Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. </p> In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in part...(展开全部)

Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. </p> In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in part...(展开全部)

马歇尔·杰文斯是两位美国经济学家共同创作的笔名——维吉尼亚大学经济系“罗伯·泰勒讲座教授”肯尼斯·艾尔辛格（Kenneth G. Elzinga），以及三一大学（Trinity University）教授威廉·布瑞特（William Breit，1933-2011）。他们合著的系列推理小说包括《边际谋杀》（Murder at the Margin）、《致命的均衡》（The Fatal Equilibrium）、《夺命曲线》（A Deadly Indifference），以及《看不见的手》（The Mystery of the Invisible Hand）。 媒体评论 这是个引人入胜、构局严谨又充满趣味的悬疑故事，很难想象还有什么比这更愉快、更不费力的方法，可以吸收到充分的经济学知识。 ——米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman，诺贝尔经济...(展开全部)

Talk about great timing. Rothbard's extraordinary book unravels the mystery of banking: what is legitimate enterprise and what is a government-backed shell game that can't last. His explanation is clear enough for anyone to follow and yet precise and rigorous enough to be the best textbook for college classes on the topic. This is because its expositional clarity--in its histor...(展开全部)

莫瑞•罗斯巴德（Murray Rothbard），奥地利经济学派的代表人物，生前主要担任美国内华达大学经济学教授。曾任米塞斯研究院学术事务副会长，《奥地利经济学评论》编辑，拥有哥伦比亚大学学士、硕士和博士学位。他参与纽约大学举办的米塞斯研讨会达十多年，罗斯巴德一生著述甚丰，他的著作对于现代的自由意志主义和无政府资本主义理论有著极大贡献。重要著作包括：《1819年大恐慌》(The Panic of 1819)、《人、经济与国家》(Man，Economy,and State)、《美国大萧条》(America’s Great Depression)、《权力与市场》(Power and Market)、《自由的道德》(The Ethics of Liberty)、《在自由中孕育》(Conceived in Liberty)等。

Early in the history of English, the words 'grammar' and 'glamour' meant the same thing: the power to charm. Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, aims to put the glamour back in grammar with this fun, engaging alternative to stuffy instructionals. In this practical guide, readers will learn everything from the different parts of speech to why effective writers prefer concr...(展开全部)

Grammar is a subject that typically induces wincing, wheezing, or worse. Clark, a lifelong whiz at the subject, wants readers to fully appreciate the importance of good grammar and the qualities of superior writing. To that end, he has laid out several entertaining, easy-to-follow rules, governing everything from punctuation to alliteration, that promise to dramatically improve...(展开全部)

促使布鲁姆出面澄清文学经典的统一和美学价值的，是他对目前横行西方的文化多元主义以及克隆自法德的理论的不满，他将这些称之为“愤怒学派”（School of Resentment）对文学侮辱，还特别对所谓“文化资本”在文学研究中的滥用冷嘲热讽。布鲁姆便勇敢列举了自己反对的名单：艾略特的新批评、保罗·德·曼的解构主义、所谓的新左派和老右派，还有“愤怒学派”的六个分支：女性主义者，马克思主义者，拉康派，新历史主义者，解构主义者，符号学派等。它们都纷纷对文学经典指手划脚，要求拓展新经典的呼声越来越高。布鲁姆嘲笑这类文学研究者是“业余的社会政治家、半吊子社会学家、不胜任的人类学家、平庸的哲学家以及武断的文化史家”，无疑布鲁姆因此而树敌众多，但无论是他的敌人还是暗中的支持者都会钦佩他坚持己见的勇气。他不在乎别人的嘲笑，因为他认定“对经典性的预言需要作家死后两代人左...(展开全部)

This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard ...(展开全部)

Now available in a board book edition, the charming story of a chameleon searching for his own color, who ends up finding a true friend. Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only the chameleon has no color of his own. He is purple like the heather, yellow like a lemon, even black and orange striped like a tiger! Then one day a chameleon has an idea to remain one color forever by...(展开全部)