“WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of relig...(展开全部)

“WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of relig...(展开全部)

Nothing is not. Yet it seems that we invoke absences and nothings often in our philosophical explanations. Negative metaphysics is on the rise. It has been claimed that absences can be causes, there are negative properties, absences can be perceived, there are negative facts, and we can refer to and speak about nothing. Parmenides long ago ruled against such things. Here we con...(展开全部)

Nothing is not. Yet it seems that we invoke absences and nothings often in our philosophical explanations. Negative metaphysics is on the rise. It has been claimed that absences can be causes, there are negative properties, absences can be perceived, there are negative facts, and we can refer to and speak about nothing. Parmenides long ago ruled against such things. Here we con...(展开全部)

When Grandma says she's seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn't believe her. She's too old to play Grandma's silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So even when Nora sees butterflies with wings as big as her arm, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing, she knows there's absolutely, DEFINITELY no way there...(展开全部)

维尔纳·桑巴特，Werner Sombart (1863～1941)，德国经济学家、社会学家。1863年1月19日生于德国埃姆斯勒本的富裕的中产阶级家庭，1882年起在华河大学和柏林大学学习法律和经验，1888年获得柏林大学博士学位，后留学意大利。1888—1890年任布莱门商会会长，1890年-1906年任布莱斯劳大学副教授（经济学特别教职），在这里，桑巴特开始了资本主义和社会主义问题的研究，并取得了丰富的成果。 1906年，在完成《为什么美国没有社会主义》一书后不久，他离开了布列斯劳大学，来到柏林商业大学，并在那里获得教授职位。1918年任柏林大学教授。1931年他成为荣誉退休教授，结束了正式的学术生涯。1941年5月18日卒于柏林。桑巴特曾与马克斯·韦伯、费迪南·滕尼斯共同创立德国社会学学会，并合办了《社会科学与社会政策》杂志。桑巴特一生著述甚...(展开全部)

维尔纳·桑巴特，Werner Sombart (1863～1941)，德国经济学家、社会学家。1863年1月19日生于德国埃姆斯勒本的富裕的中产阶级家庭，1882年起在华河大学和柏林大学学习法律和经验，1888年获得柏林大学博士学位，后留学意大利。1888—1890年任布莱门商会会长，1890年-1906年任布莱斯劳大学副教授（经济学特别教职），在这里，桑巴特开始了资本主义和社会主义问题的研究，并取得了丰富的成果。 1906年，在完成《为什么美国没有社会主义》一书后不久，他离开了布列斯劳大学，来到柏林商业大学，并在那里获得教授职位。1918年任柏林大学教授。1931年他成为荣誉退休教授，结束了正式的学术生涯。1941年5月18日卒于柏林。桑巴特曾与马克斯·韦伯、费迪南·滕尼斯共同创立德国社会学学会，并合办了《社会科学与社会政策》杂志。桑巴特一生著述甚...(展开全部)

After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues...(展开全部)

Is there really a human race? </p> Is it going on now all over the place? </p> When did it start? </p> Who said, "Ready, Set, Go"? </p> Did it start on my birthday? </p> I really must know. </p> With these questions, our hero's imagination is off and running. Is the human race an obstacle course? Is it a spirit? Does he get his own lane? Does he get his own...(展开全部)

Is there really a human race? Is it going on now all over the place? When did it start? Who said, "Ready, Set, Go"? Did it start on my birthday? I really must know. With these questions, our hero's imagination is off and running. Is the human "race" an obstacle course? Is it a spirit? Does he get his own lane? Does he get his own coach? Written with Jamie Lee Curtis's hu...(展开全部)