Political scientists often ask themselves what might have been if history had unfolded differently: if Stalin had been ousted as General Party Secretary or if the United States had not dropped the bomb on Japan. Although scholars sometimes scoff at applying hypothetical reasoning to world politics, the contributors to this volume - including James Fearon, Richard Lebow, Margare...(展开全部)

What If...Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy is a brief, inexpensive collection of over 100 classic and contemporary "thought experiments", each with an accompanying commentary, that explore philosophical arguments and often address a genuine problem in life. The value of the book is in its simplicity in both format and tone: Each thought experiment is accompanied by c...(展开全部)

The violent conquest of the eastern part of the lands under Muslim rule by the Mongols marked a new period in the history of Islamic civilisation and in attitudes towards violence. This volume examines the various intellectual and cultural reactions of Muslim thinkers to these events, both within and without the territories subjected to Mongol control. Each chapter examines how...(展开全部)

All societies face a key question: how to empower governments to perform essential governmental functions while constraining the arbitrary exercise of power. This balance, always in flux, is particularly fluid in today's China. This insightful book examines the changing relationship between that state and its society, as demonstrated by numerous reform efforts at subnational le...(展开全部)

This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the mathematicians responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the discipline's origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume 2 focuses on calculus, the rise of analysis in th...(展开全部)

This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition, published in 2008, brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics. Part 1, on propositional logic, is the old Introduction, but contains much new material. Part 2 is entirely new, and covers quantification and identity for all t...(展开全部)

作者：阿奈莲·德·迪金(Annelien de Dijn)，比利时人，创作本书时为鲁汶大学历史系博士后研究员，在比利时荷兰天主教鲁汶大学取得学士和博士学位，在美国哥伦比亚大学取得硕士学位，曾到伯克利大学、剑桥大学与哥伦比亚大学做访问学者，现为荷兰高级研究所高级研究员、阿姆斯特丹大学助理教授。 译者：万小磊，广东科技学院应用外语系教师。刘同舫，1966年生，法学博士，长江学者特聘教授，浙江大学马克思主义学院院长、教授、博士生导师、一级学科带头人。主要研究领域：马克思主义哲学。享受国务院政府特殊津贴，入选“国家百千万人才工程”国家ji人才，被授予“国家有突出贡献中青年专家”。