This 1967 edition of the "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" is a revision of a 1953 edition. It includes a foreword by Albert Einstein, which is presented in en face German and English versions. The translation itself is based on the definitive National Edition prepared under the direction of Antonio Favaro and published at Florence in 1897. The material specific...(展开全部)

Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the ear...(展开全部)

This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers--a man generally regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 20th century." Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibilty, surprise. He saw that in most military campaigns dislocation of the enemy's psychological and physical balance is p...(展开全部)

安德瑞·马默，美国南加州大学古尔德法学院法学教授、哲学教授，法学与哲学研究中心主任。英国牛津大学法学博士，师从拉兹。在法律道德性与政治学之间的关系问题上著述颇丰，除《解释与法律理论》（Interpretation and Legal Theory，牛津大学出版社1992年初版，哈特出版社2005年第2版）之外，还著有《实在法与客观价值》 （Positive Law & Objective Values，牛津大学出版社2001年版），《多元主义时代的法律》（Law in the Age of Pluralism，牛津大学出版社2007年版），《社会惯习》（Social Conventions，普林斯顿大学出版社2009年版），《法哲学》（普林斯顿大学出版社2011年版）及大量学术论文。

弗兰克•威廉•沃尔班克（F. W. Walbank，1909-2008），生前为利物浦大学名誉退休教授、不列颠学会会员。曾在剑桥大学的彼得豪斯学院（Peterhouse）学习古典学，从1951年到1977年间，一直是利物浦大学的古代史和古典考古学的拉思伯恩（Rathbone）教授，他也是匹兹堡大学访问学者、加州大学伯克利分校的访问学者、普林斯顿高级研究院的成员。其出版的著作包括《马其顿的腓力五世》、《波里比阿》、《有关波里比阿的历史注释》（3卷）、《可怕的革命》（与N. G. L. Hammond合著）以及《马其顿史，公元前336-前167年》（第3卷）。他也是《剑桥古代史》第7卷、第8卷的主编之一。

The original (1985) edition of this work attempted to cover the main lines of development of phonological theory from the end of the 19th century through the early 1980s. Much work of importance, both theoretical and historiographic, has appeared in subsequent years, and the present edition tries to bring the story up to the end of the 20th century, as the title promised. This ...(展开全部)

Our bestselling introduction to graphic design is now available in a revised and updated edition. In Graphic Design: The New Basics, bestselling author Ellen Lupton (Thinking with Type, Type on Screen) and design educator Jennifer Cole Phillips explain the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design, from logo or letterhead to a complex website. Through visua...(展开全部)

Our bestselling introduction to graphic design is now available in a revised and updated edition. In Graphic Design: The New Basics, bestselling author Ellen Lupton (Thinking with Type, Type on Screen) and design educator Jennifer Cole Phillips explain the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design, from logo or letterhead to a complex website. Through visua...(展开全部)

The original (1985) edition of this work attempted to cover the main lines of development of phonological theory from the end of the 19th century through the early 1980s. Much work of importance, both theoretical and historiographic, has appeared in subsequent years, and the present edition tries to bring the story up to the end of the 20th century, as the title promised. This ...(展开全部)

卢克•亨特（Luke Hunter）是致力于野生猫科动物保护的国际领导机构----狮虎豹保护中心的主席。在此之前，他担任野生动物保护学会大型猫科动物项目的主任，同时在澳大利亚和南非高校中任教。他目前进行的工作包括制定非洲狮保护策略，评估运动狩猎对豹和狮子的影响，与巴西潘塔纳沼泽地区的工作团队合作探索如何减少牧场主与美洲虎的冲突，对伊朗境内的波斯豹和残存的亚洲猎豹首次进行全面研究。卢克•亨特已经发表过100余篇科学论文和科普文章。《世界食肉动物大百科》是他撰写的第6本书籍。