How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for these systems to have 'constitutions'? Should everyone want to live under a syst...(展开全部)

出生于伊朗，从小在社会的底层与中层之间流动，满眼都是社会与人生的创痕，后在美国和瑞士接受高等教育，当代西方最有实力的小说作家。代表作《孔雀哀鸣》（Cry of the Peacock）、《信仰大道上的月光》（Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith）等问世，风行全球，令整个世界文坛大开眼界，一些评论家将之媲美于马尔克斯。曾负责为美国国防部研究伊朗政治，经常就伊朗犹太人历史和流亡主题发表演讲。目前，那海女士与家人居住在洛杉矶，并在南加州大学教授小说写作。

Stag's Leap is a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimste telling——which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending——Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing i...(展开全部)

Despite Li Gonglin’s (ca. 1049-1106) deep faith in Buddhism and the large number of recorded and extant Buddhist paintings associated with or ascribed to this great painter, twentieth century scholarship on Li Gonglin has focused primarily on his literatus identity and Confucian art oeuvres. This book departs from this traditional view to establish Li Gonglin’s importance in Ch...(展开全部)

In this period we've seen tremendous volatility in stock prices, a market bubble and its subsequent pop, a parade of corporate scandals, the demise of a leading accounting firm and proven deception by many so-called investment analysts employed by major brokerage firms.

Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish--and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion (and therefore should not claim to do so), Stark and Finke analyze the observa...(展开全部)

迈克尔·欧克肖特(Michael Oakeshott，1901—1990)，英国哲学家，政治思想家，20世纪最重要的保守主义知识分子。其思想融英国观念论与休谟的怀疑论于一炉，对伯克等人所建立的英国传统保守主义思想从哲学上做了系统阐述，他对于知识论、政治哲学、历史哲学、宗教哲学和教育哲学都有着深湛的研究和阐发。在英美学术界享有极高声誉，被誉为“20世纪少有的杰出政治哲学家”、“这个世纪最有原创性的学院政治哲学家”、“从密尔或甚至伯克以来盎格鲁-撒克逊传统最伟大的政治哲学家”。 本文集收入了欧克肖特大部分作品，其中包括在他生前发表的著作——《政治中的理性主义》(节选本)(1962)、“论人类行为》(1975)、《论历史及其他论文》(1983)和《人文知识的声音：迈克尔·欧克肖特论教育》(1989)，也包括在他去世后，由别人给他整理出版的著作《宗教、政治与...(展开全部)

It is now forty years after Mao Zedong’s death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. During this time, the collective memory of these events has been sanitized, reduced to a much-diluted version of what truly took place. Historical and sociological approaches cannot fully address the moral failure th...(展开全部)

This is the first book to consider John Dewey's early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psych

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into luc...(展开全部)