This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts-whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereology. Powers are often assumed to be atomic; and yet what they can do—and what can happen to them—is complex. But if powers are simp...(展开全部)

The Powers of Sensibility: Aesthetic Politics through Adorno, Foucault, and Ranciere explores the role aesthetic resources can play in an emancipatory politics. Michael Feola engages both critical theory and unruly political movements to challenge familiar anxieties about the intersection of politics and aesthetics. He shows how perception, sensibility, and feeling may contribu...(展开全部)

Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "remembers" things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. And in what becomes a treacherous journey for freedom, Gav's greatest test...(展开全部)

The third book in Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore series--a riveting companion to "Voices" and "Gifts"--is an epic story of survival and self-discovery that speaks to the power of new beginnings and, most importantly, of hope.

The third book in Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore series--a riveting companion to "Voices" and "Gifts"--is an epic story of survival and self-discovery that speaks to the power of new beginnings and, most importantly, of hope.

Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "remembers" things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. And in what becomes a treacherous journey for freedom, Gav's greatest test...(展开全部)

阎学通，清华大学国际关系研究院院长，世界和平论坛秘书长，清华大学首批文科资深教授，俄罗斯科学院外籍院士。他著作颇丰，其中包括普林斯顿大学出版社出版的Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power。和中信出版社出版的《历史的惯性》等，后者版权输出至印度、韩国、日本、阿尔巴尼亚、英国等，产生了广泛的国际影响力。

阎学通，清华大学国际关系研究院院长，世界和平论坛秘书长，清华大学首批文科资深教授，俄罗斯科学院外籍院士。他著作颇丰，其中包括普林斯顿大学出版社出版的Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power。和中信出版社出版的《历史的惯性》等，后者版权输出至印度、韩国、日本、阿尔巴尼亚、英国等，产生了广泛的国际影响力。

Aristotle is considered by many to be the founder of 'faculty psychology'-the attempt to explain a variety of psychological phenomena by reference to a few inborn capacities. In The Powers of Aristotle's Soul, Thomas Kjeller Johansen investigates his main work on psychology, the De Anima, from this perspective. He shows how Aristotle conceives of the soul's capacities and how h...(展开全部)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy, first published in 1987, explores the politics and economics of the Great Powers from 1500 to 1980 and the reason for their decline. It then continues by forecasting the positions of China, Japan, the European Economic Community (EEC), the Soviet Union and the United...(展开全部)