Jurisprudence is aimed at students new to the study of legal philosophy, also offering new ideas and perspectives that will be of interest to established scholars. Bix seeks to explain the often complex and difficult ideas in Jurisprudence clearly, but in a way that avoids distortion of the ideas through over-simplification. As well as introducing the reader to the fundamental ...(展开全部)

Jurisprudence is aimed at students new to the study of legal philosophy, while also offering new ideas and perspectives that will be of interest to established scholars. The author seeks to explain the often complex and difficult ideas in jurisprudence clearly, but in a way that avoids distortion of the ideas through oversimplification. As well as introducing the reader to the ...(展开全部)

In his introduction to these closely linked essays Professor Hart offers both an exposition and a critical assessment of some central issues in jurisprudence and political theory. Some of the essays touch on themes to which little attention has been paid, such as Bentham's identification of the forms of mysitification protecting the law from criticism; his relation to Beccaria;...(展开全部)

Category theory has provided the foundations for many of the twentieth century's greatest advances in pure mathematics. This concise, original text for a one-semester course on the subject is derived from courses that author Emily Riehl taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. The treatment introduces the essential concepts of category theory: categories, functors, nat...(展开全部)

〔英〕斯科特·维奇（Scott Veitch） 香港大学法理学讲席教授，曾担任英国格拉斯哥大学法理学讲席教授。研究兴趣涵盖法学理论、社会学理论和政治学理论。博士毕业于爱丁堡大学，后于澳大利亚和英国等多所大学任教。 〔希腊〕埃米利奥斯·克里斯多利迪斯（Emilios Christodoulidis） 英国格拉斯哥大学法理学讲席教授，芬兰赫尔辛基大学讲师。研究兴趣涵盖宪法理论、民主学说、批判法学和转型正义等领域。其著作《法律与反身性政治》曾荣获全欧法律理论奖与法学协会“杰出法学学术贡献奖”。 〔意〕马尔科·哥尔多尼（Marco Goldoni） 英国格拉斯哥大学法学院高级讲师，伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）访问教授。

These essays, which cover a wide range of topics, were written by Professor Hart between 1953 and 1981, and first appeared in a variety of different books and journals.

Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Now in its seventh edition, this landmark text continues to offer outstanding coverage of more than a century of thought and writing about the movies. Incorporating classic texts by pioneers ...(展开全部)

Presenting key psychology concepts within the context of personal narratives and essays (over 60), this reader challenges students to explore the intrinsic relationships between introductory psychological principles and real-world experiences.

Bifurcation theory and catastrophe theory are two well-known areas within the field of dynamical systems. Both are studies of smooth systems, focusing on properties that seem to be manifestly non-smooth. Bifurcation theory is concerned with the sudden changes that occur in a system when one or more parameters are varied. Examples of such are familiar to students of differential...(展开全部)