Why are Germans so well informed on World War II while most Japanese know almost nothing about it? Why do the majority of West Germans feel guilty, Japanese victimised, and 'Ossies' virtuous? Ian Buruma explores the causes of these varied attitudes, both in the past culture of each country and in their post-war treatment and other subsequent events, and looks at how they were ...(展开全部)

In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which many of their friends have succumbed. Children who survive are allowed to move to...(展开全部)

Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. Are the German people guilty?These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention among German intellectuals and students; they seemed to offer a path to sanity an...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology bo...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology bo...(展开全部)

盖伊•温奇博士（Guy Winch， Ph.D），是畅销书《嘎吱作响的车轮》（The Squeaky Wheel）的作者。1991年获得纽约大学临床心理学博士学位，并在纽约大学医学中心完成了家庭与夫妻治疗的博士后研究。从1992年起，他一直以私人心理医生的身份在曼哈顿工作，帮助病人将情绪急救的方法应用到日常生活中。作为美国心理协会的成员，温奇博士在《今日心理学》（Psychology Today）杂志网站开设“嘎吱作响的车轮”专栏，受到热烈欢迎。他是研究减轻心理压力方面的专家，也是炙手可热的主持人和国际知名作家。偶尔地，他会在纽约市内或周围的俱乐部表演单口相声。

被羞辱后我们还能挽回面子吗？经历了巨痛后将如何继续生活？被背叛过，在哪里可寻得信任的勇气？当下这个时代，我们经常被侵入性消极情绪困扰；幸福只像一场永无尽头的艰苦奋争，无法逃避，也不是不断努力就一定会成功的斗争。然而，也是时候放下那些阻碍前进的恐惧和羞耻了：得到幸福的关键是审视自己内心，学会宽恕。 本书通过十一个角色的叙述揭示了原谅那些冒犯和伤害我们的人，就是获得自由和重新掌控我们生活的第一块垫脚石。

被羞辱后我们还能挽回面子吗？经历了巨痛后将如何继续生活？被背叛过，在哪里可寻得信任的勇气？当下这个时代，我们经常被侵入性消极情绪困扰；幸福只像一场永无尽头的艰苦奋争，无法逃避，也不是不断努力就一定会成功的斗争。然而，也是时候放下那些阻碍前进的恐惧和羞耻了：得到幸福的关键是审视自己内心，学会宽恕。 本书通过十一个角色的叙述揭示了原谅那些冒犯和伤害我们的人，就是获得自由和重新掌控我们生活的第一块垫脚石。