What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us deep insights into the world and our place in it. Garcia's original and systematic formal ontology of things strips them of any determination, intensity or depth. From ...(展开全部)

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitiv...(展开全部)

Sir D'Arcy W. Thompson CB FRS FRSE (1860-1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist, he is mainly remembered as the author of ON GROWTH AND FORM, an influential work of striking originality and elegance. The central theme of ON GROWTH AND FORM is that biologists of its author's day overemphasized evolution as the fun...(展开全部)

达西·汤普森（D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ，1860—1948）是苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学动物学教授，也许是本世纪最博学的人。

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology bo...(展开全部)

路德维希·冯·米塞斯 Ludwig von Mises，1881—1973 奥地利经济学大师，哲学家，古典自由主义思想家。撰写了大量思想深刻的启蒙著作，被视为“奥地利经济学派”的理论领袖之一。在纳粹占领欧洲前夕，于1940年移居美国，担任纽约大学访问教授，从事讲学与写作。他于1949年出版经济学巨著《人的行为》，为奥地利学经济学派奠定了坚实的社会学和哲学基础。他的理论深刻地影响了美国20世纪的社会思潮，并扩散到世界各国，促进了古典自由主义的复苏。米塞斯是亚当·斯密之后最重要的市场经济理论家。 夏道平 1907—1995 湖北省大冶县人，1935年毕业于国立武汉大学经济学系，留校任教。抗战时从戎，后在政界任职，1949年迁台。参加筹办《自由中国》并任编委和主笔。杂志被封后，在台湾多所大学任教。夏道平先生是著名经济学家、政论家、翻译家，是台湾知识分子的代...(展开全部)

Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decis...(展开全部)

Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing...(展开全部)

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describing the intricate inner life of its characters, or widening its focus to set their experience in context, it can evoke the reader’s sympathies as few other forms can. Yet it is also by a...(展开全部)