For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered the level and distribution of wealth, population, education, and health acro...(展开全部)

昆廷·斯金纳(Skinner, Quentin)，1940年生，英国剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授，是西方学术界思想史研究主流“剑桥学派”的代表人物，其在学术界的地位如芬兰学者帕罗内所说，在思想史研究中掀起了“斯金纳的革命”。

昆廷·斯金纳(Skinner, Quentin)，1940年生，英国剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授，是西方学术界思想史研究主流“剑桥学派”的代表人物，其在学术界的地位如芬兰学者帕罗内所说，在思想史研究中掀起了“斯金纳的革命”。

The past quarter of a century has seen dramatic developments in social and political thought. These essays offer an indispensable introduction to some of the most influential amongst them. Quentin Skinner's Introduction traces broad transformations such as the erosion of empiricist assumptions and the undermining of the positivist ideal of the unification of the sciences by the...(展开全部)

编剧：雅安（Yann），全名雅安·勒贝纳捷（Yann Le Pennetier），法语漫画最著名的编剧之一。20世纪80年代因参与在《史壁虎》漫画杂志上连载的几部漫画而走红。他擅长创作从幽默到冒险等不同风格的脚本，参与创作过《幸运卢克》《史壁虎》等多个家喻户晓的漫画系列和单行本作品。 绘画：罗曼·于高特（Romain Hugault），主要创作关于两次世界大战的飞行题材作品，而其作品的真正主角往往是某一种型号的飞机。于高特出身于军事飞行员世家，从小就对航空感兴趣，17岁那年就拿到了自己的飞行驾驶证。他拥有一架小型飞机，“二战”期间，法国朱安元帅曾经乘坐过这架飞机。 译者：徐敢，文学学士，法学博士，曾游学法国。有《中国的启示》《莎拉珊德》等译作，并为法国电影展翻译过40余部影片。

Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide and more an a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else's story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, a...(展开全部)

Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide and more an a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a...(展开全部)

For nearly ten years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the industry standard for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. As the de facto standard modeling language, the UML facilitates communication and reduces confusion among project stakeholders. The recent standardization of UML 2.0 has further extended...(展开全部)

John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology and sociology. This new edition has been extensively developed with the introduction of new material and a thorough treatment of es...(展开全部)