First published in 1909, The Great Illusion sets out to answer one of the greatest questions in human history: Why is there war? Specifically, Angell wishes to discuss why there is war between the countries of Europe, which seem to always be at one another's throats. Angell refutes the belief that military power results in greater wealth and instead proposes that advanced economies based on trade and contract law can only generate value in the absence of military upset. War destroys any wealth that conquerors may have wanted to obtain, making the whole enterprise pointless. A deep understanding of this would, then, end the need for war. Students of history, political science, and peace studies will find much to ponder and much to argue with in this classic text. British journalist and politician SIR RALPH NORMAN ANGELL (1872-1967) was an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism and a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations Union. Knighted in 1931, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. From 1905 to 1912, he was the Paris editor for the Daily Mail, and served as a Labour MP from 1929 to 1931. He is also the author of Peace Theories and the Balkan War and The Fruits of Victory.

W. Ross Ashby was one of the greatest thinkers and a leader in Cybernetics. This book is one of the most insightful books into the nature of living entities.

When one defines order as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls exotic charm. Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault.

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's ;greatness ; and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day .

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more than two millennia of history: its self-criticism, its urge to self-transcendence, exploration and experiment, its conviction that alternative and better forms of human togetherness can be achieved, as well as its dedication to the cause of seeking and promoting this improvement in practice. But today Europe is unsure of itself and its place in a fast-changing world; it is devoid of vision, limited in resources and lacking the will to pursue its vocation. It is also struggling with the consequences of a one-sided process of globalization which is divorcing power from politics, inciting the shift from the social state to security-focused governance and piling up the casualties of uncontrolled market expansion and the ethically blind commercialization of human life.
Bauman argues that despite the odds Europe still has much to offer in dealing with the great challenges that face us in the twenty-first century. Through sharing its own hard-won historical lessons, Europe can play a vital role in moving from the Hobbesian-like world in which we find ourselves today towards the kind of peaceful unification of humanity that was once envisioned by Kant.

这部法国知识分子的编年史，与其说是一部关于个人、思想和作品的历史（其实也确实是这么一部历史），不如说是一部记述这些人之间的友谊、冲突或者仇恨的历史，不如说是一部记述这些人之间的友谊、冲突或者仇恨的历史。在回顾巴雷斯时代、纪德时代和萨特时代时，我们仿佛又回到了那些事件迭出、动荡不安的岁月，也领略了它们的象征意义；我们又看到了那些有血有肉的鲜活的人物——那些来自历史舞台上的主角和配角，他们都曾试图用各自的思想和行动来影响自己生活于其中的那个世纪。透过这些鲜活的形象，法国20世纪的历史展现在我们面前，从象征知识分子时代开始的德雷福斯事件到敲响知识分子世纪末日丧钟的萨特和阿隆的逝世。不过，米歇尔·维诺克对知识分子末日的说法仍有怀疑……

1894年，犹太裔法国陆军上尉德雷福斯（Alfred Dreyfus)被指控出卖法国陆军情报给德国，军事法庭裁定其叛国罪名成立，判以终身苦役并流放外岛。事后虽经证实纯属诬告，军事法庭却因德雷福斯的犹太人身份而拒绝改判，引起左拉等知识分子和群众的抗议，并演变成为一场具有深远历史意义的运动。这就是法国近代史上轰动一时的“德雷福斯事件”。书中大量饮用当时的文件、档案、书信与报纸，让读者重回历史现场，近距离感受19世纪末法国的社会思潮。

本书是意大利最具知识分子良心的天才作家普里莫•莱维的最后作品。莱维以生命完成了对纳粹暴行的见证，他的简明易懂的作品是对生活奇妙的赞颂，证明了人类的精神无法被战胜，以及人类通过富有意义的作品、道德和艺术击败死亡的能力。
人们一定记得，当时距离奥斯维辛解放仅仅过去了15年： 我这本书的读者正是“那些人”，而不是他们的继承者。之前他们是压迫者或冷漠的旁观者，而现在他们将是我的读者：我要将他们逼进困境，把他们绑在镜子前。算账的时刻到了，摊牌的时刻到了，而最重要的，对话的时刻到了。
我并不相信人的一生必然存在明确的目的；但如果我思索我的生活和我直到现在才为自己树立的目标，我认为在它们中只有一个目标是明确而自觉的。而它就是：去作证，让德国人民听到我的声音，去“回应”那个在我的肩头擦手的“卡波”、潘维茨博士，那些绞死尤尔提姆的人，以及他们的后代。
——普里莫•莱维
我们时代最重要和最有天赋的作家之一。 ——伊泰洛·卡尔维诺
莱维的证词超出一般体验。他的叙事是复杂、敏感、沉静的。它通常比其他人的回忆录“更冷静”——这就是为什么当它突然带着抑制愤怒的能量而迸发热情与闪光时，比所有的回忆录都有力的原因。 ——托尼·朱特
莱维的最后一部宏伟巨著…是对他所有作品浓缩而优雅的总结。 ——《纽约客》
关于犹太人、德国人、大屠杀及其它相关主题的著作。它是一场令人沉思的讨论，虽然在一定程度上能够被我们理解，但它远远超越了我们理解的极限，就像我们无法开启的古代文明的石头废墟。 ——《纽约书评》
在人生接近尾声之时，莱维越来越坚信人们会忘记大屠杀的教训，仿佛这场大屠杀只是人类历史中司空见惯的暴行之一。《被淹没和被拯救的》一书是在四十年之后对纳粹种族灭绝意义的阴郁思索。 ——《纽约时报》