Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.

Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 5/e presents the thirteen basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this book explores the philosophical assumptions of each school of criticism and provides a clear methodology for writing essays a...(展开全部)

A core text for introductory courses in Literary Criticism or for first-year-graduate courses in Literary Theory; a supplementary text for introductory courses in Literature. This text is designed to make literary theory and criticism accessible to those with no previous knowledge of the subject. It presents the eleven basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and crit...(展开全部)

This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the APA, Diane Halpern, applies theory and research from the learning sciences to teach students the thinking skills they need to succeed in today's world. This new edition retains features from earlier editions that have helped its readers become better thinkers. A rigorous academic grounding b...(展开全部)

查尔斯•E•布莱斯勒（Charles E. Bressler），美国学者，威尔克斯大学文学学士，斯克兰顿大学理科硕士，佐治亚大学博士。2008年以来，任印第安纳卫斯理大学英语教授，亦担任约翰•卫斯理荣誉学院的高级学者，教授世界经典文学、修辞学等。其研究兴趣主要集中在文学理论与批评，英美作家C. S. 刘易斯、J. R. R. 托尔金、G. K. 切斯特顿、查尔斯•威廉斯，埃德加•爱伦•坡和纳撒尼尔•霍桑等方面。 《文学批评：理论与实践导论》是布莱斯勒的代表作，该著自1994年初版以来，不断修订完善，目前已出至第五版，是美国文学批评方面最畅销的入门书之一。

Mannheim, a pioneer in the field of SOCIOLOGY (740), here analyzes the ideologies that are used to stabilize a social order and the wish-dreams that are employed when any transformation of that same order is attempted. Translated and with a Foreword by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils; Preface by Wirth; Indices.

John Clark is Chief Executive Officer of the University of Western Sydney, Hawskbury. He was previously Director of the Speech. Hearing and Language Centre at Macquarie University. Sydney. Colin Yallop is Associate Professor in Linguistics at Macquarie and is Director of the Universty's Dictionary Research Centre.

Incorporated in this 2003 volume are the first two books in Mukai's series on moduli theory. The notion of a moduli space is central to geometry. However, its influence is not confined there; for example, the theory of moduli spaces is a crucial ingredient in the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Researchers and graduate students working in areas ranging from Donaldson or Seiberg...(展开全部)

Conjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase ‘medieval medicine’ sounds horrific to those of us with modern ideas on hygiene, instant pain relief and effective treatments. In those days no one could allay the dread of plague or the many other horrible diseases we have now forgotten. However, the mediev...(展开全部)