General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with k...(展开全部)

In the first in a new series of easily digestible, commute-lengthbooks of original philosophy, renowned thinker John D. Caputo explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really means Riding to work in the morning has has become commonplace. We ride everywhere. Physicians and public health officials plead with us to get out and walk, to get some exercise. People used to l...(展开全部)

What is truth? Paul Horwich gives the definitive exposition of a notable philosophical theory, 'minimalism'. This is the controversial theory that the nature of truth is entirely captured in the trivial fact that each proposition specifies its own condition for being true, and that truth is therefore, despite the philosophical struggles to which it has given rise, an entirely m...(展开全部)

Catch the hapless Greg Heffley as he navigates his way through family and school life with his best friend, Rowley, by his side in a brand new "Wimpy Kid" adventure!

In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. Part I addresses crucial background issues, including the identification of the bearers of truth, the basis for distinguishing truth from other notions (like certainty, with which it is often confused), and ...(展开全部)

Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and "false" as meaningful categories, and...(展开全部)

In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. Part I addresses crucial background issues, including the identification of the bearers of truth, the basis for distinguishing truth from other notions (like certainty, with which it is often confused), and ...(展开全部)

為什麼要用那種驚恐的眼光看著我呢？我在幹什麼？迷惘中，陳思妍看到了自己的腳，她看到自己的腳，不聽使喚的踏在了窗臺上，自己這是要幹什麼？ 不—— 有著許多鬧鬼傳聞的弘文高中，郵差蘇舒前往送信， 卻發現收信對象的「三年六班」並不存在？！ 跳樓自殺的屍體消失了，學生們決定冒險夜探校園， 卻陷入更詭異的境地…… 一張張身為關鍵的女孩照片、一股高深莫測的氣息， 似乎與眾人如影相隨——它們跟蹤的對象究竟是誰？ 神祕的事前警語、由奇特角度拍攝少女的「那個東西」， 又究竟是在傳達什麼訊息？ ……

一枕槐安，在温槐年少的认知里，这是两人缘分的证明。可直到后来她才明白，这四个字本就是一场黄粱梦的隐喻。她是栖于槐树枝头的安静少女，他是树下仰望的沉默少年。青梅竹马，久别重逢。有些感情的意义不在于厮守，而在于彼此成全。他们的故事不是the bed ending，而是the best ending。

Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill th...(展开全部)