Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces the historical evolution of concepts such as guilt, conscience, responsibility, law and justice. This i...(展开全部)

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1979, has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality. Raz begins by presenting an analysis of the concept of authority and what is involved in law's claim to moral authority. He then develops a detailed explanation of the nature of law and legal systems, presenting a s...(展开全部)

约瑟夫．拉兹（Joseph Raz），牛津大学法哲学教授、巴利奥尔学院（Balliol College）研究员，哥伦比亚大学法学院法理学访问教授。主要从事法律、道德和政治哲学教学与研究工作，在法理学、政治哲学、道德与实践理性领域颇有建树。拉兹是当代道德、法律与政治领域最杰出的学者之一。 拉兹1963年毕业于耶路撒冷希伯来大学；1967年获牛津大学哲学博士学位；1972年成为牛津大学巴利奥尔学院法学研究员和导师；自1977年在哲学系工作，1985年牛津大学为了表彰拉兹在法哲学领域的杰出贡献，专门为他新设了一个学术职位：法哲学教授。拉兹曾先后在多所著名大学做过访问教授，如洛克菲勒大学，加利福尼亚大学，耶鲁大学，普林斯顿大学，密歇根大学，澳大利亚国家学院，等。 拉兹是英国研究院研究员、美国人文与自然科学院名誉会员。主要著作有：《法律体系的概念——一种法律体...(展开全部)

Updated for the first time, the classic book on why cooperation is not only natural but also the best survival strategy The Evolution of Cooperation addresses a simple yet age-old question: If living things evolve through competition, how can cooperation ever emerge? Despite the abundant evidence of cooperation all around us, there existed no purely naturalistic answer to t...(展开全部)

Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellery, kingshi...(展开全部)

In this absorbing commentary on the discovery of the atom's constituents, Steven Weinberg accomplishes a brilliant fusion of history and science. This is in effect two books, cleverly interwoven. One is an account of a sequence of key events in the physics of the twentieth century, events that led to the discoveries of the electron, proton and neutron. The other is an introduct...(展开全部)

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and th...(展开全部)

Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English-from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture wit...(展开全部)

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and th...(展开全部)