马克斯・韦伯，德国学者，与马克思、涂尔干齐名，并列为现代社会学的奠基者。历任柏林、费莱堡及海德堡等大学教授。一生著述甚多，以《宗教社会学论文集》及《经济与社会》等最重要，以《新教伦理与资本主义精神》等最为国内读者所知晓。

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, sociology today is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour is the use of core concepts and ideas which allow sociologists to make sense of societies, though our understanding o...(展开全部)

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, sociology today is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour is the use of core concepts and ideas which allow sociologists to make sense of societies, though our understanding o...(展开全部)

安东尼·吉登斯（Anthony Giddens），著名的社会学家和社会理论家，伦敦政治经济学院前院长。 菲利普·萨顿（Philip W. Sutton），独立研究者，此前曾任职于利兹大学和罗伯特高登大学。 译者王修晓，中央财经大学社会学系副教授，曾赴斯坦福大学亚太研究中心访学一年；主持国家社科、教育部人文社科、北京市哲学社科等多项课题；在《社会》等杂志发表论文十余篇；长期专注于单位研究，兼及组织社会学和社会治理转型等；热衷学术翻译，累计（独立或合作）完成译著近百万字。

'...an excellent and accessible introduction to the later Heidegger' - "Choice". 'Heidegger's method is unmistakable in these lectures...This is thinking that is alive, always green' - "Review of Metaphysics". 'This translation ...enlarges our historical view of the probing advances in Heidegger's thought' "International Studies in Philosophy". This clear translation of Martin ...(展开全部)

'...an excellent and accessible introduction to the later Heidegger' - "Choice". 'Heidegger's method is unmistakable in these lectures...This is thinking that is alive, always green' - "Review of Metaphysics". 'This translation ...enlarges our historical view of the probing advances in Heidegger's thought' "International Studies in Philosophy". This clear translation of Martin ...(展开全部)

Where is sociology headed? Are intellectuals fading from the scene? What of language and culture? The writings of Pierre Bourdieu have made a profound impact on the direction of sociological thought and general social theory. Pierre Bourdieu's latest work, Sociology in Question, offers an accessible yet challenging introduction to his ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures...(展开全部)

The works of Pierre Bourdieu occupy a central place in the current development of world sociology. This volume offers an accessible but challenging introduction to Bourdieu's ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures and interviews, the range of Bourdieu's ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools is explored. The issues developed ...(展开全部)

Written for advanced undergraduates, physicists, and historians and philosophers of physics, this book tells the story of the development of our understanding of quantum phenomena through the extraordinary years of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rather than following the standard axiomatic approach, this book adopts a historical perspective, explaining clearl...(展开全部)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a ...(展开全部)