Why are Germans so well informed on World War II while most Japanese know almost nothing about it? Why do the majority of West Germans feel guilty, Japanese victimised, and 'Ossies' virtuous? Ian Buruma explores the causes of these varied attitudes, both in the past culture of each country and in their post-war treatment and other subsequent events, and looks at how they were ...(展开全部)

In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which many of their friends have succumbed. Children who survive are allowed to move to...(展开全部)

Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. Are the German people guilty?These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention among German intellectuals and students; they seemed to offer a path to sanity an...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology bo...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology bo...(展开全部)

尼尔·菲奥里，作为一个心理学家和作家，尼尔·菲奥里已经帮助万千上万的人变得更有效率，并帮助他们发挥了最大的潜能。作为企业培训师，他与柏克德（Bechtel）、美国电话电报公司（AT&T）及李维·斯特劳斯（Levi Strauss）这样的企业合作过。 他曾在多家刊物上发表专业文章，这些刊物包括《新英格兰医学杂志》、《健康》、《创业家》和其他一些大众杂志。尼尔·菲奥里拥有经济学学士和心理学博士双学位，现居加利福尼亚。

尼尔·菲奥里，作为一个心理学家和作家，尼尔·菲奥里已经帮助万千上万的人变得更有效率，并帮助他们发挥了最大的潜能。作为企业培训师，他与柏克德（Bechtel）、美国电话电报公司（AT&T）及李维·斯特劳斯（Levi Strauss）这样的企业合作过。 他曾在多家刊物上发表专业文章，这些刊物包括《新英格兰医学杂志》、《健康》、《创业家》和其他一些大众杂志。尼尔·菲奥里拥有经济学学士和心理学博士双学位，现居加利福尼亚。

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