The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar himself, offers vivid descriptions of St. Petersburg and Moscow, of life at court an...(展开全部)

安东尼奥·葛兰西(Antonio Gramsci, 1891年1月23日-1937年4月27日)、意大利共产主义思想家、意大利共产党创始者之一。 葛兰西生于意大利撒丁岛一个小职员家庭，家境贫寒，靠勤工和奖学金读完都灵大学。1913年他加入意大利社会党。1921年1月2 1日葛兰西带领陶里亚蒂、路易吉·隆哥等人，与阿梅迪奥·波迪加为首的社会党左派联合组建了意大利共产党（PCI）。 1922年5月，葛兰西作为意共代表在莫斯科当选为共产国际执委会书记处书记。1924年被共产国际任命为意共总书记，他取道维也纳回国，召开里昂会议，在罗马创办《团结报》，反对墨索里尼的国家法西斯党。1926年10月墨索里尼宣布取缔意共，又不顾葛兰西的国会议员身份，下令逮捕并判二十年徒刑。自1929年起，葛兰西获准在狱中写作。他写下32本《狱中札记》，这是意大利现代思想史上的重要著...(展开全部)

The first ever B-format edition of Tolkien's complete Father Christmas letters, including a new introduction and rare archive materials. Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien's children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father ...(展开全部)

This revised edition of Tolkien's famous illustrated letters from 'Father Christmas' includes extracts and pictures not included in the original publication 25 years ago. Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien's children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketch...(展开全部)

A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65) that the Stoics found their most eloquent advocate. Stoicism,...(展开全部)

约翰·杜威（1859－1952），美国哲学家、教育家，实用主义的集大成者，长期任教于哥伦比亚大学。杜威曾于1919年来华访问，时间长达两年零两个月，对二十世纪上半叶的中国教育界、思想界发生过重大影响。 爱丽丝·Ｃ.杜威 （1859－1927），杜威妻子，1886年毕业于密歇根大学哲学系，曾协助丈夫创办芝加哥大学实验学校，后因病去世。

From Amazon.com Letters and Papers from Prison is a collection of notes and correspondence covering the period from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's arrest in 1943 to his execution by the Gestapo in 1945. The book is probably most famous, and most important, for its idea of "religionless Christianity"--an idea Bonhoeffer did not live long enough fully to develop, but whose timeliness only...(展开全部)

J.R.R.托尔金（J.R.R. Tolkien） 英国文豪，当代奇幻小说鼻祖。他不仅是牛津大学睿智的教授、四个孩子温情的老爸。最重要的身份，托尔金是全球顶礼膜拜的魔幻文学经典《魔戒》（奥斯卡大赢家《指环王三部曲》原著小说）《霍比特人》（2012—2015全球大电影《霍比特人》三部曲原著小说）的原著作者。他的粉丝包括：英国王室、丹麦王室、奥巴马、J.K.罗琳，乔治•马丁，蔡康永，姚晨……其作品系列全球已畅销2.5亿余册。 除《霍比特人》以外，托尔金为自己的孩子创作了《罗佛兰登》（为了安慰失去了心爱玩具的二儿子迈克尔），还将孩子们的玩具熊写进了图文并茂的《幸福先生》。每年圣诞，托尔金为孩子准备礼物之余，更化身圣诞老人寄信给孩子们，勾画北极生活的种种趣事。 最期盼圣诞老爸来信的小儿子克里斯托弗•托尔金（Christopher Tolkien），一生着迷于...(展开全部)

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear. And we, the inhabitants of this world in flux, feel the need to adjust to its tempo by being ‘flexible' and constantly ready to chang...(展开全部)

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear. And we, the inhabitants of this world in flux, feel the need to adjust to its tempo by being ‘flexible' and constantly ready to chang...(展开全部)