本书是《现代西方学术文库》系列之一的《启迪(本雅明文选》分册，书中具体收录了：《从“资产阶级世纪”中苏醒张旭东》、《瓦尔特·本雅明：1892-1940汉娜阿伦特》、《论尼古拉·列斯克夫》、《论波德莱尔的几个母题》等文章。

Considers the complex changes the Middle Ages brought on contemporary culture in Europe
Examines the people and their lifestyles, from kings to the ordinary man
Looks at the big ideas of the period, including Christian salvation and sacred kingship
Considers the impact the period on the modern day
Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over six million copies sold worldwide
The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the provinces of the Roman Empire, which became Barbarian kingdoms after c.450-650, to the northern and eastern regions that became increasingly integrated into Europe, Rubin explores the emergence of a truly global system of communication, conquest, and trade by the end of the era.
Presenting an insight into the challenges of life in Europe between 500-1500 — at all levels of society — Rubin looks at kingship and family, agriculture and trade, groups and individuals. Conveying the variety of European experiences, while providing a sense of the communication, cooperation, and shared values of the pervasive Christian culture, Rubin looks at the legacies they left behind.
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Readership: General readers and students of history, as well as students of religion and theology.

Their hotel was beautifully situated with a view of the Palace of Hadrian, the Temple of Poseidon, and the royal lodge of Mark Antony. It looked like the past, on Earth. But times had changed, and there were ghosts and chimeras and phantasies everywhere.

An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers

From 1971 until 1984 at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures ranging freely and conversationally over the range of his research. In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early seventeenth century of a new understanding of war as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis. Tracing this development, Foucault outlines the genealogy of power and knowledge that had become his dominant concern.

《长青哲学》是一部神秘主义经典选集，融合了各家各派的观点，书中摘录有埃克哈特大师、鲁米、老子以及《薄伽梵歌》、《西藏度亡经》、《金刚经》、《奥义书》等选段，作者奥尔多斯•赫胥黎按照若干主题将这些经典选段串在一起。作者认为，“长青哲学”存在于世界上所有宗教的传统知识中，其成熟的形式则出现在每一种较为高级的宗教中。在这本《长青哲学》中，赫胥黎旨在揭示为一切信仰所共有的“神圣实在”，他以惊人的智慧和洞察力，考察了大量信仰形式，包括禅宗、印度教、道教、基督教神秘主义和伊斯兰教，研究了各种宗教传统中的精神信仰，并解释了这些信仰是如何统一在人类渴望体验神性这一共同的愿望之下的。 "

Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously awaiting-the definitive, complete collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, including 164 poems in all, as well as the full text of her Nobel acceptance speech of December 7, 1996, in Stockholm. Beautifully translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, who won a 1996 PEN Translation Prize for their work, this volume is a must-have for all readers of poetry.

>On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.
Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.

Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself.
Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.

Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.

Inspired by John Cheever's classic short story, "The Swimmer," Roger Deakin set out from his moat in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles. The result of his journey is a maverick workof observation and imagination.

《苦炼》以16世纪动荡不安的欧洲社会为背景，但透过岁月的多棱镜，却折射出了人类命运始终面临的一些根本问题。整个小说里，火是泽农化身，泽农与火之间是一种内在的、天然的、持久的联系。在众多火的意象中，智慧之火、知识之火很早就唤起了他的强烈的求知欲以及永不满足的对物质世界和精神世界的好奇心。普罗米修斯神话的第二个陷喻形象即具有锤炼和再造功能的冶炼之火。对于炼丹师泽农而言，火是主宰物质的手段和形式，也是统治世界的工具；同时，火改造物质的功能加速了物质的变革和自然界的时间节奏。冶炼之火赋予人以破坏时间规律的神圣权力。这种超越人类条件并拥有神圣力量的愿望和梦想与泽农在所有领域的反叛精神是相辅相成的。

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life.
In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene , Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
This 30th anniversary edition of Dawkins' fascinating book retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters added in the second edition. In a new Introduction the author presents his thoughts thirty years after the publication of his first and most famous book, while the inclusion of the two-page original Foreword by brilliant American scientist Robert Trivers shows the enthusiastic reaction of the scientific community at that time. This edition is a celebration of a remarkable exposition of evolutionary thought, a work that has been widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, and that continues to stimulate whole new areas of research today.

In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In “Lusus Naturae,” a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her.
By turns thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking, Stone Mattress affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.

本书是2002年诺贝尔经济学奖得主丹尼尔·卡尼曼的代表作，被誉为“不确定状况下的判断”研究领域的圣经。本书含有35篇经典论文，分成10个部分，汇集了有关判断和推理研究的经典作品，基本囊括了目前所有关于判断研究领域最权威的文献，具有极大的理论和应用价值。本书所代表的有关判断的研究综合了各个相关领域的成果：临床预测，统计预测、有关主观概率的研究、有关因果归因和常人心理解释的研究，以及心理学中有关推理启发式和策略的研究等。

《埃拉蒂奥•迪埃斯特:结构艺术的创造力》力求达到内容广博，然而并不是说它收尽了迪埃斯特数量众多的作品，也没有做到针对他的某些作品解剖入微。它也不是一本细节详尽的传记，理想的传记作者应当是这位大师身边非常亲密的人。

In an industry so often enamored by media-coddled superstars with trendy clients, Eladio Dieste stands out as a refreshing and inspiring figure. Born in Uruguay, Dieste spent most of his long and productive career creating industrial and agrarian works, public infrastructure, commercial buildings, and small churches in his native country. Dieste's unique and innovative method of design, a melding of architecture and engineering, elevated these often humble buildings to masterworks of art.
Capitalizing on his revolutionary approach to building with reinforced masonry, Dieste built aesthetically stunning structures economically. If he often worked outside the architectural mainstream, he never lost sight of the modest people for whom his structures were built. Today, those familiar with his work consider him the equal of such structural innovators as Pier Luigi Nervi and Eduardo Terroja.
In this, the first comprehensive analysis of his work to be published in English, both the beauty and technical innovation of Dieste's projects are examined in detail. Three essays by Dieste himself convey his thoughts on art, culture, and technology. With Dieste's death in 2000, this book serves as a tribute and a definitive reference to his extraordinary work and its brilliant union of architecture and engineering.

Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.