汤因比（Arnold Joseph Toynbee，1889—1975），英国著名历史学家，也是20世纪具有国际影响的几位历史学家。毕业于牛津大学。先后任职于牛津大学、伦敦大学和英国外交部等机构，1919年和1946年分别以英国政府代表的身份参加两次世界大战结束后的巴黎和平会议。1926年起担任英国皇家国际问题研究所部长（一直任职到1953年为止）。以《历史研究》为代表的一系列著作为他赢得了世界性声誉，他也因此而被誉为“近世以来伟大的历史学家”。

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, Drawings highlights the work of key contemporary figures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course of architectural thinking. Bringing this together is a chapter–by–chapter series of essays that broadly charts the forward movement and expansion of drawing iconography, techniques and...(展开全部)

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, Drawings highlights the work of key contemporary figures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course of architectural thinking. Bringing this together is a chapter–by–chapter series of essays that broadly charts the forward movement and expansion of drawing iconography, techniques and...(展开全部)

Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent me...(展开全部)

This book re-conceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's Aesthetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice. On the one hand, Baumgarten's Aesthetics is organized around the new concept of the "subject": as a totality of faculties; an agent defined by ca...(展开全部)