The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering - in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. "Impossible Engineering" takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising poli...(展开全部)

The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering - in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. "Impossible Engineering" takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising poli...(展开全部)

We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a movement toward a disappearing object, the same elusive object that moved Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena to ecstasy.</P>...(展开全部)

让-吕克•南希（Jean-Luc Nancy），当代欧洲著名哲学家，斯特拉斯堡大学教授。他的哲学研究推进了当代法国思想，有着深远的影响力。已发表近五十部著作，很多都已被译为德文、英文和意大利文。

Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.

Gideon Kunda is Associate Professor, Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University.

"Engineering Culture" is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to date. In "Engineering Culture", Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated 'corp...(展开全部)

Klaus Pohl　于德国亚琛工业大学获得计算机科学博士学位，担任德国杜伊斯堡-埃森大学全职教授、爱尔兰利默里克大学兼职教授。他是九十多部著作的作者或合著者，担任过多个国际、国内会议的主席。他的研究兴趣包括需求工程、基于服务的系统工程、软件质量保证与软件产品线。