'The Essential Plotinus is a lifesaver. For many years my students in Greek and Roman Religion have depended on it to understand the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The translation is crisp and clear, and the excerpts are just right for an introduction to Plotionus's many-layered view of the world and humankind's place in it' - F. E. Romer, University of Arizona

This is the ideal introduction to the thought of the third-century AD writer Plotinus, one of the greatest of ancient philosophers, now enjoying a major revival of interest. Dominic O'Meara has tailored the book carefully to the requirements of students: he writes clearly and authoritatively, assumes no knowledge of Greek or expertise in ancient philosophy, stays close to the t...(展开全部)

作者 多米尼克·奥米拉（Dominic J. O’Meara），爱尔兰古典学家、柏拉图主义研究专家，瑞士弗里堡大学哲学系荣休教授。他在柏拉图主义和新柏拉图主义研究方面出版了多部重要著作，其中包括《普罗提诺思想中的等级结构：历史和解释研究》（1975）、《毕达哥拉斯主义的 复兴：古代晚期的数学和哲学》（1989）、《柏拉图式政制：古代晚期柏拉图主义政治哲学》（2003）、《柏拉图晚期作品中的宇宙论与政治学》（2017）等。 译者 李博涵，杨怡静，石帅锋，张文明，张一帆，罗晶晶，宋泽豫，赵哲崇 校对 梁中和，山西人，四川大学哲学系教授、博导，四川大学西方古典哲学研究所所长、四川省哲学学会秘书长。

Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204 70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was convinced of the existence of a state of supreme perfection and argued powerfully that it was necessary to guide the human soul towards this state. Here he outlines his compelling b...(展开全部)

THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time - from THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY, the groundbreaking book in which he conined the tern "conventional wisdom," to THE GREAT CRASH, an unsurpassed account of the events that triggered America's worst economic crisis. Galbraith's new...(展开全部)

Some of the best and most influential papers by Amos Tversky, one of the most brilliant social science thinkers of the twentieth century. Amos Tversky (1937–1996) was a towering figure in the cognitive and decision sciences. His work was ingenious, exciting, and influential, spanning topics from intuition to statistics to behavioral economics. His long and extraordinarily produ...(展开全部)

威廉姆•J. 杜克（William J. Duiker），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学东亚学名誉教授。学术兴趣极为广泛，主要研究领域为民族主义和亚洲革命，其作品Ho Chi Minh：A Life（Hyperion 2000）曾提名2001年普利策奖。 杰克森•J. 斯皮尔沃格（Jackson J. Spielvogel），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学历史学名誉副教授。主要研究领域为宗教史、纳粹德国史和西方文明史，代表作有Western Civilization等。 译者 易丙兰， 北京大学历史学博士，现主要从事中国近现代史的教学科研工作。

Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time withTHE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY: to 1500. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understan...(展开全部)

威廉姆•J. 杜克（William J. Duiker），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学东亚学名誉教授。学术兴趣极为广泛，主要研究领域为民族主义和亚洲革命，其作品Ho Chi Minh：A Life（Hyperion 2000）曾提名2001年普利策奖。 杰克森•J. 斯皮尔沃格（Jackson J. Spielvogel），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学历史学名誉副教授。主要研究领域为宗教史、纳粹德国史和西方文明史，代表作有Western Civilization等。 译者 易丙兰， 北京大学历史学博士，现主要从事中国近现代史的教学科研工作。