For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered the level and distribution of wealth, population, education, and health acro...(展开全部)

昆廷·斯金纳(Skinner, Quentin)，1940年生，英国剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授，是西方学术界思想史研究主流“剑桥学派”的代表人物，其在学术界的地位如芬兰学者帕罗内所说，在思想史研究中掀起了“斯金纳的革命”。

昆廷·斯金纳(Skinner, Quentin)，1940年生，英国剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授，是西方学术界思想史研究主流“剑桥学派”的代表人物，其在学术界的地位如芬兰学者帕罗内所说，在思想史研究中掀起了“斯金纳的革命”。

The past quarter of a century has seen dramatic developments in social and political thought. These essays offer an indispensable introduction to some of the most influential amongst them. Quentin Skinner's Introduction traces broad transformations such as the erosion of empiricist assumptions and the undermining of the positivist ideal of the unification of the sciences by the...(展开全部)

昆廷·斯金纳(Skinner, Quentin)，1940年生，英国剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授，是西方学术界思想史研究主流“剑桥学派”的代表人物，其在学术界的地位如芬兰学者帕罗内所说，在思想史研究中掀起了“斯金纳的革命”。

昆廷·斯金纳(Skinner, Quentin)，1940年生，英国剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授，是西方学术界思想史研究主流“剑桥学派”的代表人物，其在学术界的地位如芬兰学者帕罗内所说，在思想史研究中掀起了“斯金纳的革命”。

The past quarter of a century has seen dramatic developments in social and political thought. These essays offer an indispensable introduction to some of the most influential amongst them. Quentin Skinner's Introduction traces broad transformations such as the erosion of empiricist assumptions and the undermining of the positivist ideal of the unification of the sciences by the...(展开全部)

Psychology is now ready for unified theories of cognition--so says Allen Newell, a leading investigator in computer science and cognitive psychology. Not everyone will agree on a single set of mechanisms that will explain the full range of human cognition, but such theories are within reach and we should strive to articulate them. In this book, Newell makes the case for unified...(展开全部)

Howard S. Becker is a name to conjure with on two continents —in the United States and in France. He has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more than fifty years to pathbreaking studies of deviance, professions, sociology of the arts, and a steady stream of books and articles on method. Becker, who lives part of the year in ...(展开全部)

The Habsburg Empire (TM)s grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Its army was not renowned for offensive prowess, its finances wer...(展开全部)