In this comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual - that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment - Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey. With the rapid growth of the media in recent years, highly visible forums for discussion have multiplied, ...(展开全部)

理查德·A. 波斯纳（Richard A. Posner, 1939- ），先后以第一名毕业于耶鲁大学文学系（1959）和哈佛法学院（1962）。曾任美国联邦最高法院大法官助手、政府律师。联邦司法部副部长助理，总统交通政策特别工作组首席法律顾问等职。后任斯坦福大学和芝加哥大学法学院教授和L.B. 弗雷曼讲座法学教授，联邦上诉法院法官，并担任芝加哥大学法学院法律经济学高级讲座主持人。1981年出任联邦第七巡回区上诉讼院至今（1993-2000年任首席法官），同时担任芝加哥大学法学院高级讲师。 “他是著述最丰的联邦法官，前无古人。任职上诉法院、仍属最高产的法学家之列，同样前无古人。如果以引证率测度影响力，那么当仁不让，波斯纳是世界的最有影响的法学家”（莱西格语）。

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -S...(展开全部)

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -S...(展开全部)

"Wolf's intention is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted their historical accounts of their societies before European intervention. . . . His historical sweep and analytic breadth are astounding, and he gives approximately equal weight to historical 'winners' and 'losers.'" --Michael S. ...(展开全部)

"Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published of 'the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America.'"--Jack P. Greene, "History" "The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller."--David Levin, "William and Mary Quarterly" "A brave and brilliant book...that is the most significant and far-reaching con...(展开全部)

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, "Dude, You're a Fag" sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes mas...(展开全部)

Review An important book about a critical question. (New York Times Book Review ) Loftus is a quiet, sincere, and reliable guide to this important research and its applications. (Times Higher Education Supplement ) Product Description Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. Although psychologists have suspected for dec...(展开全部)

The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts ...(展开全部)

An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the field, and is edited by a top modern Islamic scholar, respected in both the West and the Islamic world. Drawn from a wide range of...(展开全部)