In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with spec...(展开全部)

以赛亚·伯林，英国哲学家和政治思想史家，20世纪最著名的自由主义知识分子之一。出生于俄国里加的一个犹太人家庭，1920年随父母前往英国。1929年进入牛津大学攻读文学和哲学，1932年获选全灵学院研究员，并在新学院任哲学讲师，其间怀艾耶尔、奥斯汀等参与了日常语言哲学运动。二战期 间，先后在纽约、华盛顿和莫斯科担任外交职务。1946年重回牛津教授哲学课程，并把研究方向转向思想史。1957年成为牛津大学社会与政治理论教授，并获封爵士。1966年至1975年任牛津大学沃尔夫森学院院长。主要著作有《卡尔·马克思》、《概念与范畴》、《自由四论》、《维柯与赫尔德》、《俄国思想家》、《反潮流》、《个人印象》、《人性的曲木》、《现实感》等。

Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia -the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In...(展开全部)

Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau’s ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations and cha...(展开全部)

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction—pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himse...(展开全部)

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman him...(展开全部)

Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau’s ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations and cha...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder a...(展开全部)

别尔嘉耶夫（1874-1948），具有世界影响的俄罗斯宗教哲学家，思想涉及哲学、宗教、文学、政治、人类学和伦理学等领域，被誉为“二十世纪的黑格尔”，“现代最伟大的哲学家和预言家之一”， 俄国给予世界思想界的“第四件礼物”。著述等身，《自由的哲学》、《历史的意义》、《创造的意义》、《人的使命》、《人的奴役与自由》、《俄罗斯思想》等都是其重要著作；以陀思妥耶夫斯基为主要思想源泉，创造了“自由基督教”哲学。1922年被苏俄当局驱逐，先到柏林，后定居巴黎近郊的克拉玛尔，死后葬于克拉玛尔公墓。

马丁·吉尔伯特爵士，生于1936年，著名历史学家，著有81部作品，代表作品有《丘吉尔的一生》《第一次世界大战》《第二次世界大战》《二十世纪史》《大屠杀：犹太人的悲剧》等。他是牛津大学默顿学院名誉研究员、密歇根希尔斯代尔学院荣誉研究员、丘吉尔传记的权威作者。