Boundary work studies examine how boundaries of knowledge are formed, maintained, broken down and reconfigured. This text investigates the claims, activities and institutional structures that define and legitimate interdisciplinary practices.

In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striki...(展开全部)

维克多·普莱斯考特，地理学家，澳大利亚墨尔本大学荣誉教授，澳大利亚社会科学院院士，陆地和海洋边界地理领域的权威专家。 吉莉安·D. 崔格斯，国际法学家，澳大利亚人权委员会主席，悉尼大学荣誉教授，曾任悉尼大学法学院院长、教授。

With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Anointed . Sowell, one of America's most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that society suffers from an ever-widen...(展开全部)

恩斯特·马赫(Ernst Mach)，1838年～1916年，奥地利物理学家、哲学家、生物学家，1838年2月18日生于奇尔利茨。 马赫在研究气体中物体的高速运动时，发现了激波。马赫确定了以物速与声速的比值（即马赫数）为标准，来描述物体的超音速运动，在力学上做出了历史性贡献。 在哲学上，马赫是逻辑实证论者，并提出经验主义。

Now in its third edition, Narration and Knowledge is a classic work exploring the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative. Analytical philosopher Arthur C. Danto introduces the concept of "narrative sentences," in which an event is described with reference to later events (for example, "the Thirty Years' War began in 1618") and discusses why such sentences...(展开全部)