理查德-艾文斯(Richard J．Evans)，当代杰出的历史学家，剑桥大学近现代史钦定讲座教授。著作等身，曾获多种奖项与奖励。在迄今为止他出版的近二十本著作中，影响最大的书当属Deathin Hamburg：SocietyandPolitics the Choler a Yearsl830-1910(Oxford，1987)，InHitler's Shadow：WestGermanHistorians andtheAttempttoEscapefrom the NaziPast(New York，1989)，Rituals ofRetribution(Oxford，1996)，Talesfrom the German Underworld(New Haven and London，1998)，The ThirdReich in Powerl933...(展开全部)

理查德-艾文斯(Richard J．Evans)，当代杰出的历史学家，剑桥大学近现代史钦定讲座教授。著作等身，曾获多种奖项与奖励。在迄今为止他出版的近二十本著作中，影响最大的书当属Deathin Hamburg：SocietyandPolitics the Choler a Yearsl830-1910(Oxford，1987)，InHitler's Shadow：WestGermanHistorians andtheAttempttoEscapefrom the NaziPast(New York，1989)，Rituals ofRetribution(Oxford，1996)，Talesfrom the German Underworld(New Haven and London，1998)，The ThirdReich in Powerl933...(展开全部)

Helen Gardner is a vigorous and eloquent champion of traditional literary values. These values have been subverted, she feels, by some of the ablest of modern academics and by prevalent tendencies in criticism and teaching today. She discusses the new schools of criticism which exalt the sometimes unintelligible theorist above the creator of the work of art, the imaginative int...(展开全部)

Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organize some kind of defense against potentially hostile neighbors. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon promp...(展开全部)

Jonas Olson presents a critical survey of moral error theory, the view that there are no moral facts and so all moral claims are false. In Part I (History), he explores the historical context of the debate, and discusses the moral error theories of David Hume and of some more or less influential twentieth century philosophers, including Axel Hägerström, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig...(展开全部)

Jonas Olson presents a critical survey of moral error theory, the view that there are no moral facts and so all moral claims are false. In Part I (History), he explores the historical context of the debate, and discusses the moral error theories of David Hume and of some more or less influential twentieth century philosophers, including Axel Hägerström, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig...(展开全部)

A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth. E. H. Carr's What Is History? , a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. ...(展开全部)

A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth. E. H. Carr's What Is History? , a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. ...(展开全部)

These new translations present Plato's remarkable dramatization of the momentous events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 399 BC, on charges of irreligion and corrupting the young. The Euthyphro, Defence of Socrates, and Crito form a dramatic and thematic sequence, raising fundamental questions about the basis of moral, religious, legal, and political obligation. Plato expl...(展开全部)