迈克·孔恰尔（Mike Konczal） 美国著名智库罗斯福研究所宏观经济分析团队主任，专研经济学、不平等以及公共权力在民主中的作用。他与约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨合著了《改写美国经济规则》。他是一位受欢迎的美国经济评论员，曾出现在CNN、MSNBC、All Things Considered、Planet Money和Lovett or Leave It上。

Born in poverty in India, Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) became a leading spiritual and philosophical thinker whose ideas continue to influence us today. George Bernard Shaw declared that he was the most beautiful human being he had ever seen and Aldous Huxley was one of his close friends. Whether debating politics with Nehru, discussing theories with Rupert Sheldrake and Iris ...(展开全部)

Krishnamurti shows how people can free themselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected, no matter what their age--opening the door to transforming society and their relationships.

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson），生于1943年，先后担任《今日种族》《新社会》等多家杂志的主编和副主编，《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》等多家报刊的记者和撰稿人。1983年成为国际艺术代理商，多次揭发轰动世界的艺术界丑闻，曾亲自追踪查访大量窃取欧洲古艺术宝藏的犯罪团伙；1997年起任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员。其著述颇丰，代表作有《德国天才》《20世纪思想史》《大分离：旧大陆与新大陆的历史与人性》《卡拉瓦乔的阴谋》等。

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson），生于1943年，先后担任《今日种族》《新社会》等多家杂志的主编和副主编，《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》等多家报刊的记者和撰稿人。1983年成为国际艺术代理商，多次揭发轰动世界的艺术界丑闻，曾亲自追踪查访大量窃取欧洲古艺术宝藏的犯罪团伙；1997年起任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员。其著述颇丰，代表作有《德国天才》《20世纪思想史》《大分离：旧大陆与新大陆的历史与人性》《卡拉瓦乔的阴谋》等。

In this ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a single, unified, and overarching theory of freedom. A puzzling topic, freedom extends from the individual and the metaphysical (i.e. free will) to the social and the political, yet a theory connecting these two realms has yet to be devised. In an elegant, accessible manner, Pettit presents a survey of available theories of freedom,...(展开全部)

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Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)

The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with America? A winner of the Orwell Prize...(展开全部)