1270 results for '"Li, Zhongjin'

Two Secret Service agents sworn to guard their protectees lost them in a single moment...and in this #1 New York Times bestseller, they're about to learn that the violence has just begun.Michelle...

Stan Allen is an architect and educator who has won global acclaim, primarily for his work in town planning and his influential 1996 essay “Field Conditions.” His new book Situated Objects shows a...

From lying to friends to lies in politics, a wide-ranging examination of the forms and ethics of falsehood.From popular philosopher Lars Svendsen, this book is a comprehensive investigation of lying...

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller.From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most...

Who counts as a woman? This question lies at the heart of many public debates about sex and gender today. While we increasingly recognise the desire of some to eliminate the sex binary in law, a...

The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines The Brutal Telling, the fifth book in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Chaos is coming, old son.With...

The little-known story of the Situationist International’s struggle against the automation of everyday lifeNo other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist...

“A masterwork…mesmerizing…We come away troubled, unsettled — and in some subtle way changed.”–The New York Times"The perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights." –PeopleA thrilling new novel...

What labor to live forever. Speak of the elect what can you do in all this world so much life in the little of it. In four parts, Susan Howe's new book opens with the arresting long prose poem...

The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and...

The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy—the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the...

“A powerful argument, swept along by Katznelson’s robust prose and the imposing scholarship that lies behind it.”―Kevin Boyle, New York Times Book Review A work that “deeply reconceptualizes the New...

Once called the home of the Jersey Devil, the Pine Barrens of New Jersey are more than meets the eye.The Pine Barrens of New Jersey cover 22 percent of the most densely populated state in the country...

In Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy—published originally in Japanese and now available in four languages—Kōjin Karatani questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy...

Cultural Writing. Essays. David Roediger teaches History and African-American Studies at University of Illinois and is a pioneering figure in whiteness studies, a vital branch of thought that...

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . .Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his...

Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Rancière has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement...

Spinning a page-turning story of literary suspense that begins in the present and unwinds back more than half a century, this unforgettable debut channels the haunting allure of Atonement as its...

The cogito ergo sum of Descartes is one of the best-known--and simplest--of all philosophical formulations, but ever since it was first propounded it has defied any formal accounting of its validity...

A grounded and intimate portrait of life by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Where We Keep the Light is the story of public service and personal faith. From an early age, Josh Shapiro learned and...