The emperor's personality is brought to life against a background rich with the varied cultures he united through Christianity

作者：塞缪尔·韦伯（Samuel Weber） 加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校英语教授，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校巴黎批判理论项目主任。在他的许多著作中，有《组织与诠释》（1987）和《大众传媒：形式、技术、媒体》（1996）。 译者：郭侃俊 清华大学外语系文学硕士，曾任北京科技大学外国语学院副院长、国际处处长，现任职于北京师范大学。译有《1848年欧洲革命》《电影创造美国：美国电影文化史》《看电影的艺术》等书。

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The 'City of God' or the 'City of Man'? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago - and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human au...(展开全部)

1. "Lower than the Angels" (evolution of man from ape to 400,000 years ago) 2. "The Harvest of the Seasons" (agriculture and the first settlements) 3. "The Grain in the Stone" (tools, early human migration) 4. "The Hidden Structure" (fire, metals and alchemy) 5. "Music of the Spheres" (the language of numbers) 6. "The Starry Messenger" (Galileo's universe) 7. "The Majestic Cloc...(展开全部)

Dr. Bronowski's classic history of humankind. Dr. Jacob Bronowski's groundbreaking book The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through its understanding of science. First published in 1973, it is considered one of the first works of "popular science", illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his ...(展开全部)

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined...(展开全部)

（美）考德维纳•史密斯Cordwainer Smith（1913~1966） 享誉国际的科幻小说大师，国际上设立有“考德维纳•史密斯再发现奖”，用以表彰那些对科幻文学有特殊创新贡献的作家，相比一般科幻小说作家，考德维纳•史密斯二战期间在中国、法国、日本等国家都曾居住工作过，熟悉东西方文化，他的创作更蕴含东方哲学与反战思想。 幼时因父亲军人和外交官的职业，考德维纳接触了多种文化，能说六种语言，曾认孙中山先生为其教父，取中文名为林白乐。二战时，他受军方派任前往中国，发挥其外交专长。战后以上校的军衔荣归。然而，考德维纳最不为人知的身份便是科幻小说家，他并不多产，科幻作家的身份也是直到过世后才由女儿公开。 在科幻小说日益成熟、作品如雨后春笋不断涌出的年代，考德维纳·史密斯更偏向严肃的哲学与反思，最早于一九五○年发表的《审视者的徒劳人生》是“人类补完计划宇宙”...(展开全部)

Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An insterstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals tur...(展开全部)