乔治·莱考夫（George Lakoff），美国加州大学伯克利分校语言学系教授，著名语言学家，认知语言学的创始人。研究领域广泛，主要包括认知语言学，语言的神经理论，概念系统，认知语言学在政治、文学、哲学、数学中的应用等。著述颇丰：《女人、火和危险的事情》（Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things)、《道德政治》（Moral Politics）、《别想那只大象》（Don't Think of an Elephant!）等。 马克·约翰逊（Mark Johnson），美国俄勒冈大学哲学系教授，系主任，特聘骑士教授，认知语言学和体验哲学的创始人之一。研究领域广泛，涉及哲学、语言学、人工智能、认知科学、美学等。重要著述包括：《身体的意义》（The Meaning of the Body）、《思想中的身体》（The Body in t...(展开全部)

People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we com...(展开全部)

An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting. --Time Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysteri...(展开全部)

洛兰·达斯顿是马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所荣誉院长。她的作品涉猎科学史的诸多话题，包括概率统计史、早期现代科学奇迹、科学事实的出现、科学模型、科学探究的对象、自然的道德权威和科学客观性的历史。近期出版书籍包括《反自然》（Gegen die Natur，2018；英文版，Against Nature, 2019），《档案馆里的科学》（Science in the Archives，2017）和《理性是如何疯掉的》（2014）。 达斯顿目前的研究方向包括规则史、现代性在科学史上的意义、19世纪末以来科学领域的国际治理，以及道德和自然秩序之间的关系。达斯顿获得过辉瑞奖（1989年，《启蒙时期的古代概率论》）和萨顿科学史学会奖章、巴伐利亚科学院谢林奖、格丁根科学院的利钦伯格奖章、比勒费尔德大学卢曼奖，以及普林斯顿大学和希伯来大学荣誉博士学位。2018年，她获得...(展开全部)

Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of specul...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of specul...(展开全部)

In this provocative and timely new book, Alain Touraine explores the question of how we might live together in a truly globalized world society. Rejecting the seductive metaphor of a global melting pot, Touraine mounts a powerful attack on the idea that we now live together as equals, sharing the same social and cultural values. If anything, he argues, our differences are being...(展开全部)

In this provocative and timely new book, Alain Touraine explores the question of how we might live together in a truly globalized world society. Rejecting the seductive metaphor of a global melting pot, Touraine mounts a powerful attack on the idea that we now live together as equals, sharing the same social and cultural values. If anything, he argues, our differences are being...(展开全部)

'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finan...(展开全部)