The author of The Age of Unreason, The Empty Raincoat, and The Elephant and the Flea, shares more of his best-selling brand of wisdom concerning the big choices in life. In Charles Handy’s most ambitious book yet, the well-known business guru draws on the lessons of his own life to help us map out the main stages of our lives, and shows us how to navigate through the tough dec...(展开全部)

Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for 'egocentric presentism', a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view. A natural thought about our first-person experience is that 'all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me'. Hare, however, goes one step further and claims...(展开全部)

The interviews, essays and articles collected in this book span a quarter of a century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world.' Here is Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always champion...(展开全部)

The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed; and on...(展开全部)

★著者简介 【美】大卫•福斯特·华莱士 （David Foster Wallace，1962—2008），我们这个时代著名的美国作家之一，与《自由》作者乔纳森·弗兰岑并称为“美国文坛双壁”。 大学的毕业论文是他的第一部小说《系统的笤帚》，名作《无尽的玩笑》被著名编辑迈克尔·皮奇惊叹 为“我想出版这本书胜过想呼吸”，并被《时代》周刊评选为1923年以来世界百部最佳英语小说之一。其未完成作品《苍白的国王》入围普利策奖最终名单。本人曾获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。 即使在天才遍地的欧美文坛，华莱士也是个极为特殊的存在。他对哲学的痴迷，对繁复长句子的无尽追求，让他的作品从一诞生就划上了“神作”的符号，爱他的读者对他的作品如痴如醉，即使不了解他的读者，也不得不承认他是个不可复制的天才作家。 ★译者简介 胡凯衡，博士，中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所研究院研究员。

约翰尼斯•费边，著名人类学家，曾在美国西北大学、卫斯理学院等多所大学执教，担任波恩大学、科隆大学、巴黎大学的访问学者。退休前任教于荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学，现居德国。他写了很多批评性的著作，《时间与他者》是他的代表作，这本书是人类学领域的经典著作，改变了人类学家“建立研究对象”的方法。

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect desc...(展开全部)

Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He was elected member of Institut International de Philosophie in 2001 and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2007. From 2001 to 2007 he served as president of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, and he is currently co-editor in chief of ...(展开全部)

Women, Art, and Power-seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history-brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.