In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to r...(展开全部)

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and ...(展开全部)

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously 'tames' a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate's apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere. Feminists have been divided ...(展开全部)

美国当代著名小说家、文学评论家。生于1941年，毕业于美国杜克大学，20世纪60年代开始写作。著有《思家小馆的晚餐》、《呼吸课》、《意外旅客》等作品。1988年，凭借《呼吸课》获得普利策文学奖。 安•泰勒擅长家庭题材，她写小说有如匠人，细致而精准地还原普通人生活的真相：没有绝对的幸福，也没有绝对的苦痛，家也好，爱也好，都需要你像接纳美好一样去直面人性的幽暗。

This survey of Western political thought ranges from Aristotle to "The Federalist Papers", showing how the doctrine of executive power arose and how it has developed to the present day. Although there were various "proto-executives", from Roman dictators to Christian kings, the modern executive first appears with Machiavelli's "The Prince". Yet Machiavelli's strong - even cruel...(展开全部)

一行禅师(Thich Nhat Hanh)，1926年出生于越南中部的广治省。16岁出家，23岁受具足戒。1962年前往美国普林斯顿大学钻研比较宗教，越战期间返乡从事和平运动。后旅居法国，长期从事难民救援工作，并于法国、美国与德国成立多所正念禅修中心及寺院。1982年，在法国南部建立梅村禅修中心(Plum Village)，并赴世界各地弘法。迄今已有上百本著作风行于世，为当今世界最负盛名的佛教领袖之一。

Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series ...(展开全部)

Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series ...(展开全部)

Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their domi...(展开全部)

Lack of ability to think probabilistically makes one prone to a variety of irrational fears and vulnerable to scams designed to exploit probabilistic naivete, impairs decision making under uncertainty, facilitates the misinterpretation of statistical information, and precludes critical evaluation of likelihood claims. Cognition and Chance presents an overview of the information...(展开全部)