Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Michael Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities. Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dime...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 史蒂文•罗杰•费舍尔（Steven Roger Fischer），语言史和古代书写系统研究领域的国际专家，曾任新西兰奥克兰波利尼西亚语言文学研究所所长。著有《语言的历史》《书写的历史》《阅读的历史》《复活岛手记：历史、传统与文本》《世界尽头的岛屿》《太平洋岛屿的历史》等。费舍尔对解读复活节岛和克里特岛上的古代文字做出了突出贡献，2010年当选为新西兰皇家学会会员。 【译者简介】 熊莎，毕业于浙江大学外国语学院，主攻英语语言文学专业，研究方向为中西文化交流，曾参与《剑桥非洲史》等图书的编校工作。

【作者简介】 史蒂文•罗杰•费舍尔（Steven Roger Fischer），语言史和古代书写系统研究领域的国际专家，曾任新西兰奥克兰波利尼西亚语言文学研究所所长。著有《语言的历史》《书写的历史》《阅读的历史》《复活岛手记：历史、传统与文本》《世界尽头的岛屿》《太平洋岛屿的历史》等。费舍尔对解读复活节岛和克里特岛上的古代文字做出了突出贡献，2010年当选为新西兰皇家学会会员。 【译者简介】 熊莎，毕业于浙江大学外国语学院，主攻英语语言文学专业，研究方向为中西文化交流，曾参与《剑桥非洲史》等图书的编校工作。

Recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, the text suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active constructors of natural phenomena who engage in both experimental and theoretical practi...(展开全部)

"Constructing Social Theories" presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied. Arthur L. Stinchcombe argues that theories should not be invented in the abstract--or applied "a priori" to a problem--but should be dictated by the nature of the data to be explained. This ...(展开全部)

'Grounded theory is a highly influential way of working with qualitative data and Kathy Charmaz is a major player, both innovative and fluent. This book is a model student text: lively, carefully argued and full of vivid illustrations. Beginning students and professional researchers will find it to be required reading' - David Silverman, Professor Emeritus, Sociology Department...(展开全部)

Kathy Charmaz was Professor Emerita of Sociology and the former director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. She joined the first cohort of doctoral students at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studied with Anselm Strauss. She wrote in the areas of social psychology, medical sociology, qualitative methods, and grounded theory, and ov...(展开全部)

'Grounded theory is a highly influential way of working with qualitative data and Kathy Charmaz is a major player, both innovative and fluent. This book is a model student text: lively, carefully argued and full of vivid illustrations. Beginning students and professional researchers will find it to be required reading' - David Silverman, Professor Emeritus, Sociology Department...(展开全部)

Kathy Charmaz was Professor Emerita of Sociology and the former director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. She joined the first cohort of doctoral students at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studied with Anselm Strauss. She wrote in the areas of social psychology, medical sociology, qualitative methods, and grounded theory, and ov...(展开全部)