Julian: 1621 books

Samuel ‘Kink’ Kinkead won two DSCs with the Royal Naval Air Service, two DFC with the fledgling RAF and the DSO in Russia. A brilliant pilot, postwar he was a long range aviation pioneer and leading racing ace selected for the international Schneider Trophy in Venice in 1927. Tragically,...

Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s...

**當代最暢銷的天才型哲普作家朱利安‧巴吉尼，向人類拋出20個倫理學大疑問：不管是家庭與性愛，還是戰爭與恐怖主義？請問你如何回答？ 安樂死該合法化嗎？墮胎是一種謀殺嗎？ 性是道德議題嗎？吸毒是永遠不被認可的嗎？ 究竟在怎樣的狀況下，我們該為自己的行為負責？** 根據蓋洛普民調，約有38%-45%美國人認為「沒有什麼道德價值可言」。 BBC也有一項民調，顯示83%的人同意「英國的道德正在向下沉淪」。 但現今走進任何大型超市，都可發現大量「倫理」產品，從公平交易食品到生態友善的清潔劑都有。大多數企業都有倫理規章與「企業社會責任」主管。英國對海外援助的金額，在2013年達到史上最高，約國內生產毛額的0.7%。 在這個媒體不斷宣稱道德淪喪、但大家卻比以往更加要求倫理責任的社會裡，往往發現自己面臨的局面比以往更加險惡，我們得要在自己以及他人加諸的判斷與偏頗的地雷區裡匍匐前進，好找出什麼才是「該做『對』的事」。 在《如果沒有上帝，想做什麼都可以？：20個倫理學大哉問》裡，英國暢銷書作家與哲學家巴吉尼，檢視20個含蓋生活各個面向的關鍵倫理議題，不管是家庭與性愛，還是戰爭與恐怖主義，每個問題都與人類切身相關。 巴吉尼客觀地解釋偉大哲學家的觀點，也遵循他個人的論證，引導讀者明白他個人的判斷與偏頗，同時也讓他人的看法有發揮的空間。希望讀者看過本書後，能更明白自己的判斷與偏頗，或是透過古今各偉大倫理學家的觀點來加以改變。例如： ‧吸毒該不該除罪，要如何從法律與道德來思考？ ‧隨機殺人事件中的犯案者以精神失常來辯護，站得住腳嗎？ ‧宗教對墮胎與同性戀議題的態度翻轉，難道上帝是所有人中最極端的道德相對主義者？ ‧美國總統否認氣候變遷而退出巴黎協定，我們可以提出有力的反制理由嗎？ ‧罹患罕見疾病的英國男嬰小查理事件中，難道父母沒有權利維護孩子的生命權？ 人類在生活中隨時都可能要面對道德與倫理的兩難，即使該捐多少錢贊助慈善行動，都牽涉到人的道德判斷。巴吉尼在《如果沒有上帝，想做什麼都可以？》這本書裡，引導大家以更有助益的方式來思考這些兩難，擺脫囿限在「手段—目的」之間的狹隘思考，以更寬廣的視野來正確界定問題。 巴吉尼並不想在書中「解決」所有重大的倫理兩難，甚至認為人類根本不需要任何道德法則，因為倫理的一個深層真相在於：人類追求的價值往往相互衝突，但這並不是因為其中一個是錯的、而另一個是對的，其中突顯的是如何權衡取捨。 巴吉尼認為，與其提供是否符合道德的精準答案，直視不確定性與模糊地帶，才更能在論辯中得出最明確且確定的結論。真正的道德論證，個人必須親自面對這些議題，而不是一連串標準立場的集結。 作者/譯者簡介 作者：朱利安‧巴吉尼（Julian...

Multiplatform Media in Mexico is the first book to treat the exciting, interconnected fields of cinema, television, and internet in Mexico over the last decade, fields that combine to be called multiplatform media. Combining industrial analysis of a major audiovisual field at a time of growth and...

Though unjustly neglected by English-language audiences, Spanish film and television not only represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry; they are also a fertile site of innovation in the production of “transmedia” works that bridge narrative forms. In Spanish Lessons, Paul...

What does music have to say about modernity? How can this apparently unworldly art tell us anything about modern life? In Out of Time, author Julian Johnson begins from the idea that it can, arguing that music renders an account of modernity from the inside, a history not of events but of sensibility,...

The Glorious Revolution of 1688–9 transformed the role of parliament in Britain and its empire. Large numbers of statutes resulted, with most concerning economic activity. Julian Hoppit here provides the first comprehensive account of these acts, revealing how government affected economic life in...

At the heart of one of London’s busiest boroughs, nestled on the bank of the River Thames, lies Kingston upon Thames. This vibrant town first appears on record in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles when King Alfred the Great’s grandfather came here in AD 838, and by the tenth century it had become a place...

In the Social Age, knowledge is no longer enough: our value comes in our ability to create meaning. Tools like Google let us find out 'facts', but agile learners use those facts to inform their actions. But how do we do this? How do we make sense of the world around us and use that meaning to take...

Performance studies in the Western art music tradition have often been dominated by the relationship of theoretical score-analysis to performance, although some recent trends have aimed at dislodging the primacy of the score in favour of assessing performance on its own terms. In this book Julian...

Julian Barrie knows that its hard for men to find the women of their dreams and then sometimes even harder to keep them. Hes made keen observations over the years when it comes to women and engaging in serious relationships with them and has noted bits of wisdom to help any man about to embark upon...

From the author of the "hugely entertaining"(Publishers Weekly) The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, lessons in debunking the faulty arguments we hear every day This latest book from the pop philosophy author of The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten tackles an endlessly fascinating area of popular debate-the...

Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics, as African...

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design. This is not urban design in the sense of the practice of design; rather it is a theory of the form of the town at all...