Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In "Mind and World", based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, John McDowell offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. He illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy - the insidious persistence of dualism - in his discussion of empirical thought. Much as...(展开全部)

Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In "Mind and World", based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, John McDowell offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. He illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy - the insidious persistence of dualism - in his discussion of empirical thought. Much as...(展开全部)

A compelling challenge to conventional thought' - "New York Times". In this newly updated edition of his classic text on the "economics of abundance", Galbraith lays bare the hazards of individual and social complacency about economic inequality. It is as relevant now, with the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, as when it was first published 40 years ago. Galbraith chall...(展开全部)

Review An important book about a critical question. (New York Times Book Review ) Loftus is a quiet, sincere, and reliable guide to this important research and its applications. (Times Higher Education Supplement ) Product Description Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. Although psychologists have suspected for dec...(展开全部)

Review An important book about a critical question. (New York Times Book Review ) Loftus is a quiet, sincere, and reliable guide to this important research and its applications. (Times Higher Education Supplement ) Product Description Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. Although psychologists have suspected for dec...(展开全部)

Jack Williamson的Humanoids科幻小说系列科普： * ①、中短篇<With Folded Hands ...>，首次发表于John W. Campbell, Jr.主编的著名科幻杂志<Astounding Science Fiction>1947年7月刊，与②a的标题是合成标题； * ②a、长篇连载<... And Searching Mind>，首次发表于杂志<Astounding Science Fiction>1948年3月、4月和5月刊，与①的标题是合成标题； * ②b、<... And Searching Mind>以单行本发行，长篇小说标题<The Humanoids>，由Simon & Schuster出版社于1949年首次出版发行，由福建少年儿童出版社于1992年2月出版发行中译本《机器服务人》； * ③、因①和②...(展开全部)

The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to post-war chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marsh...(展开全部)

The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to post-war chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marsh...(展开全部)

The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts ...(展开全部)

The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts ...(展开全部)