Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work --which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves--Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify as those of the most serious literary art. His novel The Field of Vision brilliantly...(展开全部)

From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted an experiment involving more than 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The men weren't told they had syphilis; they weren't warned of its effects; and they were given no medication stronger than aspirin. The first edition of this book explained how this tragedy happened. Now, a new introduction and conc...(展开全部)

The seventh-century Indian master Candrakīrti lived a life of relative obscurity, only to have his thoughts and writings rejuvenated during the Tibetan transmission of Buddhism. Since then, Candrakīrti has been celebrated as offering the most thorough and accurate vision of Nāgārjuna's view of emptiness which, in turn, most fully represents the final truth of the Buddha's teach...(展开全部)

The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: ...(展开全部)

The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: ...(展开全部)

Science has recently begun to prove what ancient myth and religion have always espoused: There may be such a thing as a life force.</p> Lynne McTaggart, indefatigable investigative journalist, reveals a radical new biological paradigm -- that on our most fundamental level, the human mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment but a packet of pulsating...(展开全部)

Science has recently begun to prove what ancient myth and religion have always espoused: There may be such a thing as a life force.</p> Lynne McTaggart, indefatigable investigative journalist, reveals a radical new biological paradigm -- that on our most fundamental level, the human mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment but a packet of pulsating...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.