The Power of Logic renders balanced coverage of informal and formal logic in concise, accurate, and lively prose, making it the most accessible introductory logic text available. The text' s plentiful examples, imaginative exercises, and numerous visual aids help students develop their critical thinking skills as they put the powerful tools of logic to work.

This brief and flexible introductory level text is designed to illustrate the power of logic as a tool for critical thinking in various facets of life by increasing students' ability to understand, analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments. The Power of Logic provides balanced coverage of informal logic, traditional categorical logic, and modern symbolic logic. The authors' di...(展开全部)

This fifth edition of The Power of Logic offers an introduction to informal logic, traditional categorical logic, and modern symbolic logic. The authors' direct and accessible writing style, along with a wealth of engaging examples and challenging exercises, makes this an ideal text for today's logic classes.

Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sen...(展开全部)

In "The Logic of Life", Francois Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.

Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sen...(展开全部)

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing...(展开全部)

爱德华·杰·艾普斯坦（Edward Jay Epstein，1935— ），于康乃尔大学和哈佛大学攻读政治学，1973年取得哈佛大学博士学位，其硕士论文以追寻政治真相为题材（Inquest：The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth），博士论文以电视新闻为题材（Neus from Nowhere）,两篇论文皆已出版成书。爱德华原本在MIT和UCLA教授政治学，后来觉得写书的教化功能更强而专事写作。现居美国纽约市。 译者简介 宋伟航，台大历史系、台大历史研究所中国艺术史组毕业。曾任出版编辑，现专事翻译。译有《我的动物天堂》《补缀的星球》《人类大世纪》《重拾山居岁月》《灵魂考》《酷男的异想世界》《丘吉尔：乐在危险的人生》《我在DK的出版岁月》《秃鹰律师》《无辜主人》《帮凶律师》等书。