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Fresh Air Fiend Whether it is trekking through the icy Maine woods, or journeying to a remote island in the South Pacific where the first atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux serves as both camera and the eye. This collection of essays and articles is the

Set in mid-war Korea, The Martyred follows a South Korean intelligence officer's investigation into the deaths of 12 North Korean ministers by Communist forces. What is the truth, what is propaganda, and what is faith? And what is it to be an alien o

作者：Ben Rhodes

书名：After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made《陨落之后:在我们造成的世界里身为美国人》

简介：Why is democracy so threatened in A

First published in 1923, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertrand Russell's works on modern society. It offers a rare glimpse into often-ignored subtleties of his political thought and in it he argues that

This study of the history of China, its social forces and tendencies and the character of its people, was originally published in 1922, following the author's return from a year as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Beijing. Although much h

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1954, Human Society in Ethics and Politics is Bertrand Russell's last full account of his ethical and political positions relating to both politics and religion. Ethics, he argues, are necessary to man because of the conflict betwe

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither . . . o

Bertrand Russell's critical accounts of Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism are well worth careful reading. He knows his subject and sees with clear vision the defects in these "Proposed Roads to Freedom."

Nada é sagrado. Sexo, moral, política, sociedade - todo assunto é páreo para o gênio ácido e a mente lúcida de Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), o filósofo mais expressivo e engajado do século XX, ao lado de Sartre. Em No que Acredito, publicado em 1925, ele

In this volume of essays Bertrand Russell is concerned to combat, in one way or another, the growth of dogmatism, whether of the Right or of the Left, which has hitherto characterised our tragic century. This serious purpose inspires them even if, at time

Written in response to the devastation of World War I, "Why Men Fight" lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. Russell argues that when individuals live passionately, they will have no desi

Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell's famed atheism. It is also one of the most notorious. Used as evidence in a 1940 court case in which Russell was declared unfit to teach college-leve

This comprehensive anthology of Bertrand Russell's writings brings together his definitive essays from the period 1903 to 1959. It covers the most fertile and the most lasting work on every significant area he published in.

Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free inquiry; a voice of calm in a world of

First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. Also broaching

The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting i

'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King

In an era where the liberties we often take for granted are under threat, Letters To Change

With a Terminal Essay Philosophy & Politics
From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority & the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority & human fre

作者：Evan Osnos

书名：Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now《Joe Biden：生活、奔跑和现在重要的事》

简介：A concise, brilliant, and trenchant examination

一部感人至深的回忆录，记述了难忘的一年，一个家庭和一个国家从此被彻底改变。

2014年11月，拜登家族的13名成员聚集在楠塔基特岛，庆祝传统节日感恩节——这一传统他们

作者：W.E.B. Du Bois, Donald B. Gibson

书名：The Souls of Black Folk《黑人的灵魂》

简介：This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W

作者：Ibram X. Kendi

书名：How to Be an Antiracist《如何做一名反种族主义者》

简介：Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversa

作者：Ibram X. Kendi

书名：Stamped from the Beginning The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America《天生的标签:美国种族主义思想的历史》

简介：In this deeply r