Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that the Psalms are poems, intended to be sung, not doctrinal treatises or sermons. Proceeding with his characteristic grace, he guides readers through both the form and the meaning of these beloved passages in the Bible.

1 导论 交换心得，而非开堂授课 这不是一本学术专著。我并不是希伯来文专家，也不精通圣经训诂、古代历史或考古学。这本书是写给和我一样对诗篇种种所知有限的人，如果需要为本书的写作提出理由，我的理由是这样的：通常，学生若在课业上遇见问题，和同学互相切磋，比由老师单方面指导，更能有效解决问题。当你拿去问老师时，正如大家记忆中都有的经验，他可能讲解些你早就懂得的，再添加许多你目前不需要的资料，而对引起你困惑的地方，却只字未提。我曾经从双方的角度观察过这现象。身为人师，我总试着尽力回答学生的问题，有时讲解不到一分钟，某种出现在学生脸上的表情立刻告诉我，他正遇见我当学生时从老师身上遇见的挫折。同学之所以比老师更能帮助自己解决问题，正是因为他懂得没那么多。我们希望他帮助解决的问题，也正是他自己方才遇见的。专家遇见这问题，是许多年前的事了，所以，他的印象已经模糊。现...(展开全部)

In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the arts to bear witness to and explain the links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the difficult transition to postmode...(展开全部)

马丁·范克勒韦尔德(Matin van Creveld，1946- )，生于荷兰，现为以色列耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授，是世界著名军事历史学家和战略研究专家。共有18部著作，译成14种语言，被认为是研究未来战争的最重要的参考书籍。他还担任着包括美国在内的许多国家国防部的顾问，是第二位受邀在以色列军队总参谋部讲演的平民专家，曾在几乎所有军事战略研究机构任教或开办讲座。曾接受CNN、BBC、美国《新闻周刊》、《国际先驱论坛报》等著名国际媒体的采访或为之撰文。

In "Reflections on Judging," Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has changed since his 1981 appointment, he engages the issues at stake today, suggesting how lawyers should argue cases and judges decide them, how trials can be improved, and, most urge...(展开全部)

Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Above all, he commented on change. He tried to teach lessons about how change should be managed, what limits shoul...(展开全部)