Frank is ten. He likes cottage pie and football and cracking codes. Max is five. He eats only Quavers and some colours are too bright for him and if he has to wear a new T-shirt he melts down down down. Sometimes Frank wishes Mum could still do huge paintings of stars and asteroids like she used to, but since Max was born she just doesn't have time. When tragedy hits Frank and ...(展开全部)

This book provides the first coherent account of the area of analysis that involves the Heisenberg group, quantization, the Weyl calculus, the metaplectic representation, wave packets, and related concepts. This circle of ideas comes principally from mathematical physics, partial differential equations, and Fourier analysis, and it illuminates all these subjects. The principal ...(展开全部)

Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. After outlining a typology of spatial coordinate sy...(展开全部)

"The night-side of thought." "A melodrama of the futility of the brain." "A poetry written in the graveyard of philosophy." So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indi...(展开全部)

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor’s 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in that work, t...(展开全部)

In the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, Charles Taylor explores the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor’s 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling scholarly conventions and illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in that work, there was much more to be said. Cos...(展开全部)

In the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, Charles Taylor explores the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor’s 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling scholarly conventions and illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in that work, there was much more to be said. Cos...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•法莱尔（Joseph P. Farrell）：远古外星人研究者。先后获得圣经研究与哲学文学学士、历史与神学研究文学硕士以及基督学博士学位。他毕生致力于另类史学、科学与古代文献的研究，并提出了“吉萨大金字塔武器”假说。