Here a leading scholar in constitutional law, Mark Tushnet, challenges hallowed American traditions of judicial review and judicial supremacy, which allow U.S. judges to invalidate "unconstitutional" governmental actions. Many people, particularly liberals, have "warm and fuzzy" feelings about judicial review. They are nervous about what might happen to unprotected constitution...(展开全部)

This book combines breathtaking aerial photographs and exquisite map-drawings of the American landscape with thoughtful essays that explore how various cultures have forged the landscapes in different regions of the country and what the possibilities are for future landscape design. The authors demonstrate that landscape representation is more than descriptive-it can also instr...(展开全部)

America's most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense , Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally been involved in. In Taking the Stand , Dershowitze reveals the ...(展开全部)

美国当代著名的作家、翻译家、汉学家。1970进入哥伦比亚大学攻读人类学博士，机缘巧合之下学习中文，从此爱上中国文化。1972年赴台湾一所寺庙修行，在那里过起暮鼓晨钟的隐居生活，1991年辗转至香港某广播电台工作，并开始长期在中国大陆旅行，撰写了大量介绍中国风土人情的书籍和游记，同时翻译多部佛学经典和诗集，在欧美各国掀起了一股学习中国传统文化的热潮。 比尔关于中国隐者的作品《空谷幽兰》出版后，受到读者的热烈欢迎，一版再版，畅销至今。2010年，他又相继推出了追溯中国禅宗文化和历史的《禅的行囊》和追寻黄河源头的《黄河之旅》。这些关于中国文化之旅的游记作品同样受到了读者的喜爱，并得到安妮宝贝、安意如、陈坤等人的鼎力推荐。 多年来比尔一直坚持深入中国偏远地区寻访人文遗迹，并用胶卷和文字记录旅途的艰险与收获。2013年3月，比尔在湖州霞幕山探访元代诗人石屋清珙...(展开全部)

A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal principles - championing the legal, moral and political rights of the individual against the state - Dworkin demolishes prevailing utilit...(展开全部)

According to the moral error theorist, all moral judgments are mistaken. The world just doesn't contain the properties and relations necessary for these judgments to be true. But what should we actually do if we decided that we are in this radical and unsettling predicament--that morality is just a widespread and heartfelt illusion? One suggestion is to eliminate all talk and t...(展开全部)

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Book of Merit Award! A treasured parent resource since its publication, Taking Charge of ADHD has now been revised and updated to incorporate the most current information on ADHD and its treatment. From internationally renowned ADHD expert Russell A. Barkley, the book empowers parents by arming them with the up-t...(展开全部)

除了卡尔维诺还有谁能如此准确和优美的捕捉普通人生活中的一个个瞬间，并将现实和幻想熔于一炉？一个面包店里的小偷，一个小酒馆里的狂热夜晚，一个陷入性幻想的年轻士兵，一个游泳时发现比基尼泳衣掉了下半截的中产阶级妇女--所有这些都被卡尔维诺的如花妙笔写成了一篇篇杰出探索人类内部复杂世界的小说。在这些二十世纪四五十年代的杰作中，卡尔维诺描写了当对爱的自我欺骗和幻觉（经常是自我恋爱）被揭破时，那些觉悟和警醒的瞬间。Harcourt Brace Jovanovich1983年英语第一版，William Weaver， Archivald Colquhoun， 和Peggy Wright翻译。 Who but Italo Calvino could blend realism and illusion to capture so precisely and so e...(展开全部)