The concept of a right is fundamental to moral, political, and legal thinking, but much of the use of that concept is selective and fragmentary: it is common merely to appeal to this or that intuitively plausible attribution of rights as needed for purposes of argument. In The Realm of Rights Judith Thomson provides a full-scale, systematic theory of human and social rights, br...(展开全部)

No modern astronomer made a more profound contribution to our understanding of the cosmos than did Edwin Hubble, who first conclusively demonstrated that the universe is expanding. Basing his theory on the observation of the change in distanct galaxies, called red shift, Hubble showed that this is a Doppler effect, or alteration in the wavelength of light, resulting from the r...(展开全部)

In less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, comprised entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from one another. We must thank, in part, Edwin P. Hubble - one of the greatest observational astronomers of the 20th century. In 1936, Hubble described his principa...(展开全部)

“…a landmark anthology, which establishes that the crafting of brilliant short impossible crime fiction is not an exclusively Anglo-American endeavor.” Publishers Weekly (Starred review) Here is a groundbreaking collection of 26 impossible crime stories from over 20 countries, demonstrating the global reach of this most fiendishly ingenious tale. Several stories appear here for...(展开全部)

作者|马丁·卡帕罗斯 Martín Caparrós 西班牙语世界最杰出和最有影响力的作家之一。他出版了15本获奖图书，目前在康奈尔大学任教授。他还定期为《纽约时报》西班牙版撰写专栏。代表作《饥饿》已在全球25个国家出版。2023年，卡帕罗斯获得了西语新闻界大奖奥尔特加·加塞特职业生涯奖，被誉为“全才记者和拉丁美洲最佳历史纪实者之一”。 译者|侯健 文学博士，西安外国语大学欧洲学院西班牙语系副教授，拉丁美洲研究中心负责人，硕士生导师，中国翻译协会专家会员，2022豆瓣年度译者。译有《从马尔克斯到略萨》《普林斯顿文学课》《五个街角》《略萨谈博尔赫斯》《艰辛时刻》《两种孤独》《科幻精神》《萨拉米斯的士兵》《终了之前》《沙漠中的战斗》《33场革命》等书。 译者|夏婷婷 上海大学外国语学院西班牙语教师，上海大学全球问题研究院研究员，主要研究方向为拉丁美洲史，...(展开全部)

作者|马丁·卡帕罗斯 Martín Caparrós 西班牙语世界最杰出和最有影响力的作家之一。他出版了15本获奖图书，目前在康奈尔大学任教授。他还定期为《纽约时报》西班牙版撰写专栏。代表作《饥饿》已在全球25个国家出版。2023年，卡帕罗斯获得了西语新闻界大奖奥尔特加·加塞特职业生涯奖，被誉为“全才记者和拉丁美洲最佳历史纪实者之一”。 译者|侯健 文学博士，西安外国语大学欧洲学院西班牙语系副教授，拉丁美洲研究中心负责人，硕士生导师，中国翻译协会专家会员，2022豆瓣年度译者。译有《从马尔克斯到略萨》《普林斯顿文学课》《五个街角》《略萨谈博尔赫斯》《艰辛时刻》《两种孤独》《科幻精神》《萨拉米斯的士兵》《终了之前》《沙漠中的战斗》《33场革命》等书。 译者|夏婷婷 上海大学外国语学院西班牙语教师，上海大学全球问题研究院研究员，主要研究方向为拉丁美洲史，...(展开全部)

In this superbly illustrated volume, distinguished Egyptologist Zahi Hawass guides you through the architectural landscape of ancient Egypt. From houses and palaces, to the temples of the gods, to the tombs, hundreds of photographs and a compelling text unveil the mysteries of ancient Egypt as unearthed through major excavations. As it leads you on a tour of important sites—th...(展开全部)

It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women's Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his bod...(展开全部)

The great French Marxist philosopher weighs up the contributions of the three major critics of modernity Henri Lefebvre saw Marx as an ‘unavoidable, necessary, but insufficient starting point’, and always insisted on the importance of Hegel to understanding Marx. Metaphilosophy also suggested the significance he ascribed to Nietzsche, in the ‘realm of shadows’ through which ph...(展开全部)

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing—n...(展开全部)