One of the world's leading thinkers on truth explains what it is, the different ways of approaching and understanding it, and why it matters Truth has always been a thorny topic. How does it work? Who decides what it is? And why is it seen as so important? In this lucid introduction to the topic, leading scholar Simon Blackburn describes the main approaches to the notion of tru...(展开全部)

威廉姆·奥斯维特曾先后就读于牛津大学和萨塞克斯大学，并在后者任教多年，自2007年起担任纽卡斯尔大学社会学教授。他著有多种开创性的社会理论著作。

威廉姆·奥斯维特曾先后就读于牛津大学和萨塞克斯大学，并在后者任教多年，自2007年起担任纽卡斯尔大学社会学教授。他著有多种开创性的社会理论著作。

A distinguished literary critic explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist literary critics. "Beautifully lucid, and at the same time intelligently critical...Perhaps the most valuable general work [on the subject] available." -- Time...(展开全部)

A distinguished literary critic explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist literary critics. "Beautifully lucid, and at the same time intelligently critical...Perhaps the most valuable general work [on the subject] available." -- Time...(展开全部)

Germaine Greer examines Shakespeare's plays in detail, showing how he dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. She argures that as long as Shakespeare's work remains central to English cultural life, it will retain the values which make it unique in the world.

在线阅读本书 This extensively illustrated book presents the astrophysics of galaxies since their beginnings in the early Universe. It has been thoroughly revised to take into account the most recent observational data, and recent discoveries such as dark energy. There are new sections on galaxy clusters, gamma ray bursts and supermassive black holes. The authors explore the basic ...(展开全部)

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to analysing quantitative linguistic data for students and postgraduate research projects.This textbook presents a comprehensive introduction to analysing quantitative linguistic data. Starting with an in-depth examination of what quantitative data is, and how it differs from qualitative data, the book examines what the linguist i...(展开全部)