Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for metals in Europe and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution and the relationship between this and economic activity, socio-political structures and the development of capitalism. Continuing his criticism of Eurocentric traditions, a theme explored in The Theft of Hist...(展开全部)

经济思想史上里程碑式的伟大著作，提供了新古典经济学方法论的标准表述。

A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and...(展开全部)

This monograph purports to provide a solution to semantical paradoxes like the Liar. The authors base this solution on J. L. Austin's idea of truth, which is fundamental to situation semantics. They compare two models of language, propositions and truth, one based on Russell and the other on Austin, as they bear on the Liar Paradox. In Russell's view, a sentence expresses a pro...(展开全部)

Many emotions attenuate more rapidly than the significance of the considerations that gives rise to them as we accommodate ourselves to what happens. Grief often diminishes quickly, even though the dead continue to matter to us; anger often evaporates, even though the injustice to which it responds remains undiminished. Nonetheless, such accommodation seems somehow all right: I...(展开全部)

Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in the first place. They locate its origin in a post-Protestant and post-Enlightenment vision of ritual action that emphasizes ri...(展开全部)

This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis.

【作者简介】 以赛亚·伯林（Isaiah Berlin），英国哲学家、观念史学家，曾任牛津大学社会与政治理论教授、沃弗森学院院长，代表作有《自由及其背叛》《浪漫主义的根源》《现实感》等。 ----- 【编者简介】 亨利·哈迪（Henry Hardy），牛津大学沃弗森学院研究员，以赛亚·伯林的文学遗产受托人之一。 ----- 【译者简介】 唐建清，南京大学文学院退休教师，主要文学批评译著有《独抒己见》《莎士比亚的自由》《莎士比亚：欲望之火》《文学批评的革命者：五位改变我们阅读方式的批评家》《天才群星闪耀：1922 现代主义元年》等。

'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply used it, without implying anything about the true meaning of the words, to outline a...(展开全部)