Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic progra...(展开全部)

The third title in the Jameson Books-Students for Liberty Series, this is a collection of essays by eminent political economists from around the world. Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? The previous generation and its predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling en...(展开全部)

编自小雷蒙牧迪博士的畅销书《生命不息》（Life After Life），探讨濒临死亡经验之人所经历的过程。

Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as something at once scientific and mystical, in the return of vitalisms of all types, and in the pervasive politicization of life....(展开全部)

Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as something at once scientific and mystical, in the return of vitalisms of all types, and in the pervasive politicization of life....(展开全部)

简介：那一年她死了。在死前，她说，“如果这是一个梦，那我不过就是从梦里醒过来罢了，对不对？”一个盛行的游戏让人避而远之。这个游戏只会选择自己想要邀请的人。徐远之被‘光荣’的邀请到了这个游戏当中，进入游戏后，她听到的第一句话就是——“欢迎来到绝命，我是你的指导官223。”

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. "After the End of Art" presents Danto's first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the na...(展开全部)

罗伯特·D. 帕特南（Robert D. Putnam），当代西方著名政治学家，现任哈佛大学国际事务研究中心主任，肯尼迪政府学院公共政策马尔林讲座教授。他的主要研究领域是政治学、国际政治和公共政策，发表的著作包括《手拉手：西方七国峰会》、《独自打保龄：美国社会资本的衰减》。《使民主动转起来》这部专著奠定了帕特南在西方学术界的权威地位，他因之被誉为是与托克维尔、帕雷托和韦伯齐名的学术大家。