This book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and grammatical variation: to what extent can principles of grammar be explained through language use? John A. Hawkins argues that there is a profound correspondence between performance data and the fixed conventions of grammars. Preferences and patterns found in the one, he shows, are reflected ...(展开全部)

First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature. As Venturi's ""gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,"" Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Thre...(展开全部)

What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? In 1973. Robert May addressed these questions in this classic book. May investigated the mathematical roots of population dynamics and argued - counter to most current biological thinking - that complex ecosystems in themselves do...(展开全部)

What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? In 1973. Robert May addressed these questions in this classic book. May investigated the mathematical roots of population dynamics and argued - counter to most current biological thinking - that complex ecosystems in themselves do...(展开全部)

This book provides a challenging and stimulating introduction to the contemporary topics of complexity and criticality, and explores their common basis. Criticality refers to the behaviour of extended systems at a phase transition where scale invariance prevails; the many constituent microscopic parts bringing about macroscopic phenomena that cannot be understood by considering...(展开全部)

From the reviews: Schrijver's 3 volumes on combinatorial optimization reflect the current state of the art in this field, in particular from the viewpoint of polyhedral combinatorics and efficient algorithms. ...] The book offers a masterly introduction with many interesting historical remarks as well as an in-depth survey of combinatorial optimization. It is divided into eigh...(展开全部)

作者简介： 乔治·斯坦纳（George Steiner，1929—2020），出生于法国的美国籍犹太裔思想家、作家、翻译理论家和文艺评论大师，曾先后任教于普林斯顿大学、剑桥大学、日内瓦大学、牛津大学、哈佛大学等知名学府，并获法国政府荣誉骑士勋章、比利时皇家学院阿尔伯特国王勋章、杜鲁门·卡波特文学终身成就奖等诸多殊荣。主要代表作有：《托尔斯泰或陀思妥耶夫斯基》（1959）、《悲剧之死》（1961）、《语言与沉默》（1967）、《蓝胡子城堡：重新定义文化的注释》（1971）、《巴别塔之后》（1975）、《海德格尔》（1978）、《希特勒的圣克里斯托堡之途》（1981）、《真实的临在》（1989）、《造物的文法》（2001）等。 译者简介： 段小莉，上海交通大学人文学院在读博士。主要研究方向：比较文学和翻译学。在《中国翻译》《外国语文研究》等刊物上发表论文...(展开全部)

"We have no more beginnings," George Steiner begins in this, his most radical book to date. A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history, this volume can fairly be called a magnum opus. He reflects on the different ways we have of talking about beginnings, on the "core-tiredness" that pervades our end-of-the-millennium...(展开全部)

Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories - especially those in political science - are faulty. Taking insights from complexity theory as his point of departure, the author observes that we live in a world where things are interconnected, where unintended consequenc...(展开全部)