In this compelling work, Ariella Azoulay reconsiders the political and ethical status of photography. Describing what she calls "the civil contract of photography," she gives an account of the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings. Azoulay argues that anyone--even a stateless person--who addresses others through photographs or is addressed by phot...(展开全部)

In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer, and including recent developments in game theory and evolution literature, his bo...(展开全部)

In this pithy and highly readable book, Brian Skyrms, a recognised authority on game and decision theory, investigates traditional problems of the social contract in terms of evolutionary dynamics. Game theory is skilfully employed to offer new interpretations of a wide variety of social phenomena, including justice, mutual aid, commitment, convention and meaning. The author es...(展开全部)

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas s...(展开全部)

A collection of photographs from winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition comes from two venerable institutions of the United Kingdom: the Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide. For 49 years, this prestigious exhibition has drawn submissions from around the world. Being shortlisted is something to which n...(展开全部)

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle...(展开全部)

P. S.阿蒂亚（P. S. Atiyah），英国学术院院士（F. B. A）、牛津大学英国法教授和圣约翰学院院士。是英国最著名的法学学者之一，其研究领域涵盖侵权法、合同法、法理学和法制史等，且他在所有这些研究领域中都有极高建树。 范雪飞，法学博士、西南政法大学教授。2009年获法学博士学位，2019年被评为教授，次年被聘为博士生导师。2013年至2014年受国家留学基金委资助到德国马克斯-普朗克外国私法与国际私法研究所访学。出版专著译著数部，在《法律科学》《法学评论》《现代法学》《北方法学》《中德私法研究》《浙江社会科学》《人大法律评论》等刊物发表学术论文三十余篇。

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Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book "Le Contrat Naturel," Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants.World history is often referred to as the story of human conflict. Those struggles that are seen as our history mus...(展开全部)

In this remarkable contribution to photographic criticism and psychoanalytic literature, Ulrich Baer traces the hitherto overlooked connection between the experience of trauma and the photographic image. Instead of treating trauma as a photographic "theme," Baer examines the striking parallel between those moments arrested mechanically by photography and those arrested experien...(展开全部)