《地書:從點到點》是藝術家徐冰經過七年的材料收集、概念推敲、試驗、改寫、調整、推翻、重來﹐最初的靈感終於轉化成一本無“字”卻可閱讀的書。這是一本在哪里出版都不用翻譯的讀物。任何人﹐只要有當代生活經驗就可以讀懂它。二十多年前我做了一本沒人能讀懂的天書﹐現在又做了這本誰都能讀懂的地書。這兩《地書:從點到點》截然不同﹐卻有共同之處﹕不管你講什麼語言﹐是否受過教育﹐它們平等地對待每一個人。天書錶達了對現存文字的遺憾與警覺；地書則錶達了對當今文字趨向的看法和普天同文的理想。

收录了四篇徐冰谈自己以往创作的文章，分别关于《天书》，《英文方块字入门》，《文字写生》和《地书》，中英对照。

The Araweté are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive forces of European imperialism. In this landmark study, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains this phenomenon in terms of Araweté social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis of the social and religious life of the Araweté--a Tupi-Guarani ...(展开全部)

Some of the world s greatest creators have each written and drawn an original story that explores the key moment when a clear-cut split occurs, a mutation, a personal revolt or a large-scale revolution that tips us from one world into another, from one life to an entirely new one: The Tipping Point. From slice-of-life tales and science-fiction adventures, to amusing asides and ...(展开全部)

From A Realist Point of View combines new essays with revised versions of the most important recent work of preeminent legal realist Brian Leiter. This collection offers a systematic and philosophically ambitious account of legal realism and links it, for the first time, to political realism. Throughout, Leiter engages with various legal traditions (American, Scandinavian, Ital...(展开全部)

Champion Your Best Ideas!Every time you communicate, you're trying to do something, change something, or move someone to action. You're trying to make a point. But the only way to make a point is to have a point.

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer themes an...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)