本书是美国著名经济学家 克鲁格曼 的最新力作。他在书中回顾了将近一个世纪的美国历史，从镀金年代的政治经济，直到布什年代的经济停滞。他认为，这是保守主义运动掌控美国政府的必然结果，婴儿潮时代美国中产阶级的成长则是受益于小 罗斯福 的新政。克鲁格曼指出，这两种方向的发展都非自然演进的结果，都是由组织化的政治运动所引导的，尤其是 20 世纪 70 年代以后不断加剧的两极分化和社会不公。他在书中深入地探讨了美国主张自由放任 资本主义 的 “ 保守主义运动 ” 对美国经济、社会和政治的不良影响，呼吁重新展开社会政策的公共辩论，主张政府应发挥好 维护社会稳定和社会公正的作用，同时警醒世人不要冷漠对待社会经济不平等议题，以致错失改革良机。 "The most consistent and courageo...(展开全部)

What has gone wrong with America? With The Conscience of a Liberal, best-selling author Paul Krugman points the way to a new New Deal. America emerged from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal with strong democratic values and broadly shared prosperity. But for the past thirty years American politics has been dominated by a conservative movement determined to undermine the New Deal's ...(展开全部)

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confront...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·布利什 美国著名科幻作家、评论家。 詹姆斯·布利什很早就接触并喜欢科幻小说，九岁时写了第一篇科幻故事，中学时加入著名科幻迷社团“月球居民”（艾萨克·阿西莫夫也是该社团成员之一）。布利什曾加入美国陆军并担任医官，第二次世界大战结束后，他很快成为一名职业科幻作家。1958年，布利什的长篇小说《事关良心》获得世界科幻大奖雨果奖（该作于2004年再获雨果回顾奖）；1956 ~ 1959年间创作的“飞城”系列，后被美国科幻作家协会评选为1965年前的最佳小说之一。2002年，詹姆斯·布利什入列“科幻奇幻名人堂”。 作为科幻“黄金时代”的象征之一，詹姆斯·布利什的作品带有强烈的进取精神和科技人文精神。翻开他的小说，我们将重温“黄金时代”的激情。

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronte...(展开全部)

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronte...(展开全部)

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confront...(展开全部)

Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism. Whether as economic interest, sexual drive, or the basic longing for recognition, desire is accepted as a core component of our modern self-identities, and something we ought to cultivate. But this h...(展开全部)

In this timely and important book, a leading legal and political philosopher examines the renewed possibilities for the spread of democratic liberalism now that the Cold War has ended and new orders emerge after the recent revolutions in Eastern Europe. Bruce A. Ackerman argues that the creation of a democratic federal Europe and new constitutions for countries in Eastern Europ...(展开全部)

Are psychopaths ‘evil’ and untreatable, or do they suffer from a form of mental illness comparable to schizophrenia? Do they have free will? Do we? In this at once terrifying and exhilarating account, neuroscientist Kent Kiehl guides us through the dark world of a psychopath’s mind, a disconnected place where emotion is dead and guilt is absent. Drawing on groundbreaking resear...(展开全部)