This text focuses particularly on questions of time, events and causality. The author, Andrew Abbott, grounds each essay in straightforward examinations of social scientific analysis.

What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss turning points as they transpire? When does what doesn't happen mean as much, if not more, than what does? Andrew Abbott considers these fascinating questions in Time Matters, a diverse series of essays that constitutes the most extensive analysis of temporality in social science today. Ra...(展开全部)

The history of political thought : a methodological inquiry Working on ideas in time Verbalizing a political act : towards a politics of speech Political ideas as historical events : political philosophers as historical actors The reconstruction of discourse : towards the historiography of political thought The concept of a language and the métier d'historien : some considerat...(展开全部)

John Pocock is arguably the most original and imaginative historian of ideas of modern times. Over the past half century he has created an audience for his work which is truly global, and he has marked the way in which the history of political thought is studied as deeply and personally as any historian of the period. The essays in this major new collection are selected from a ...(展开全部)

【 作者简介】 B.盖伊·彼得斯密歇根州立大学博士，国际著名政治学家和公共行政学家，1996年至今担任美国匹兹堡大学政治学系教授，美国政府莫里斯·福尔克（Maurice Falk）教授，1997年起任中国香港城市大学名誉教授，1978—1983年任美国杜兰大学公共政策与政治学教授。主要研究领域包括比较公共政策与行政、美国公共行政、比较政治学、比较研究方法等。著有《政治科学中的制度理论：新制度主义（第三版）》等。 【 译者简介】 郝诗楠现任上海外国语大学国际关系与公共事务学院比较政治系副教授、政治学理论专业博士生导师，兼任上海市政治学会副秘书长。先后获得华东政法大学法学学士（2009）、英国伦敦政治经济学院国际关系学硕士（2010）、复旦大学政治学博士（2014）；德国图宾根大学汉学系暨欧洲当代台湾研究中心访问学者（2013）。主要研究方向为比较政治学...(展开全部)

笛卡尔（1569-1650），生于法国西部，8岁时被送到欧洲当时最有名的学校之一的拉夫赖公学学习。1616年获得法学硕士学位。1639年，他用拉丁文写了他最著名的著作《第一哲学沉思录》。1644年出版了《哲学原理》，1649年出版了《论灵魂的激情》。

Time Series: Theory and Methods is a systematic account of linear time series models and their application to the modelling and prediction of data collected sequentially in time. The aim is to provide specific techniques for handling data and at the same time to provide a thorough understanding of the mathematical basis for techniques. Both time and frequency domain methods are...(展开全部)

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and conse...(展开全部)

Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee's unique integrated approach which incorporates both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. The third edition o...(展开全部)