Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series ...(展开全部)

Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series ...(展开全部)

There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago.While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable a...(展开全部)

齐斯•德福林 Keith Devlin ： 2004国际毕达哥拉斯奖（International Pythagoras Prize）、2007卡尔•沙根科普奖（Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popluarization）得主，斯坦福大学人文科学与 先端科技研究中心（H-STAR）共同创办人及资深研究员，同时也是该校Media X研究计划的创立人之一。人称“Math Guy”的德福林教授研究领域广泛，包括数学认知、推理模式与信息理论等，并钻研以不同媒介传授数学予多元大众，致力推广“软数学的”观念。已出版著作近三十本，发表论文逾八十篇。目前居于加州帕洛阿尔托（Palo Alto）市。

卡罗琳·帕克丝特，美国著名畅销书作家。毕业于美利坚大学创作研究所。大学毕业后，曾经在书店工作三年，而后才全心投入创作。她的作品散见于《北美评论》、《明尼苏达评论》、《夏威夷评论》、《新月评论》。《巴别塔之犬》是她正式出版的第一部小说，甫一出版即引起热烈回响，有书评家说她具有强烈的阿言德风格：雾气浓重的鬼魅深夜、古老的民间传说、给予人如梦般的阅读历程；更有书评家赞许她是美国新生代作家之中最耀眼的一位。卡罗琳．帕克斯特现今与丈夫及儿子住在华盛顿特区，第二本小说Lost & Found也已经在美出版。 何致和，1967年生于台北。文化大学英文系，东华大学创作与英语文学研究所毕业。短篇小说曾获联合报文学奖、宝岛小说奖、教育部文艺创作奖。着有小说集《失去夜的那一夜》、长篇小说《白色城市的忧郁》。另有《酸臭之屋》、《恶梦工厂》、《时间线》、《人骨拼图》、《战争魔...(展开全部)

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to r...(展开全部)

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and ...(展开全部)

Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their domi...(展开全部)