Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figur...(展开全部)

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

伊芙．恩斯勒（Eve Ensler） 是國際暢銷作家，也是著名劇作家，曾獲《新聞週刊》（Newsweek）評選為「一百五十位改變世界的女人」之一。她的戲劇創作包括《陰道獨白》（The Vagina Monologues）、《必要目標》（Necessary Targets）和《好身體》（The Good Body），書籍著作有：《終於不安全》（Insecure at Last），以及榮登紐約時報（New York Times）暢銷榜的《我是情緒性的生物》（I Am an Emotional Creature），她並將這本書改編為舞台劇《情緒性生物》（Emotional Creature）。 此外，恩斯勒也是V-Day運動的創始人。V-Day是終止對女性施暴的全球運動，迄今已經為全球各地的婦女組織和社會運動者募集超過九千萬美元，也促成了另一全球性運動「十...(展开全部)

Widely praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio achieves a new understanding of consciousness by asking-and answering-profound questions: How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage, a great sci...(展开全部)

Widely praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio achieves a new understanding of consciousness by asking-and answering-profound questions: How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage, a great sci...(展开全部)