Most people believe that there are limits to the sacrifices that morality can demand. Although it would often be meritorious, we are not, in fact, morally required to do all that we can to promote overall good. What's more, most people also believe t
Shelly Kagan Normative Ethics-规范伦理
Providing a thorough introduction to current philosophical views on morality, Normative Ethics examines an act's rightness or wrongness in light of such factors as consequences, harm, and consent. Shelly Kagan offers a division between moral factors
Shelly Kagan Death: A Philosophy Course-死亡:哲学课程
There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is conside
Better Presentations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
Whether you are a university professor, researcher at a think tank, graduate student, or analyst at a private firm, chances are that at some point you have presented your work in front of an audience. Most of us approach this task by converting a written
Elevate the Debate: A Multilayered Approach to Communicating Your Research
Learn how to make data-driven research accessible to decision makers, policymakers, and the general public
Many researchers, scholars, and analysts fail to develop communication strategies that work in today's crowded landscape of content, researc
Many researchers, scholars, and analysts fail to develop communication strategies that work in today's crowded landscape of content, researc
Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
Now more than ever, content must be visual if it is to travel far. Readers everywhere are overwhelmed with a flow of data, news, and text. Visuals can cut through the noise and make it easier for readers to recognize and recall information. Yet many resea
Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War Against Women
Renowned author, scholar, activist, and journalist, Dr. Phyllis Chesler has been an independent and "politically incorrect" truth teller for nearly half a century.
As a powerful advocate for global women's rights, one who witnessed first
As a powerful advocate for global women's rights, one who witnessed first
Phyllis Chesler With Child: A Diary of Motherhood-与孩子:母性日记
Chesler writes of her experiences of pregnancy and motherhood and her attempts to understand just what she is looking for in her child.
The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis & What We Must Do About It
In this intensely passionate and compelling book, the best-selling feminist and Jewish writer Phyllis Chesler demonstrates how old-fashioned anti-Semitism has become newly fashionable, even politically correct, and how this plague threatens the Jews of th
Phyllis Chesler The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism-性自由主义者和对女权主义的攻击
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism documents a concerted assault on the goals, principles, and archievements of the women's movement. Filling a long-standing need for a radical feminist collection on contemporary sexual politics, this vol
A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warr
A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modern-day feminism
Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1967-1972 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on beh
Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1967-1972 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on beh
Phyllis Chesler Letters to a Young Feminist-给年轻女权主义者的信
In a series of letters, author and feminist Phylis Chesler takes stock of her generation's legacy to the present and future. In relating her own experiences she challenges the readers to protect what has been won, and to confront the tasks that remai
Phyllis Chesler Woman's Inhumanity to Woman-女人对女人的不人道
The bestselling author of "Women and Madness" offers a revolutionary look at aggressive relationships between women of all ages that continues the dialogue of recent bestsellers "Odd Girl Out" and "Queen Bees and Wannabees."
Phyllis Chesler Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words-亲爱的黎明:用她自己的话来说艾琳·沃诺斯
Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury had little sympathy. Condemned to death on six
Phyllis Chesler Women and Madness-女人与疯狂
Feminist icon Chesler's pioneering work--2.5 million copies sold--revised and updated for the first time in 30 years. This definitive book was the first to address critical questions about women and mental health. Combining patient interviews with an
Phyllis Chesler An American Bride in Kabul-喀布尔的一位美国新娘
Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family's antiques store in Los Angeles's Chinatown. There, her grand-mother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colorful stories about their family's past - stori
Tom Burgis Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World-Kleptopia:肮脏的金钱如何征服世界
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year
“A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November…. A magisterial account of t
“A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November…. A magisterial account of t
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's We
The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging markets” have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom
Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World
"It's the hubris of every generation to think that they have arrived at the best way of living. But all the things we now take for granted, all the modern wisdoms we hold to be self-evident, were once derided as dangerous or foolish radical thin
Jamie Bartlett The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy-人民与科技:互联网如何扼杀民主
The internet was meant to set us free.
Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad men, and vent
Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad men, and vent
Jamie Bartlett The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld-暗网:数字黑社会内部
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS AND LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit – a world of Google, Hotmail, Facebook and Amazon – lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities and cu
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit – a world of Google, Hotmail, Facebook and Amazon – lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities and cu
Samuel Cohen The Legacy of David Foster Wallace-大卫福斯特华莱士的遗产
“The Legacy of David Foster Wallace is a necessary book—it will find a place in virtually every university and college library across the land. Surely it will be among the first critical works consulted by any scholar or student venturing into the work of
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.
We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of
We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of
Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century
As a young professor at MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) did seminal work on analog computing and was a cofounder of Raytheon, whose initial success was based on long-lasting radio tubes. But he is best known for his role in Washington during W