哈福德·麦金德（Halford John Mackinder，1861—1947），英国著名地理学家与地缘政治家。 他认为地理学是探讨人类与自然环境相互作用的科学，提出陆心说，首次以全球战略观念分析世界政治力量。他对英国大学地理教育的发展起了重要作用，著有《历史的地理枢纽》、《不列颠与不列颠的海洋》和《民主的理想与现实》等。

哈福德·麦金德（Halford John Mackinder，1861—1947），英国著名地理学家与地缘政治家。 他认为地理学是探讨人类与自然环境相互作用的科学，提出陆心说，首次以全球战略观念分析世界政治力量。他对英国大学地理教育的发展起了重要作用，著有《历史的地理枢纽》、《不列颠与不列颠的海洋》和《民主的理想与现实》等。

Noam Chomsky is one of the leading intellectual figures of modern times. He has had a major influence on linguistics, psychology and philosophy, and a significant effect on many other disciplines, from anthropology to mathematics, education to literary criticism. In this rigorous yet accessible account of Chomsky's work and influence, Neil Smith analyses Chomsky's key contribut...(展开全部)

Noam Chomsky is one of the leading intellectual figures of modern times. He has had a major influence on linguistics, psychology and philosophy, and a significant effect on many other disciplines, from anthropology to mathematics, education to literary criticism. In this rigorous yet accessible account of Chomsky's work and influence, Neil Smith analyses Chomsky's key contribut...(展开全部)

萨义德(Edward W．Said,1935-2003) 当今世界最具影响力的文学与批评家之一．1935年出生于耶路撒冷，后移民美国，1963年起一直任哥伦比亚大学英国文学与比较文学教授．2003年9月23日，与白血病抗争了10多年后，在纽约去世．

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the ...(展开全部)

For the pioneering psychologist D.W. Winnicott, a creative approach to the world is what makes life worth living. But what are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relati...(展开全部)

'No reality please. We're economists'. There is a wide spread belief that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. In a controversial and original study, Tony Lawson argues that the root of this irrelevance is in the failure of economists to find methods and tools which are appropriate for the social world it addresses. Supporting his argument with...(展开全部)

In this short, lucid, rich book Michael Dummett sets out his views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality consist of? To answer this, Dummett holds, it is necessary to say what kinds of fact obtain, and what constitutes their holding good. Facts correspond with true propositions, or true thoughts: when we...(展开全部)