From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction. Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and ...(展开全部)

'Required reading for all of humanity' Oprah Winfrey 'An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.' Dwight Garner, The New York Times 'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, uns...(展开全部)

'Required reading for all of humanity' Oprah Winfrey 'An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.' Dwight Garner, The New York Times 'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, uns...(展开全部)

约翰•皮尔格（John Pilger）在澳大利亚悉尼长大。他既是一位战地记者，又是作家和电影人，曾两度荣获英国新闻界最高荣誉“年度记者”（Journalist of the Year）。皮尔格足迹遍及世界各地，最令人瞩目的报道作品发自柬埔寨（本书中有节录）和越南。皮尔格还曾荣获“年度国际记者”（International Reporter of the Year）和“联合国媒体和平奖”（UN Media Peace Prize）等众多奖项。他的纪录片曾经获得法国“无国界记者”（REPORTER SANS FRONTIÈRES）大奖、艾美奖（Emmy Award），以及英国电影电视艺术学院（British Academy of Film and Television Arts）颁发的“理查德•丁布尔比奖”（Richard Dimbleby Award）...(展开全部)

约翰•皮尔格（John Pilger）在澳大利亚悉尼长大。他既是一位战地记者，又是作家和电影人，曾两度荣获英国新闻界最高荣誉“年度记者”（Journalist of the Year）。皮尔格足迹遍及世界各地，最令人瞩目的报道作品发自柬埔寨（本书中有节录）和越南。皮尔格还曾荣获“年度国际记者”（International Reporter of the Year）和“联合国媒体和平奖”（UN Media Peace Prize）等众多奖项。他的纪录片曾经获得法国“无国界记者”（REPORTER SANS FRONTIÈRES）大奖、艾美奖（Emmy Award），以及英国电影电视艺术学院（British Academy of Film and Television Arts）颁发的“理查德•丁布尔比奖”（Richard Dimbleby Award）...(展开全部)

Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium --...(展开全部)

Celebrated for his masterful brushstrokes, depictions of nature, and use of translucent blue-green pigments, Qiu Ying is the least known of the four Ming Dynasty masters of the Wu School. This elegantly produced and groundbreaking monograph, the first Western-language publication devoted to the painter, draws on new scholarship to offer a deep and rich appreciation of Qiu Ying'...(展开全部)

Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they en...(展开全部)

The philosophy problem of identity and the related problem of change go back to the ancient Greek philosophers and fascinated later figures including Leibniz, Locke and Hume. Heraclitus argued that one could not swim in the same river twice because new waters were ever flowing in. When is a river not the same river? If one removes one plank at a time when is a ship no longer a ...(展开全部)