A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists h...(展开全部)

Written primarily for students who have completed the standard first courses in calculus and linear algebra, ELEMENTARY DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY, REVISED SECOND EDITION, provides an introduction to the geometry of curves and surfaces. The Second Edition maintained the accessibility of the first, while providing an introduction to the use of computers and expanding discussion on ...(展开全部)

The second edition of a comprehensive account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, substantially updated and expanded. This textbook offers a comprehensive, rigorous but accessible account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, grounding its approach in mainstream economics. The second edition has been extensively revised and substantially updated, with ...(展开全部)

The Incas is a captivating exploration of the greatest civilization ever seen in the indigenous Americas. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, the book investigates its extraordinary progress from a small Andean society in southern Peru to its rapid demise little more than a century later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors. This thoroughly updated ed...(展开全部)

Awk was created in 1977 as a simple programming language for writing short programs that manipulate text and numbers with equal ease. It was meant as a scripting language to complement and work well with Unix tools, following the Unix philosophy of having each program do one thing well and be composable with other programs. The computing world today is enormously different from...(展开全部)

Awk was created in 1977 as a simple programming language for writing short programs that manipulate text and numbers with equal ease. It was meant as a scripting language to complement and work well with Unix tools, following the Unix philosophy of having each program do one thing well and be composable with other programs. The computing world today is enormously different from...(展开全部)

Synopsis In his most famous work, THE PRINCE (Il Principe), Machiavelli described the ideal prince and encouraged the people of Italy to imagine what it might be like if such a person led a unified Italy. Written in 1513 and published posthumously in 1532, THE PRINCE has been interpreted both as a genuine handbook for potential rulers and as a satirical portrait of certain pr...(展开全部)

Synopsis In his most famous work, THE PRINCE (Il Principe), Machiavelli described the ideal prince and encouraged the people of Italy to imagine what it might be like if such a person led a unified Italy. Written in 1513 and published posthumously in 1532, THE PRINCE has been interpreted both as a genuine handbook for potential rulers and as a satirical portrait of certain pr...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克（Peter Burke），剑桥大学文化史教授，伊曼纽尔学院研究员。他的著作还有：TheRenaissanceSense of the Past（1969）、Culture andSociety in Renaissanceltaly（1972年第一版；1987年第三版）、Montaigne（1981）和The Fortunes oftheCourtier（1995）。 梁赤民，男，1957年生，安徽安庆师范学院外语系毕业。1998年被评为安徽省模范教师、全国优秀教师；现为安徽冶金科技职业学院副院长，英语副教授。已出版译作《全球通史：从史前史到21世纪》（第7版修订版，2005年，北京大学出版社）等。主要教学与研究领域为英汉翻译理论

When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial variation into a cohesive discipline. In this second edition, the authors take account of the renaissance of dialect research in the last twenty years. They offer new sections on dialectometry and mapping variability, a revised section ...(展开全部)