Nihilism is not an affliction to be overcome, but a vector of intellectual discovery which philosophy should try to push to its ultimate conclusion. Rather than trying to safeguard the experience of meaning-construed as the defining feature of human existence-from the incursions of science, philosophy should strive to demystify it and deploy its considerable speculative resourc...(展开全部)

Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book re...(展开全部)

Not since World War II has Japan faced a crisis like the one before it now. An apparently endless recession has weakened the foundations of the traditional family and severed the bond between Japan's corporations and employees. Unruly children turn classrooms into battlefields. Ultranationalist pride and xenophobia are celebrated in best-selling comic books and championed by...(展开全部)

Through thick veils of opaque, incantatory prose, fragments of the narrator's life emerge in this cryptic novel, winner of the Prix Medicis in 1969, by a French feminist and critic. The title tells it all: from beginning to end we are locked inside the mind and memory, dream-life and fantasy of the narrator as she mourns the untimely death of her venerated father. So submerged ...(展开全部)

For over 20 years now, Jim Woodring has delighted, touched, and puzzled readers around the world with his lush, wordless tales of "Frank." Weathercraft is Woodring's first full-length graphic novel set in this world-indeed, Woodring's first graphic novel, period -and it features the same hypnotically gorgeous linework and mystical iconography. As it happens, Frank has only a br...(展开全部)

Keep Your Head Down. Don't Get Noticed. Or Else. I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own…until I accidentally start a rebellion and beco...(展开全部)

玛丽亚•斯奈德（1969- ）美国科幻/奇幻作家、《纽约时报》畅销书作家，著有“立方体世界”系列、“研究”系列、“灵魂探测者”系列、“治疗者”系列等多部作品。 玛丽亚原为气象学家，在厌倦了这份工作后开始写作。她的处女作《毒药研究》于2005年10月出版，入选当年《轨迹》杂志推荐阅读书单，并赢得了2006年的康普特•克洛科奖最佳处女作奖。 除写作之外，玛丽亚的兴趣还包括旅行、摄影、制作首饰和打排球。她目前与家人和一只名叫瓦莱克的黑猫一同住在美国宾夕法尼亚州。

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Trella's life is consumed by her job--testing, cleaning, and making sure the pipes in her world are working; but Trella's solitary, peaceful life is disturbed when she encounters a prophet who promises a better life for her people and soon finds herself in the middle of a rebellion.

Keep Your Head Down. Don't Get Noticed. Or Else. I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own…until I accidentally start a rebellion and bec...(展开全部)