This volume is devoted to Lewis's work in metaphysics and epistemology. Topics covered include properties, ontology, possibility, truthmaking, probability, the mind-body problem, vision, belief, and knowledge. The purpose of this collection, and the volumes that precede and follow it, is to disseminate more widely the work of an eminent and influential contemporary philosopher. The volume will serve as a useful work of reference for teachers and students of philosophy.

本书是对我们共同的、既有惯例概念进行分析，是自亚里士多德以来被哲学家们用来作为考察词语指称意义之任意特征的工具。作者将社会惯例作为解决反复出现之协调问题——以独立决策过程为特征的情境，而这些决策过程关乎着共同利益——的常规性进行分析。将惯例与其他类型的常规性进行比较，并且特别关注支配着交流沟通机制的那些惯例。本书对于哲学家、语言学家、社会科学研究者、法学理论研究者以及任何对惯例在社会行为和语言运作机理中所扮演的角色感兴趣的读者来说都是至关重要的一部著作。

Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions are contrasted with other kinds of regularity, and conventions governing systems of communication are given special attention.

本书通过探讨发展研究的基本要素，以及参与发展对人类学家而言意味着什么，缩小了发展与人类学的差距。其核心是对探讨人类学与发展关系的传统发展实践的人类学批评。作者认为，人类学与发展之间的双向对话是可能的，并提出了关于全球与地方、国家与社会、颁困与权力分界的重要问题。通过详细的个案研究与个案所提出的问题，作者概括了发展的主要社会问题，并指人类学视角对发展政策的制定与发展实践能够起到积极的作用。

The two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the agitator. Now, David Levering Lewis has carved one volume out of his superlative two-volume biography of this monumental figure that set the standard for historical scholarship on this era. In his magisterial prose, Lewis chronicles Du Bois's long and storied career, detailing the momentous contributions to our national character that still echo today.
W.E.B. Du Bois is a 1993 and 2000 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction and the winner of the 1994 and 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Through detailed case studies and the issues raised by them, Gardner and Lewis outline key social issues and problems of development, and conclude that anthropological perspectives can contribute positively to development policy and practice.