Nihilistic Times
Wendy Brown
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One of America’s leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading—and confounding—political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways
Rosewood
Annah Lake Zhu
A riveting study of the booming rosewood trade between China and Madagascar uncovers an alternative approach to environmentalism that disrupts Western models. Rosewood is the world’s most
Empires of Ideas
William C. Kirby
The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in
Becoming Taiwanese
Evan N. Dawley
What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan’s modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevailing scholarly focus on Taiwan after 1987, Becomin
Sold People
Johanna S. Ransmeier
评分 9.0分
A robust trade in human lives thrived throughout North China during the late Qing and Republican periods. Whether to acquire servants, slaves, concubines, or children—or dispose of unwanted ho
Elusive Refuge
Laura Madokoro
The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely forgotte
The Black Box Society
Frank Pasquale
Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior—silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portraits created
Taj Mahal
Giles Tillotson
An enduring monument of haunting beauty, the Taj Mahal seems a symbol of stability itself. The familiar view of the glowing marble mausoleum from the gateway entrance offers the very picture of per
Aisha's Cushion
Elias, Jamal J.
Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Ja
Our Aesthetic Categories
Sianne Ngai
评分 8.7分
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often ins
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
Minsoo Kang
From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton - better known today as the robot - has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of
Sexual Fluidity
Lisa M. Diamond
This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly he
Is It Me or My Meds?
David A. Karp
By the millennium Americans were spending more than 12 billion dollars yearly on antidepressant medications. Currently, millions of people in the U.S. routinely use these pills. Are these miracle d
Command at Sea
Michael A. Palmer
Commanders at sea struggle not only with the unpredictability of natural elements, but also with a shroud of uncertainty often referred to as the "fog of war". Over the centuries, most admirals yie
The Clash of Empires
Lydia H. Liu
评分 8.1分
What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the con
The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran
Charles Kurzman
The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, would remain on the throne for the foreseeable future: This was the firm conclusion of a top-secret CIA analysis issued in October 1978. One hundred days la
Between Kant and Hegel
Dieter Henrich
评分 9.5分
Electrifying when they were first delivered in 1973, becoming legendary in the years since, as transcripts passed from hand to hand, Dieter Henrich's lectures on German ideal
Space, Time and Architecture
Siegfried Giedion
Social Mindscapes
Eviatar Zerubavel
评分 7.8分
Why do we eat sardines, but never goldfish; ducks, but never parrots? Why does adding cheese make a hamburger a cheeseburger whereas adding ketchup does not make it a ketchupburger? By the same tok
Pindar
Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BCE) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's laurels." The este
Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes
The Origins of Analytical Philosophy
Michael Dummett
For half a century analytical philosophy has dominated professional philosophy in English-speaking countries. When contrasted with "Continental" philosophy, analytical philosophy is often called "A
Cultural Psychology
Michael Cole
The distinguished psychologist Michael Cole, known for his pioneering work in literacy, cognition, and human development, offers a multifaceted account of what cultural psychology is, what it has b
The Roman Near East
Fergus Millar
From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. This work of interpretive history examines this
Alchemy of Race and Rights
Patricia J. Williams
Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. Her book is both an argument for affirming group claims in the
Children of the Mire
Octavio Paz
奥克塔维奥·帕斯（Octavio Paz，1914—1998），墨西哥诗人、散文家。生于墨西哥城。早年对哲学与政治兴趣很浓，先后被墨西哥政府派驻多国使馆任职。后致力于文学创作、学术研究和讲学活动。出版有诗集、散文集多种，主要作品有长诗《太阳石》等。帕斯的创作融合了拉美本 土文化及西班牙语系的文学传统，继承欧洲现代主义的形而上追索以及用语言创造自由境界的信念。曾获比利时国际诗歌大奖、
Hegel and Skepticism
Michael N. Forster
The rejection by Anglo-Saxon philosophers of much "continental philosophy" (from Hegel on down) is largely based on the perceived failure of continental thinkers to grapple with the tough questions
Understanding Capital
Duncan K. Foley
"Understanding Capital" is a brilliantly lucid introduction to Marxist economic theory. Duncan Foley builds an understanding of the theory systematically, from first principles through the definiti
The Growth of Biological Thought
Ernst Mayr
No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established the life sciences so firmly in the mainstream of Wester
Distinction
P Bourdieu
评分 9.1分
No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist foc
