In this volume, the renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeeply personal interventions regarding the current health emergency. Alongside and beyond accusations and exact descriptions, these texts variously reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health, the mode...(展开全部)

WELCOME TO NYC’S HOTTEST UNDERGROUND PARTIES If you missed last night’s party, here’s your VIP pass to New York City’s deliciously sexy club scene. It’s a voyeuristic spin with today’s downtown demimonde, where hipsters, rockers, celebrities, and drag queens meet and misbehave with unabashed enthusiasm. Bared flesh, intertwined tongues, and de rigueur attitudes are all captured...(展开全部)

Relates the story of the author's grandparents and parents, who, though not famous, helped build the United States.

How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run—if he could even walk without a stick – and Superior Glokta needs answers before the Gurkish army comes knocking at the gates. Northmen have spilled over the border of Ang...(展开全部)

How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run—if he could even walk without a stick – and Superior Glokta needs answers before the Gurkish army comes knocking at the gates. Northmen have spilled over the border of Ang...(展开全部)

'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' - David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Uber's cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders ...(展开全部)

'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' - David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Uber's cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders ...(展开全部)

“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg.” That’s Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free. He’s right about the critics: the book was a finalist for the National...(展开全部)