"Arguing About Language" collects together both canonical work and some of the most exciting and hotly debated current issues in the philosophy of language. It offers a fresh and contemporary look at the field, addressing both fundamental problems and emerging topics with the classic views of Frege, Russell and Kripke and Quine, as well as the most influential pieces by current...(展开全部)

"Arguing About Language" collects together both canonical work and some of the most exciting and hotly debated current issues in the philosophy of language. It offers a fresh and contemporary look at the field, addressing both fundamental problems and emerging topics with the classic views of Frege, Russell and Kripke and Quine, as well as the most influential pieces by current...(展开全部)

Philosopher Arianne Shahvisi explains how we can understand, identify, and defend our positions on today's most controversial moral questions in this illuminating and accessible work of popular philosophy. Is it sexist to say that "men are trash"? Can white people be victims of racism? Do we bear any individual responsibility for climate change? We've all wrestled with question...(展开全部)

Philosopher Arianne Shahvisi explains how we can understand, identify, and defend our positions on today's most controversial moral questions in this illuminating and accessible work of popular philosophy. Is it sexist to say that "men are trash"? Can white people be victims of racism? Do we bear any individual responsibility for climate change? We've all wrestled with question...(展开全部)

What can we do about China? This question, couched in pessimism, is often raised in the West but it is nothing new to the Chinese, who have long worried about themselves. In the last two decades since the "opening" of China, Chinese intellectuals have been carrying on in their own ancient tradition of "patriotic worrying." </p> As an intellectual mandate, "worrying about C...(展开全部)

Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, is a handbook on how to write effectively and critically about the contemporary city. The book offers works by some of the best architecture critics of the twentieth century, including Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael So...(展开全部)

理查•班德勒（Richard Bandler） NLP（神经语言程序学）的创始人之一，世界NLP领域的最高权威，著名催眠大师。 约翰•葛瑞德（John Grinder） 语言学家，NLP的创始人之一。 关于NLP 于20世纪70年代初期，在无心插柳的情况下，约翰•葛瑞德与理查•班德勒合创了神经语言程式学（NLP)的初胚。在后来的五、六年里，又有许多追随者加入，而使NLP快速成为临床心理治疗的科学，并且更确立完备了其理论架构与可靠性。 之后迄今，又有更多的各行各业专家投入发展NLP，并且扩展了其应用范围，只要与人有关，不论是个人或团体，从受虐儿童的重建到间谍的培育，从减肥、戒毒到更改个人历史、前世今生解码，无所不包。他们的学问辐射衍生到只要与人有关的各行各业，对世界各国都有巨大而深远的贡献。两位作者也成为具世界影响力的心理与人际沟通大师。

奥托·叶斯柏森（Otto Jespersen，1860—1943）是享誉国际的丹麦语言学家，一生著述颇丰，研究涵盖普通语言学、语法学、语音学、语言史、符号系统、语言哲学、外语教学、国际辅助语等多个领域，对普通语言学和语法学的贡献尤为显著，影响了包括布龙菲尔德（L.Bloomfield）、乔姆斯基（N. Chomsky）、韩礼德（M. Halliday）等语言学泰斗在内的大批学者。 中国语言学界和外语教学界对叶斯柏森的名字十分熟悉。20世纪40年代，他的语言学理论思想曾深刻影响过吕叔湘、王力等汉语语法界大师。