"Originally published in French in 1982, this collection is a good representation of the range of Derrida's working styles."--South Atlantic Review

Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means—whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the ways we use translation, from the historical ...(展开全部)

The Inclusion of the Other contains Habermasa s most recent work in political theory and political philosophy. Here Habermas picks up some of the central themes of Between Facts and Norms and elaborates them in relation to current political debates. One of the distinctive features of Habermasa s work has been its approach to the problem of political legitimacy through a sustain...(展开全部)

李德·哈特爵士（Basil H.Liddell Hart，1895-1970），英国军事记者、军事理论家、战略学家。生于法国巴黎。早年就读于英国剑桥大学。第一次世界大战期间服役，任步兵团军官，并曾在战斗中负伤。后来加入英国皇家军事教育协会。一战结束后，先后服务于《英国每日电讯报》（1925-1935）和《英国泰晤士报》（1935-1939），从事军事记者工作。李德·哈特同时也是著名的军事战略家，在军事学上提出了“间接路线”的观念以及涵盖军事以外领域的“大战略”概念，同时他也是现代战争“装甲兵”作战的鼓吹者。李德哈特与克劳塞维兹同时被誉为西方战略思想史中的两位现代战略大师。主要著作有：《大战略——间接路线》、《第一次世界大战战史》、《第二次世界大战战史》、《沙漠之狐隆美尔》等。1966年被英国皇家授予爵士勋章。

Gathering for the first time all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist's dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another. Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Levi-Strauss's early intellectual growth, and between ...(展开全部)

The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell looks at humans as just another interesting species, and muses about why we behave the way we do around our dogs, h...(展开全部)

Gathering for the first time all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist's dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another. Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Levi-Strauss's early intellectual growth, and between ...(展开全部)

While previous studies have concentrated largely upon political concerns, The Augustan Art of Poetry is an exploration of the influence of the Roman Augustan aesthetic on English neo-classical poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At the conclusion of his translation of Virgil, Dryden claims implicitly to have given English poetry the kind of refinement in language...(展开全部)

This is a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, containing all of the important suttas ( Discourses of the Buddha ) on such key Buddhist concepts as the Four Noble Truths, dependent origination, the seven factors of enlightenment, and the Noble Eightfold Path. The Connected Discourses of the Buddha ranks as one of the most inspiring compilations in the Buddhist canon. ...(展开全部)

The Long Discourses of the Buddha is an invaluable collection of the teachings of the Buddha, revealing his gentleness, compassion, and penetrating wisdom. These thirty-four discourses are among the oldest records of the Buddha's original teachings. This book is a companion to The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha, and The Connected Discourses of the Buddha.