One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam ...(展开全部)

A beautiful blend of history, biography, and philosophy, One from Many not only challenges the way we think about organizations, management, and our relationship to the natural world, it's a rollicking fine story as well.

In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe versus Wade decision, women seeking abortions had to subject themelves to illegal, unregulated abortionists. This study reveals the presence of a secret organization, code-named "Jane", which provided an alternative. Here the women tell their own stories. A former member of "Jane", Laura Kaplan draws on her personal recollec...(展开全部)

Book Description Dee Hock's fascinating story of the creation of VISA was first told in "Birth of the Chaordic Age"; now, "One From Many" includes updated examples of today's most prominent chaordic organisations. "One From Many" makes a compelling case that all organisations are fundamentally based on flawed seventeenth century concepts that are no longer relevant to the vast...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Cosmologists ask many difficult questions and often come up with strange answers. In this engagingly written but difficult book， Vilenkin， a Tufts University physicist， does exactly this， discussing the creatio

A Leading Figure in the Development of the New Cosmology Explains What It All Means Among his peers, Alex Vilenkin is regarded as one of the most imaginative and creative cosmologists of our time. His contributions to our current understanding of the universe include a number of novel ideas, two of which--eternal cosmic inflation and the quantum creation of the universe from no...(展开全部)

The world’s largest country is now a constant topic of fascination or fear in the West, producing an ever increasing literature of scholarship, reportage and tourism. In this volume, the differing voices and views of leading Chinese thinkers can for the first time be heard in English translation, debating the future of their society and its place in the world. One China, Many P...(展开全部)

RA: 无限的东西不能是许多个，因为许多(many-ness)是一个有限的概念。要有无限，你必须辨识或定义无限为合一(Unity)；否则这个词汇就没有任何意义。在一个无限的造物者之中只有合一的存在。你们都看过合一的简单例子，一个三棱镜(prism)展现所有颜色来自于阳光这是关于合一的简化示范。 事实上，没有对或错，也没有极性，你们舞动着穿越心身灵复合体(complex)，你们此刻以不同的变貌娱乐自己，但一切终会在某个时点达成和谐。 这些变貌在任何情况下都不是必须的，而是由你们每一位所选择，做为另一种理解包罗万有的完整合一的方式。现在不是说一个类似或有点像的东西，你是一切事物，每一个存有，每一个表情，每一个事件，每一种情境，你是合一，你是无限。你是爱/光，光/爱。你是你本是。这就是一的法则。

"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is, modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the idea that scientific facts are all the facts there are. Another part is provided ...(展开全部)

Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative theory. Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem withi...(展开全部)