The Norwegian French master of the noir graphic novel deploys a more-or-less full palette, albeit very tonally subdued (don't expect blood reds or sky blues), and several panels whose perspectives are as much as 30 degrees from the horizontal (hitherto a rarity in his work) to tell a story that an only slightly less gloomy David Goodis might have written. Alex is in seriously d...(展开全部)

[美] 约翰·布罗克曼（John Brockman）编著 • 美国著名的文化推动者、出版人，“第三种文化”领军人。 • “世界上最聪明的网站”（《卫报》赞誉）Edge的创始人。 • 他旗下汇集了一大批世界顶尖的科学家和思想家，每年就同一话题进行跨学科讨论。

[美] 约翰·布罗克曼（John Brockman）编著 • 美国著名的文化推动者、出版人，“第三种文化”领军人。 • “世界上最聪明的网站”（《卫报》赞誉）Edge的创始人。 • 他旗下汇集了一大批世界顶尖的科学家和思想家，每年就同一话题进行跨学科讨论。

This book explores the far-reaching implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization and prototype theory, extending the application of prototype theory from lexical semantics to morphology, syntax, and phonology. Providing a clear and readable introduction to the field of cognitive linguistics, this acclaimed book has now been updated with a new chapter.

Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as a way of advancing knowledge...(展开全部)

Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines, in this book, the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion, Professor Quine pinpoints the difficulties involved in translation, ...(展开全部)

Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year” by Time magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New...(展开全部)

Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year” by Time magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New...(展开全部)