This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic character, its relations to truth and reference, and its normative dimension. Philosophers from Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein to the re...(展开全部)

阿诺尔德·J·汤因比，1889年4月14日生于伦敦，卒于1975年10月22日。英国历史学家。牛津大学毕业，曾任该校研究员（1912-1915）。第一次世界大战时期曾在英国外交部情报部工作（1915）；战后作为英国代表团的成员出席过巴黎和会（1919）。二十世纪二十年代先后担任过伦敦大学教授（1924）、皇家国际问题研究所部长（1925）、伦敦大学国际关系史教授。二次大战时期曾任英国外交部调查部长（1943-1946）。1921年他计划巨著《历史研究》，1927-1928年着手写作。 1934-1961年出版了12卷，评述世界历史。注重无文字记载的文明和欧洲以外地区文明。提出一种以分析各种文明的循环和衰落为基础的历史哲学。因其他事务(1939-1943年任皇家国际事务学会外事部研究室主任、1943-1946年任外交部研究司司长等)而中断巨著的继续写作...(展开全部)

Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely untenable. The idea of kinship is subject to penetrating scrutiny. Unlike the proverbial Emperor, it is not that kinship has no clothes. The question is whether there is anything at ...(展开全部)

Roger Fry's classic study of the art and life of Paul Cézanne, originally published in 1927, has been acclaimed as a paradigm critical work for its clarity, perception, and originality. Himself an artist, Fry rejected prevailing modes of criticism, believing that form, not subject matter, should be the primary expressive element. Cézanne's work came closest to Fry's ideal—it ga...(展开全部)

这是一部文采斐然、生动活泼的书，对画家和学习绘画的学生而言它拥有技法方面的价值，它还为普通读者提供了一种充满真知灼见的洞察，展示了塞尚艺术不可思议的魅力。 本书中文版将于2009年由广西师范大学出版社出版。

1927. Fry, English art critic and painter and champion of modern French schools of art introduced Cezanne and the postimpressionists to England. From 1905 to 1910 he was curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1933 he was made Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge. Interested in all eras, he consistently stressed the importance of analyzing the formal qua...(展开全部)

理查德·A. 波斯纳（Richard A. Posner, 1939- ），先后以第一名毕业于耶鲁大学文学系（1959）和哈佛法学院（1962）。曾任美国联邦最高法院大法官助手、政府律师。联邦司法部副部长助理，总统交通政策特别工作组首席法律顾问等职。后任斯坦福大学和芝加哥大学法学院教授和L.B. 弗雷曼讲座法学教授，联邦上诉法院法官，并担任芝加哥大学法学院法律经济学高级讲座主持人。1981年出任联邦第七巡回区上诉讼院至今（1993-2000年任首席法官），同时担任芝加哥大学法学院高级讲师。 “他是著述最丰的联邦法官，前无古人。任职上诉法院、仍属最高产的法学家之列，同样前无古人。如果以引证率测度影响力，那么当仁不让，波斯纳是世界的最有影响的法学家”（莱西格语）。

An indepth treatise on the history of human communication with archival interviews and research of those who have studied it as an intrical part of the social sciences. Paper. DLC: Communication History - 19th Century.

In Concepts of Justice D. D. Raphael gives a philosophical survey of the development of the idea of justice. While the framework is historical, the aim is philosophical analysis and criticism. Part I begins with 'Ancient Roots': justice in the Bible, in Aeschylus' Oresteia, in the philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and among jurists and theologians in the Middle Ages. Part II, '...(展开全部)

In Concepts of Justice D. D. Raphael gives a philosophical survey of the development of the idea of justice. While the framework is historical, the aim is philosophical analysis and criticism. Part I begins with 'Ancient Roots': justice in the Bible, in Aeschylus' Oresteia, in the philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and among jurists and theologians in the Middle Ages. Part II, '...(展开全部)