（美）考德维纳•史密斯Cordwainer Smith（1913~1966） 享誉国际的科幻小说大师，国际上设立有“考德维纳•史密斯再发现奖”，用以表彰那些对科幻文学有特殊创新贡献的作家，相比一般科幻小说作家，考德维纳•史密斯二战期间在中国、法国、日本等国家都曾居住工作过，熟悉东西方文化，他的创作更蕴含东方哲学与反战思想。 幼时因父亲军人和外交官的职业，考德维纳接触了多种文化，能说六种语言，曾认孙中山先生为其教父，取中文名为林白乐。二战时，他受军方派任前往中国，发挥其外交专长。战后以上校的军衔荣归。然而，考德维纳最不为人知的身份便是科幻小说家，他并不多产，科幻作家的身份也是直到过世后才由女儿公开。 在科幻小说日益成熟、作品如雨后春笋不断涌出的年代，考德维纳·史密斯更偏向严肃的哲学与反思，最早于一九五○年发表的《审视者的徒劳人生》是“人类补完计划宇宙”...(展开全部)

Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An insterstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals tur...(展开全部)

In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results in so much barrenness and sterility in psychology, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science: there can be no study of mind that leaves out consciousness. What is going on in th...(展开全部)

In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results in so much barrenness and sterility in psychology, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science: there can be no study of mind that leaves out consciousness. What is going on in th...(展开全部)

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)