Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged by cognitive psychologists. The forces that create and constrain these populations help us understand so much that is puzzling in ...(展开全部)

"Styles of Radical Will," Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in "Against Interpretation" with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.

This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi", written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating account of America's identity and future, a robust and surprising discussion of ...(展开全部)

耶胡迪・梅纽因在七岁首次登上音乐厅舞台时便震惊了音乐界，此后便一直是他那个时代的传奇人物。他不仅是位杰出的音乐家，而且是位作家、历史学家和人道主义者。乔治・斯坦纳曾评价道：“梅纽因的光芒……已使自己诠释音乐的过程成为一种彻底的情感表达和人性的体现。”梅纽因于1916年出生于美国的一个俄裔犹太人家庭。他十岁时在巴黎首次面对十分挑剔的欧洲音乐精英；十二岁时，他便在柏林同布鲁诺・瓦尔特合作演出。作为小提琴演奏大师和著名指挥家，梅纽因的作品被录音的次数超过了20世纪的所有音乐家。他曾在世界备地的音乐厅里演奏，并在第二次世界大战期间活跃在各个盟军战区，为将士们献艺。梅纽因充分意识到音乐神童所面临的问题，于是在英国萨里郡的斯托克达伯农创办了一所音乐学校，为来自世界各地的天才音乐学子提供学院教育和最好的音乐专业培养。然而，耶胡迪・梅纽因的兴趣远不止局限于小提琴家、...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from that great work in every relevant respect. Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes, Paine writes with the vigour of a self-taught mast-maker and exciseman....(展开全部)

Library of Liberal Arts title.

At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington. AUDI. VIDE. TACE. The Catenan Republic - the Hierarchy - may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orp...(展开全部)

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical. Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insigh...(展开全部)

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical. Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insigh...(展开全部)

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)