Winner of the 2010 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award (Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association) Magnetic Resonance Imaging, not so long ago a diagnostic tool of last resort, has become pervasive in the landscape of consumer medicine; images of the forbidding tubes, with their promises of revelation, surround us in commercials and on billboards. Ma...(展开全部)

In Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner; it feels like a medium that is now taking its plac...(展开全部)

玛格丽特·阿特伍德，被称为加拿大“文学女王”，迄今为止已出版超过35部享誉国际的小说、诗歌和论文集。她的作品《可以吃的女人》、《猫眼》、《别名格蕾斯》和《羚羊与秧鸡》均登上布克奖候选单。2000年她以长篇小说《盲刺客》获得了英语文学最高奖项布克奖。 布克奖的授奖词称：“当玛格丽特·阿特伍德搬开压在文字与心灵上的顽石，展现在世人面前的，是一个既广阔无垠又纤毫毕现的世界，一个突破了时空，性别和文体的世界。 在此之前，阿特伍德早已获得过加拿大总督文学奖，英联邦文学奖，哈佛大学百年奖章，《悉尼时报》文学杰出成就奖，意大利Premio Mondale奖等，并被多次提名诺贝尔文学奖。 她是加拿大皇家学会会员，并曾被授予挪威文学成就勋章和法兰西艺术与文学骑士勋章。她不审美国艺术科学院院的外籍荣誉院士。玛格丽特·阿特伍德现居多伦多。

In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan war after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumours, to maintain the ...(展开全部)

The internationally acclaimed Myths series brings together some of the finest writers of our time to provide a contemporary take on some of our most enduring stories. Here, the timeless and universal tales that reflect and shape our lives–mirroring our fears and desires, helping us make sense of the world–are revisited, updated, and made new. Margaret Atwood’s Pene...(展开全部)

英国著名当代女作家。作品包括三本获奖作品《橘子不是唯一的水果》《激情》《区分樱桃的性别》等。现在活跃在国际文坛，发表大量的诗歌、小说、评论等。

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly pos...(展开全部)

In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that i...(展开全部)

Joseph Campbell, the worlds foremost authority on mythology,and Bill Moyers, one of most distinguished journalists, offer a brilliant combination of wisdom and wit. Joseph Campbell explains to Bill Moyers in a six part series for television interview,how myths are our ties to the past, and how they help us understand ourselves and our world. Topics from modern marriage to virgi...(展开全部)

The author of the bestselling Hero With a Thousand Faces touches on subjects ranging from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, in an intriguing and entertaining attempt to explain our world.