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2010.
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中文(繁體)
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"The American intellectuals - the thinkers who shaped American society" presents the biography, contribution and legacy of over 40 great American thinkers whose ideas have shaped the modern American society: Emerson, Carson, Thoreau, Steinbeck, W E B Du bois..
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[2016]
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English
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It is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time, the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality, tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the wealthiest...
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[2023]
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English
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"Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind sciences, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy. Accounts in journals and literary fiction inspired a fascinated public to make their own experiments--in scientific demonstrations, on exotic travels, at literary salons, and in occult rituals. But after...
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Sympathizer volume 2
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English
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"The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend,...
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Cambridge brotherhood volume 3
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English
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Collin Morgan, Earl of Penderdale, has discovered that someone is committing crimes in his name, leaving him suspended from his work in the war office. Elizabeth Essex is the daughter of a well-respected professor at Cambridge University and longs to be recognized for her own scholarship, which could ruin her family's good name. Morgan tracks his impersonator to Cambridge, leading him to an old friend, Elizabeth's father. The pair is forced into...
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English
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As a nineteen-year-old undergraduate in 1947, Noam Chomsky was deeply affected by articles about the responsibility of intellectuals written by Dwight Macdonald, an editor of Partisan Review and then of Politics. Twenty years later, as the Vietnam War was escalating, Chomsky turned to the question himself, noting that "intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments" and to analyze their "often hidden intentions." Originally published...
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English
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"A nonfiction biography of Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century Jesuit, scientist, and polymath, [who] was one of the modern world's first scientific celebrities. His interests ranged from hieroglyphics to China to astrology to geology. He was one of the first scientists to formulate theories based on observation. In 1638, he was lowered into the smoking crater of Mount Vesuvius to observe how volcanoes worked. He published his findings 30 years later"--...
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English
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Stupid is the new smart-but it wasn't always so
Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play?
At the same time, those who pursue the life of the mind have insulated themselves from popular culture. Speaking in insider jargon and writing unread books, intellectuals have locked themselves away in...
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Xin ren jian volume 338
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
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"Shang ge shi ji 40 nian dia, Guo Gong liang dan fa sheng ji lie chong tu. She hui shang ceng ren shi chu yu ai guo re cheng, ye wei tiao jie liang dang chong tu, jie cheng le Guo Gong liang dan yi wai de di san shi li, yao zou Guo Gong liang dang yi wai de zhong jian dao lu. Ren er, zhe xie 1949 nian hou liu zai Zhongguo de jin bu pai zheng zhi ren wu he zhi shi fen zi, man xin yi wai wei lai de dao lu tong xiang tian tang, da jia que mai zhe huan...
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Pub. Date
2014
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Español
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Un recorrido para acabar con ese dañino cliché, tantas y tantas veces repetido, de que España no ha dado grandes pensadores. Ese es el noble fin de Pensadores españoles universales, que hace un repaso a modo de manual de las obras de diez de los pensadores españoles más importantes de los siglos XX y XXI, cuya obra ha transcendido fuera de nuestras fronteras: Gustavo Bueno, Manuel Castells, Adela Cortina, Javier Fernández Aguado, Pedro...
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2020.
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中文(繁體)
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Nan Huai-Chin was a spiritual teacher of contemporary China. He was considered by many to be the major force in the revival of Chinese Buddhism. This book uses the perspective of Nan Yipeng, Nan Huai-Chin's son, to talk about how Mr. Nan deal with education, learning of traditional cultures, and utilize his own personal behaviors to help his children development proper characters.
南怀瑾的家风家教范围不一样。 书稿从从南怀瑾儿子南一鹏的视角,以家道、家风为主题,讲述南怀瑾先生如何对子女因缘施教,如何教育子女修学传统文化,如何通过家教、身教、言教以及开明自由的家风对儿女进行人格教育和生活教育等内容,如何对子女因材施教、视天下人为子女。...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper's magnificent book, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses, all of whom are geniuses at gossiping. And the James family did, in fact, know everyone intellectually important on both sides of the Atlantic, but by the time we meet her in...
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[2024]
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English
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"Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family--after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams--to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political...
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