In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Gandhi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is ...(展开全部)

In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a "wolf-boy" in India, or the idea of looking for a Yeti.

奥普拉·温弗瑞： 通过当代传媒的力量，奥普拉·温弗瑞与世界各地的人们建立了无以伦比的联结。在25年间，作为超高收视率并屡屡获奖的同名脱口秀节目主持人和制片人，奥普拉·温弗瑞启发并鼓励了全球数百万观众。如今的她，由于全球媒体领导者和慈善家的身份，成为了最受人尊重和仰慕的公众人物之一。

奥普拉·温弗瑞： 通过当代传媒的力量，奥普拉·温弗瑞与世界各地的人们建立了无以伦比的联结。在25年间，作为超高收视率并屡屡获奖的同名脱口秀节目主持人和制片人，奥普拉·温弗瑞启发并鼓励了全球数百万观众。如今的她，由于全球媒体领导者和慈善家的身份，成为了最受人尊重和仰慕的公众人物之一。

Beyond Analytic Philosophy Doing Justice to What We Know Hao Wang Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Russell and philosophy in this century 45 2. A digression on Wittgenstein's philosophy 75 3. From Vienna 1925 to America 1984 101 4. Quine's logical negativism 153 5. Metaphilosophical observations 191 References 215 Chronological table 231 Index 261

This cogent and knowledgeable critique of the tradition of modern analytic philosophy focuses on the work of its central figures—Russell, Carnap, and Quine—and finds it wanting. In its place, Hao Wang unfolds his own original view of what philosophy could and should be. The base of any serious philosophy, he contends, should take as its point of departure the actual state of hu...(展开全部)

Beyond Analytic Philosophy Doing Justice to What We Know Hao Wang Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Russell and philosophy in this century 45 2. A digression on Wittgenstein's philosophy 75 3. From Vienna 1925 to America 1984 101 4. Quine's logical negativism 153 5. Metaphilosophical observations 191 References 215 Chronological table 231 Index 261

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)