The Fundamentals of Reasons offers a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of reasons. The authors explore the twin roles of reasons in explanation and deliberation, show why reasons are so important for a wide range of philosophical issues, and guide the reader through the debates. -First comprehensive introduction to the questions that have been central to philosophica...(展开全部)

The Fundamentals of Reasons offers a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of reasons. The authors explore the twin roles of reasons in explanation and deliberation, show why reasons are so important for a wide range of philosophical issues, and guide the reader through the debates. -First comprehensive introduction to the questions that have been central to philosophica...(展开全部)

This beautifully written book by one of the world's leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Harry Frankfurt writes that it is through caring that we infuse the world with meaning. C...(展开全部)

This book is about normativity and reasons. By the end, however, the subject becomes the relation between self, thought, and world. If we understand normativity, we are on the road to understanding this relation. John Skorupski argues that all normative properties are reducible to reason relations, so that the sole normative ingredient in any normative concept is the concept of...(展开全部)

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. At the cente of the story is Edin...(展开全部)

The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle--Scott's only chronicle--which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose death takes place in 1751. It is the most complex of all Scott's narratives. It is also the most challenging in that it raises in an acute fashio...(展开全部)

扎克斯·穆达 Zakes Mda | 1948— 南非著名剧作家、小说家和诗人，不仅是最受欢迎的南非英语文学作家之一，也是南非文学史上最受关注的黑人作家之一。 穆达一生动荡波折，但笔耕不辍。他创作的戏剧曾在多个国家上演，后结集出版，获得1978年和1979年“阿姆斯特尔年度剧作家奖”，1984年美国戏剧协会“克里斯蒂娜·克劳福德奖”，1995年“桑勒姆文学奖”，1996年南部非洲英语文学最高奖“奥利弗·施赖纳奖”等。他的《扎克斯·穆达戏剧集》被译成南非的11种官方语言出版。 1995年至今，穆达共出版了12部小说，其中《红色之心》（2000）、《与黑共舞》（1995）等小说被译为20多种语言在世界各地广泛传播，为他赢得了包括“英联邦作家奖最佳小说奖”“巴里·罗杰小说奖”“奥莉芙·旭莱纳小说奖”等在内的众多重要文学奖项。2014年，南非政府授予穆达南...(展开全部)

Camugu, recently returned to Johannesburg and disillusioned by the new democracy, moves to the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the English into the ocean. The failed prophecy split the people in two, w...(展开全部)

The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga--yoga adapted to the needs of the individual. - A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher. - This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya that capture the essence of his teachings. Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years ...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.