An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels...(展开全部)

Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. But anthropologist Joo Biehl also tells why this policy, hailed as a model worldwide, has been ...(展开全部)

João Biehl is professor of anthropology at Princeton University. Torben Eskerod is an artist and freelance photographer based in Copenhagen. The two also collaborated on the award-winning book Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.

Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. But anthropologist Joo Biehl also tells why this policy, hailed as a model worldwide, has been ...(展开全部)

Represents a selection from Nietzche’s notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others. Nietzsche’s notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse into the workshop and mind of a great thinker, and compare favorably with the notebooks of Gide and Kafka, Camus and Wittgenste...(展开全部)

Represents a selection from Nietzche’s notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others. Nietzsche’s notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse into the workshop and mind of a great thinker, and compare favorably with the notebooks of Gide and Kafka, Camus and Wittgenste...(展开全部)

From the editors of Sight Unseen, an anti-decorating book that champions a new approach to interiors-simply surrounding yourself with objects you love. "A refreshing, and necessary, counternarrative to shop-this-look consumerism and the aesthetic sameness that afflicts so many interiors.”-Vulture In the modern home, it matters less whether your interior is perfectly appointed a...(展开全部)

Accessible to students with no background in the subject, A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will provides an extensive and up-to-date overview of all the latest views on this central problem of philosophy. Opening with a concise introduction to the history of the problem of free will--and its place in the history of philosophy--the book then turns to contemporary debates and ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·弗拉霍斯（James Vlahos） 《纽约时报》《连线》《大众科学》《科学美国人》《大西洋》《智族GQ》和《国家地理》等杂志著名记者，美国鬼才科普作家，以兴趣盎然、发人深省的方式来讨论复杂难懂的科学问题见长。 弗拉霍斯从20世纪80年代开始跟踪和报道智能语音技术，30多年来，他零距离地见证和细致地观察了这一领域的研究进展，曾与这一领域中的许多杰出人物直接对话，本书中的许多观点就是来自于他对一手访谈资料的提炼。

詹姆斯·弗拉霍斯（James Vlahos） 《纽约时报》《连线》《大众科学》《科学美国人》《大西洋》《智族GQ》和《国家地理》等杂志著名记者，美国鬼才科普作家，以兴趣盎然、发人深省的方式来讨论复杂难懂的科学问题见长。 弗拉霍斯从20世纪80年代开始跟踪和报道智能语音技术，30多年来，他零距离地见证和细致地观察了这一领域的研究进展，曾与这一领域中的许多杰出人物直接对话，本书中的许多观点就是来自于他对一手访谈资料的提炼。