Since the introduction of the personal computer in the early 1980s, many objects have been designed to have capabilities well beyond their immediate use or appearance. Whether openly and actively or in subtle, subliminal ways, these objects talk to us, and we have come to expect interaction with them. Contemporary designers, besides giving objects form and function, write their...(展开全部)

"What kind of person do I want my child to be?" There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, ...(展开全部)

This volume examines an often taken for granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the anthropologists and philosophers...(展开全部)

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and frater...(展开全部)

Since the introduction of the personal computer in the early 1980s, many objects have been designed to have capabilities well beyond their immediate use or appearance. Whether openly and actively or in subtle, subliminal ways, these objects talk to us, and we have come to expect interaction with them. Contemporary designers, besides giving objects form and function, write their...(展开全部)

This volume provides a history of how the human has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

鲍勃•赫普尔(Bob Hepple，1934—2015），勋爵，曾任剑桥大学克莱尔学院院长。他兼任劳动法研究会（Industrial Law Society）的荣誉会长，平权信托(Equal Rights Trust)的荣誉理事长，在侵权责任法、行政法、劳动法、反歧视法等领域著述颇丰，在劳动法研究领域是英国乃至欧洲公认的顶级专家。 赫普尔教授曾长期担任英国《劳动法百科全书》的主编，并牵头协调欧洲范围内的劳动法研究资源，主编了《欧洲劳动法的形成》与《欧洲劳动法的演进》两部欧洲劳动法比较历史研究的恢弘巨著，在比较法领域享有盛誉。 李满奎，男，法学博士，西南政法大学经济法学院教授，博士研究生导师，主要从事劳动与社会保障法的教学和研究工作，在《环球法律评论》、Industrial Relations/ Relations Industrielles、Jour...(展开全部)

The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and came to realization just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, in separate interviews, in New York City. Guided by Borradori, Habermas and Derrida evaluated the significance of the most destructive terrorist attack ever perpetrate...(展开全部)