In this book, the author explores the mental developmental of children. unlike Piaget, Rogoff sees learning as an apprenticeship - a social activity that is mediated by parents and peers who support and challenge the child's understanding and skills. The author examines the dynamic relationship between thinking processes and the cultural context, gathering evidence from various...(展开全部)

This authored book provides an innovative and systematic account of key debates within the social psychology of knowledge, using the theory of social representations as a guide. This account is then elaborated and integrated into a conceptually coherent theoretical framework to further the social psychological dimensions of the relationship between representations, knowledge an...(展开全部)

The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, received conceptions of semantics and grammar. Assuming that metaphor cannot be explained by or within semantics, they claim that metaphor has little, if anything, to teach us about semanti...(展开全部)

All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations. But before there can be theory, there must be theorizing. Theorizing in Social Science introduces the reader to the next generation of theory construction and suggests useful ways for creating social theory. What makes certain types...(展开全部)

This first volume in a new trilogy of books by Antonio Negri examines and develops the Italian tradition of radical Marxist thought known as operaismo or ‘autonomist Marxism’ – the tradition to which Negri himself adheres and in which he is a leading figure. The tradition of operaismo emphasizes the role of the worker in capitalism and the primacy of class struggle. Within this...(展开全部)

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the early twentieth century was also a time of social progress and aesthetic experimentation. Kafka's novels and short stories reflect their author's keen but critical engagement with the bi...(展开全部)

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the early twentieth century was also a time of social progress and aesthetic experimentation. Kafka's novels and short stories reflect their author's keen but critical engagement with the bi...(展开全部)

Category theory has provided the foundations for many of the twentieth century's greatest advances in pure mathematics. This concise, original text for a one-semester course on the subject is derived from courses that author Emily Riehl taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. The treatment introduces the essential concepts of category theory: categories, functors, nat...(展开全部)

Bruce Eckel是MindView公司（www.MindView.net）的总裁，该公司向客户提供软件咨询和培训。他是C++标准委员会拥有表决权的成员之一，拥有应用物理学学士和计算机工程硕士学位。除本书外，他还是《C++编程思想》的作者，并与人合著了《C++编程思想 第2卷》（这两本书的英文影印版及中文版均已由机械工业出版社引进出版）及其他著作。他已经发表了150多篇论文，还经常参加世界各地的研讨会并进行演讲。

刘易斯·A.科塞（Lewis A.Coser），著名社会学家，1913年生于德国柏林的一个犹太人家庭，1933年流亡巴黎，在那里开始了社会学学术生涯。此后在芝加哥大学任教，并到哥伦比亚大学学习，师从默顿。他的《社会冲突的功能》以及《社会冲突研究续编》使他声明鹊起。主要著作有《理念人》、《一束荆棘花》、《在美国的流亡学者》。