Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture an...(展开全部)

In this book, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a man called John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. Jonathan Spence has written several books including, "The Gates of Heavenly Peace" and "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".

The Question of Bruno is a novella and stories that are linked by characters, by locations, by interwoven substories, and by a literary voice so strong and sensitive that no matter how many guises it adopts, the stories cannot help but gather momentum and join together as a powerfully inventive whole. Set in Chicago and Sarajevo, it is a book about the trauma of war, about how ...(展开全部)

Destined to be the ultimate authority on animal communities, Animal Life explores and explains every aspect of animal behavior, including courtship and mating rituals, family relationships and defense mechanisms, hunting techniques and feeding habits. Now in paperback!

If animal behavior is mostly instinctual, why do animals need to communicate? Is it possible that there is a universal language spoken and understood by all animals on earth, including humans? Do barks, growls, rumbles, chirps, yips, and meows have communicative meanings?"No matter what species," writes acclaimed science journalist Tim Friend, "we're all concerned with the same...(展开全部)

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with th...(展开全部)

霍华德•雅各布森，英国犹太裔小说家、专栏作家以及电台主持人。雅各布森曾在悉尼大学授课三年，回到英国后，在剑桥大学塞尔文学院任教。其主要作品有：《强大的华尔泽》、《此刻谁抱歉？》、《卡鲁奇之夜》（入围2006年布克奖长名单）、《爱情迫害狂》等。2010年凭喜剧小说《芬克勒问题》摘得布克奖。雅各布森最擅长描写犹太裔英国人的困境，并以此题材创作喜剧小说而出名，他的写作风格睿智幽默，辛辣讽刺，自诩为 “犹太裔的简•奥斯丁”。

"Will a more important book on Heidegger appear in our time? No, not unless Derrida continues to think and write in his spirit. . . . Let there be no mistake: this is not merely a brilliant book on Heidegger, it is thinking in the grand style."--David Farrell Krell,; IResearch in Phenomenology; X