This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross-linguistic and language-internal generalizations about them can be explained. Constructions at Work is divided into three parts: in ...(展开全部)

This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross-linguistic and language-internal generalizations about them can be explained. Constructions at Work is divided into three parts: in ...(展开全部)

We can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the world. Privacy and its possibilities are abolished. Attention is under siege everywhere. Not silence but uninterrupted noise, not the red desert, but a cognitive space overcharged with nervous incentives to act: this is the alienation of our times.... —from The Soul at Work Capi...(展开全部)

Throughout the history of ideas, various branches of philosophy have spun off into the natural sciences, including physics, biology, and perhaps most recently, cognitive psychology. A central theme of this collection is that the philosophy of language, at least a core portion of it, has matured to the point where it is now being spun off into linguistic theory. Each section of ...(展开全部)

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and an eclectic mix of cultural texts – from Lucian Freud to Google, Anthony Giddens to selfies,...(展开全部)

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, this best-selling book by one of Japan's most ambitious contemporary fiction writers lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in an age of English dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge, ...(展开全部)

It is a shame that this book is out of print. Pagels lucid explanations of the quantum world are the best within lay science publishing. I also believe that Pagels rational approach is far and away a better introduction/exploration than the Eastern Mysticism-based books like Zukav s "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" or Fritjof Capra s "The Tao of Physics." Of course, those books ar...(展开全部)

作者：（美国）海因茨·R·帕格尔斯（Pagels.H.R.） 译者：郭竹第 注释 解说词：赵凯华 海因茨·R·帕格尔斯（Heiilz R.Pagels，1939-1988）美国物理学家、科普作家。获斯坦福大学物理学博士学位，曾任纽约科学院执行主席、洛克菲勒大学客座教授。主要研究领域为粒子物理、量子场论、宇宙学和混沌理论。他著有多部高级科普著作，除本书外，尚有《完美对称》、《理性之梦：计算机和复杂性科学的兴起》等。 郭竹第，辽宁绥中人，1935年生。1958年毕业于莫斯科大学地质系。回国后任教于北京地质学院；1965年调入地质部教育司，曾任高教处处长；1985年调入中共中央引进国外智力领导小组办公室，曾任中国国际人才交流协会驻澳大利亚和新西兰办事处总代表、京港人才交流中心总经理。 赵凯华，浙江杭州人，1930年生。1950年毕业于北京大学物理系后留校任...(展开全部)

Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system (called honzogaku) that rivaled Western science in complexity—and then seemingly disappeared. Or d...(展开全部)

Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system (called honzogaku) that rivaled Western science in complexity—and then seemingly disappeared. Or d...(展开全部)