In The Art of Scientific Investigation, originally published in 1950, W.I.B. Beveridge explores the development of the intuitive side in scientists. The author's object is to show how the minds of humans can best be harnessed to the processes of scientific discovery. This book therefore centers on the "human factor"; the individual scientist. The book reveals the basic principl...(展开全部)

In The Art of Scientific Investigation, originally published in 1950, W.I.B. Beveridge explores the development of the intuitive side in scientists. The author's object is to show how the minds of humans can best be harnessed to the processes of scientific discovery. This book therefore centers on the "human factor"; the individual scientist. The book reveals the basic principl...(展开全部)

These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for "Philosophical Investigations", possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The "Blue Book" is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-1934 and the "Brown Book" was a draft for what eventually became the growth of the first part of "Philosophica...(展开全部)

In this far-ranging and innovative study Christopher Berry explores the meanings and ramifications of the idea of luxury. Insights from political theory, philosophy and intellectual history are utilised in a sophisticated conceptual analysis that is complemented by a series of specific historical investigations. Dr Berry suggests that the value attached to luxury is a crucial c...(展开全部)

1958年1月14日，在日本茨城縣水戸市的千波湖邊發生了一起謀殺案件，這名身份未明的男子指紋被畫上數刀、顏面遭硫酸嚴重侵蝕難以辨認。當地的警方在現場附近的公廁內發現印有淺草浪花屋旅館的毛巾，而將辦案目標轉向東京。隔日，來自東京的兩名刑警協同展開調查，隨同的還有一名攝影師——渡部雄吉。這是第一次，攝影師被授權陪同警方辦案。 原本被認為是一起單一的謀殺案件，然而隨著警方的腳步，漸漸拼湊起更深層的駭人故事。渡部雄吉的鏡頭下記錄警方一一尋訪各個相關人士，從煙霧瀰漫的警廳為起點，探詢東京的底層社區、酒吧、巷弄與醫院，追尋兇手所遺留的蛛絲馬跡。最終撥雲見日，挖掘出相互關聯的1955年福松夫婦命案與1956年的一起無名焚屍案，兇手全指向不停殺害他人以換取身份的大西克己。 攝影師渡部雄吉將這些所參與記錄下的追查過程，發表於該年的雜誌當中。然而隨著時間流逝，這起社會案...(展开全部)

"The City," first published in 1925 and reprinted here in its entirety, is a cross-section of concerns of the Chicago urban school during the period of its most intense activity. Park and Burgess realized that ecological and economic factors were converted into a social organization by the traditions and aspirations of city dwellers. In their efforts to achieve objectivity, the...(展开全部)

Gatto analyzes why mass compulsory schooling is unreformable. Having taught in a Manhattan school district for 30 years, Gatto speaks from experience when offering this speculative history cum personal investigation. Arguing that public school allow psychic violence, teach numbness, and force the deterioration of parental responsibilities, Gatto advocates that children spend le...(展开全部)

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the ident...(展开全部)