阿克顿，英国历史学家，剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授，三一学院名誉成员。曾担任《漫谈者》主编，策划和主持编写了卷帙浩繁的《剑桥近代史》，身后留下了许多论文、笔记、演讲稿、短文、书信及个人思考的记录。阿克顿被当代的许多学者誉为“自由主义的预言家”。同历史上许多关注过自由的学者不一样的地方在于：阿克顿不是在探讨自由的价值、自由的后果，而是在探讨自由得以产生的原因，自由得以长久保存的条件。为此，他详细考察了自古希腊、罗马以来的人类历史，得出了他在自由问题上的许多真知灼见和先知般的预言，这些思想奠定了他作为自由主义预言家的地位。1902年于特格尔西辞世。

从2002年开始，作者在浙江大学物理系讲授量子力学。本教材是作者在讲课稿的基础上,多年不断完善形成的。作者认为，如果大学教材编写的逻辑体系非常强，而掩盖了认知过程（即事实认知过程并不是如此，而是零散的，开始或许只认识了一点，中间有反复，在综合许多研究以后才形成一完整体系），这样很难让学生提出问题，无益于培养创造力。并且，学生会把科学发现想得过于神秘莫测，从而失去创造欲。因此，作者在内容安排上考虑了以下两点。(1)避免灌输型教学方式，尽量以提出问题，探索未知为基础；(2)没有采用很多同类教材一开始就罗列一个完整的知识体系，从头到尾很逻辑而缺乏对学科发展历史的回顾。2010已经出版的是作者在浙江大学讲授《量子力学I》的内容，本书是作者讲授《量子力学II》的内容，也是已出版书的后续内容，共有五章。第一章诱导学生体会量子力学从非相对论形式到相对论形式的发展，不但学习Dirac方程与电子的内禀自旋，还和当前学科前沿（graphene,spintronics等）相联系；在第二章和第三章先引入密度矩阵的概念，并介绍量子纠缠和量子相干，进一步介绍量子信息和计算的基本概念；在第四章诱导学生研究相位在物理学中的作用。在第五章介绍几种在物理学科前沿常用的近似方法。

The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students - and a regeneration of moral philosophy. It invites readers to learn from the most noted exemplars of mod...(展开全部)

This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition. Rawls' goal in the lectures was, he wrote, "to identify the more centra...(展开全部)

梅因（Henry Sumner Maine，1822-1888）是19世纪英国著名的法学家、英国现代历史法学和比较法学的奠基人。其一生经历丰富，兼涉法律实务、法学研究与时评，著述颇丰。其法学著作多以讲义形式面世，传世名著《古代法》便是由他在伦敦四大律师会馆的讲稿修订而成，甫一问世即成经典，在西方法学界的影响经久不衰。

梅因（Henry Sumner Maine，1822-1888）是19世纪英国著名的法学家、英国现代历史法学和比较法学的奠基人。其一生经历丰富，兼涉法律实务、法学研究与时评，著述颇丰。其法学著作多以讲义形式面世，传世名著《古代法》便是由他在伦敦四大律师会馆的讲稿修订而成，甫一问世即成经典，在西方法学界的影响经久不衰。

The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students - and a regeneration of moral philosophy. It invites readers to learn from the most noted exemplars of mod...(展开全部)

Surfaces are among the most common and easily visualized mathematical objects, and their study brings into focus fundamental ideas, concepts, and methods from geometry, topology, complex analysis, Morse theory, and group theory. At the same time, many of those notions appear in a technically simpler and more graphic form than in their general “natural” settings. The first, prim...(展开全部)

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.

奥登的评论，可同时参考他的The Dyer's hand中的"The Shakesperian City”部分。他的评论比较重视基督教心理学对莎士比亚的影响。他对《威尼斯商人》的讨论相当有意思。