Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a cont...(展开全部)

The concept of a right is fundamental to moral, political, and legal thinking, but much of the use of that concept is selective and fragmentary: it is common merely to appeal to this or that intuitively plausible attribution of rights as needed for purposes of argument. In The Realm of Rights Judith Thomson provides a full-scale, systematic theory of human and social rights, br...(展开全部)

No modern astronomer made a more profound contribution to our understanding of the cosmos than did Edwin Hubble, who first conclusively demonstrated that the universe is expanding. Basing his theory on the observation of the change in distanct galaxies, called red shift, Hubble showed that this is a Doppler effect, or alteration in the wavelength of light, resulting from the r...(展开全部)

In less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, comprised entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from one another. We must thank, in part, Edwin P. Hubble - one of the greatest observational astronomers of the 20th century. In 1936, Hubble described his principa...(展开全部)

“…a landmark anthology, which establishes that the crafting of brilliant short impossible crime fiction is not an exclusively Anglo-American endeavor.” Publishers Weekly (Starred review) Here is a groundbreaking collection of 26 impossible crime stories from over 20 countries, demonstrating the global reach of this most fiendishly ingenious tale. Several stories appear here for...(展开全部)

戈夫曼（1922～1982） Goffman，Erving 美国社会学家。符号互动论的代表人物，拟剧论的倡导人。1945年毕业于多伦多大学，1953年在芝加哥大学获博士学位。1962～1968年任加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校社会学教授。1968年在宾夕法尼亚大学任本杰明·富兰克林人类学和社会学教授。1981～1982年任美国社会学协会主席。1945～1951年间曾在设得兰群岛进行实地调查，并据此写出他的第一部重要著作《日常生活中的自我表现》。戈夫曼深受 H.G.布鲁默等符号互动论者的影响。他以个人经验观察的结果为主要资料来源，对社会互动、邂逅、聚集、小群体和异常行为进行了大量研究。其理论观点主要有：①在人际交往形式的研究中首创拟剧论，认为社会行为就是社会表演，人们在互动过程中，小心翼翼地扮演自己的多种角色，从而使自身的形象能为自己的目的服务。②在对异常行...(展开全部)

戈夫曼（1922～1982） Goffman，Erving 美国社会学家。符号互动论的代表人物，拟剧论的倡导人。1945年毕业于多伦多大学，1953年在芝加哥大学获博士学位。1962～1968年任加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校社会学教授。1968年在宾夕法尼亚大学任本杰明·富兰克林人类学和社会学教授。1981～1982年任美国社会学协会主席。1945～1951年间曾在设得兰群岛进行实地调查，并据此写出他的第一部重要著作《日常生活中的自我表现》。戈夫曼深受 H.G.布鲁默等符号互动论者的影响。他以个人经验观察的结果为主要资料来源，对社会互动、邂逅、聚集、小群体和异常行为进行了大量研究。其理论观点主要有：①在人际交往形式的研究中首创拟剧论，认为社会行为就是社会表演，人们在互动过程中，小心翼翼地扮演自己的多种角色，从而使自身的形象能为自己的目的服务。②在对异常行...(展开全部)

In this superbly illustrated volume, distinguished Egyptologist Zahi Hawass guides you through the architectural landscape of ancient Egypt. From houses and palaces, to the temples of the gods, to the tombs, hundreds of photographs and a compelling text unveil the mysteries of ancient Egypt as unearthed through major excavations. As it leads you on a tour of important sites—th...(展开全部)

This remains one of the most important scholarly and illustrative examinations of Kahn's life work and his philosophy of architecture. Photographs and descriptive analysis are followed by a biographical chronology of the architect's life and a complete list of his buildings and projects from 1925 to 1974. The primary texts critically address different dimensions and periods of ...(展开全部)