Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying an unusual cargo—a menagerie of savage animals. Nursed to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beast...(展开全部)

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in l...(展开全部)

谢林（F. W. J. Schelling, 1775-1854），德国唯心主义哲学家，与康德、费希特、黑格尔并称德国古典哲学四大家。代表作品有《自我作为哲学的本原》《一种自然哲学的理念》《先验唯心论体系》《哲学与宗教》《论人类自由的本质及相关对象》《世界时代》《神话哲学》《启示哲学》等。 先刚，图宾根大学哲学博士，北京大学哲学系教授，博士生导师。主要研究领域：德国古典哲学、古希腊哲学、西方哲学史。

A new English translation of Schelling’s unfinished magnum opus, complete with a contextualizing introduction by the translator. A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling’s magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, S...(展开全部)

The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling. In 1810, after establishing a reputation as Europe’s most prolific philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling embarked on his most ambitious project, The Ages of the World. For over a decade he produced multiple drafts of the work before finally conceding its failure, a “failure” in which He...(展开全部)

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countri...(展开全部)

Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it’s hard to say. In The Weirdness of the World, Schwitzgebel argues that the answers to these funda...(展开全部)

Dive deep into the world of monster hunters, as the prominent characters from the universe take you on a guided tour of the fascinating dark fantasy adventure that is The Witcher. This gorgeous, illustrated hardbound volume contains in-depth knowledge about the locales, the deadly beasts that inhabit them, and the lethal weapons used to put them down.