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)

托马斯·里德（Thomas Reid，1710年4月26日－1796年10月7日）是18世纪苏格兰启蒙运动时期哲学家，苏格兰常识学派的创始人。里德开始任教于亚伯丁大学，后到格拉斯哥大学接任亚当·斯密成为该校的道德哲学讲座教授。

托马斯·里德（Thomas Reid，1710年4月26日－1796年10月7日）是18世纪苏格兰启蒙运动时期哲学家，苏格兰常识学派的创始人。里德开始任教于亚伯丁大学，后到格拉斯哥大学接任亚当·斯密成为该校的道德哲学讲座教授。

托马斯·里德（Thomas Reid，1710年4月26日－1796年10月7日）是18世纪苏格兰启蒙运动时期哲学家，苏格兰常识学派的创始人。里德开始任教于亚伯丁大学，后到格拉斯哥大学接任亚当·斯密成为该校的道德哲学讲座教授。

托马斯·里德（Thomas Reid，1710年4月26日－1796年10月7日）是18世纪苏格兰启蒙运动时期哲学家，苏格兰常识学派的创始人。里德开始任教于亚伯丁大学，后到格拉斯哥大学接任亚当·斯密成为该校的道德哲学讲座教授。

Shils, Edwar，美国著名社会学家、教育家、功能主义学派的领袖人物之一，亦是研究Max Weber的专家。现任芝加哥大学教授。 希尔斯本人的政治立场是保守主义的，他用毕生的精力来捍卫传统的研究型大学,认为传统的研究型大学在现代社会中发挥着重要的功能。其作品着重探讨学术自由与外部权威之间的矛盾关系，及学者的政治自由问题，为学术自由的研究开辟了新的视野。 著有：《知识份子与当权者》（The Intellectuals and the Powers and Other Essays.1972 ）、《论传统》（On Tradition.1981）等。

Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is increasingly seen as a philosopher of lasting importance and as a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Intellectual Powers is his greatest work. It covers far more philosophical ground than the earlier, more popular Inquiry. Intellectual Powers and its companion volume, Essays on the Active Powers of Man, constitute the fullest, most original...(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.