A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist...When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now lies in...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德·贝斯特1913年生于美国纽约，1940年开始发表小说，曾参与《超人》、《蝙蝠侠》等美国著名漫画剧本的编写。从20世纪50年代开始，随着一系列优秀短篇科幻小说的发表，特别是两部想像非凡的长篇科幻小说《被毁灭的人》、《群星，我的归宿》的出版，贝斯特成为美国科幻界最核心的明星作家。《被毁灭的人》获得了首届世界科幻大奖“雨果奖”，这部作品与《群星，我的归宿》一样，已经成为科幻史上的经典名著。1987年，贝斯特在美国宾夕法尼亚州去世。贝斯特的科幻小说情节紧张、刺激，充满了大师级科幻文学的杰出贡献，1987年，美国科幻与幻想小说协会授予他“星云奖”特别奖。贝斯特是该协会评选出的第九位“科幻大师”。

Here they are--some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD (A Play), to NO KADDISH FOR WEINSTEIN, old and new Woody Allen fans will laugh themselves hysterical over these sparkling gems.

Make Conflict Your Partner for Positive Change!Clinical psychologist and transformative communication expert Dr. Nate Regier believes that the biggest energy crisis facing our world is the misuse of conflict. Most organizations are terrified of conflict, seeing it as a sign of trouble.

A historian and a political economist investigate the occult forces that control history. If historians measure the passing of historical time by the explosive rhythm of progress and collapse, Vincent Garton's Aeons Without History is a handbook to its conditions of stasis and directionless suspense—the forgotten intervals of hopelessness in which empires rot and prophecies fai...(展开全部)

In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgements can properly be considered objective - a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century, Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems ...(展开全部)

Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the 20th Century, Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems arise in a historical context. Putnam's central concern is ontology - indeed, the very idea of ontology as the division of philosophy concerned with what (ultimately) exists. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontolo...(展开全部)

In the context of debates about truth, nihilism is the view that nothing is true. This is a very striking and (at first) implausible thesis, which is perhaps why it is seldom discussed. Truth without Truths applies nihilism to the philosophical debates on truth and paradox, and explores how a nihilist approach to truth is a serious contender. David Liggins demonstrates that a s...(展开全部)

A growing number of political philosophers favour a view called liberal perfectionism. According to this view, liberal political morality is characterised by a commitment to helping individuals lead autonomous lives and making other valuable choices. In this book Jonathan Quong rejects this widely held view and offers an alternative account of liberal political morality. Quong ...(展开全部)

Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a view with which he has been associated for twenty years. He argues that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is little more than a mistake. The possibility of moral thought and judgement does not in any way depend on an adequ...(展开全部)