安德鲁·吉利斯（Andrew Gillies）长期担任欧盟职业译员，是国际会议口译员协会（AIIC）会员。他还是一名经验丰富的培训师，每年定期与欧洲议会合作开办会议口译员培训项目。

Aimed at students of conference interpreting, whether on university and professional training courses or self-learners, Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreting - A short Course offers future interpreters a step-by-step guide to the skill of note-taking, which forms an essential part of consecutive interpreting. The system proposed, made up of a range of tried and tested techni...(展开全部)

An accomplished concert pianist, Richard received standing ovations from audiences all over the world in awe of his rare combination of emotional resonance and flawless technique. Every finger of his hands was a finely calibrated instrument, dancing across the keys and striking each note with exacting precision. That was eight months ago. Richard now has ALS, and his entire rig...(展开全部)

▼作者简介 肖恩•厄舍 Shaun Usher 信件与清单的爱好者，1978年出生于英国圣奥尔本斯，现居英国曼彻斯特。他于2009年建立了博客“信件陈列馆”（Letters of Note），以在线博物馆的形式收集各式各样的信件。厄舍的第一部作品于2013年出版，盘踞《周日泰晤士报》畅销榜六周，并售出了多国版权。在收集信件的过程中，厄舍也发现了很多有趣的清单。2011年，他建立了博客“清单陈列馆”（Lists of Note），展示收集到的各种有趣的清单。

弗朗索瓦・傅勒： 生于1927，卒于1997，卓越的学者和思想家，他的一生享誉无数。前不久，他被评为法兰西学院“不朽的四十位学者”之一。他担任过高等社会科学学院的院长，被国际学术界称为“法国大革命史研究的领军人物”，托克维尔研究专家等等，他的学术影响远远超越了法国，遍及世界，芝加哥大学聘他为“社会思想”教授，他是美国艺术和科学研究院的院士，是哈佛大学和特拉维夫大学的名誉博士，等等。这些荣誉归功于他对法国大革命的研究成就，在这个领域，他几乎是无可替代的巨人，芝加哥社会思想委员会主席耐丹・塔可夫认为“没有任何人能比他更负责任地复活了法国的自由思想”。《思考法国大革命》这本书可以说是他最重要的学术著作。

The French Revolution is an historical event unlike any other. It is more than just a topic of intellectual interest: it has become part of a moral and political heritage. But after two centuries, this central event in French history has usually been thought of in much the same terms as it was by its contemporaries. There have been many accounts of the French Revolution, and th...(展开全部)

This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. The first section of the book discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. Papers are included which dis...(展开全部)

A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal principles - championing the legal, moral and political rights of the individual against the state - Dworkin demolishes prevailing utilit...(展开全部)

All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Most societies, which we call natural states, limit violence by political manipulation of the economy to create privileged i...(展开全部)