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)

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)

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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)

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)

Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only half the story. The sexual contract which establishes modern patriarchy and the political right of men over women is never mentio...(展开全部)

In this remarkably original work of political philosophy, one of today's foremost feminist theorist challenges the way contemporary society functions by questioning the standard interpretation of an idea that is deeply embedded in American and British political thought: that our rights and freedoms derive from the social contract explicated by Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau and in...(展开全部)

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state an...(展开全部)

阿瑟·黑利（Arthur Hailey），1920出生于英格兰贝德福德郡卢顿区，1939年第二次世界大战爆发后，加入英国皇家空军，直至1947年定居加拿大。他所出版的作品在欧美国家获得了巨大的成功，被誉为“行业小说之王”。他的11部作品被翻译成40种文字，总印数超过1.7亿册。阿瑟·黑利称自己的大脑“无时无刻不在编织故事”，他擅长把日常的故事写成引人入胜的小说。他常以美国社会中的一些重要行业为故事背景，如金融业、医疗行业、交通运输、新闻传媒等。故事情节多半围绕先进与落后、革新与保守之间的斗争展开，主人公多为精通专业技术、事业心强、果敢坚决的中产阶级知识分子。他的作品在欧美国家获得了巨大的成功，其中《大饭店》甚至成了酒店管理专业学生必读的“教科书”。