Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read - and to write. Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword's analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. "Stylish Academic Writing" showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.

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查尔斯•W. 艾略特（Charles W. Eliot，1834—1926），哈佛大学第21任校长，曾任美国中等教育十人委员会主席、美国进步教育协会第一任名誉主席，美国近代最伟大的教育家，被罗斯福总统誉为“共和国第一公民”。
自1869年上任，艾略特在哈佛大 学实施了一系列改革——主张自然科学与人文科学并重，积极倡导选修制，提高入学标准，加强教师队伍建设，开展研究生教育，倡导学术自由……这些教育改革措施对美国教育界乃至整个人类教育的进步产生了深远影响。在他的带领下，哈佛大学从偏安一隅的传统学院发展成为世界顶尖大学。
1909年从哈佛退休后，艾略特积极投身公共教育事业，并主编了闻名全球学术界的“哈佛经典”丛书，该丛书在五四时期即被胡适、赵元任等人介绍引进中国，又称“五尺丛书”。
本书详述查尔斯•艾略特长达40年的哈佛校长生涯，介绍了传主独特的教育思想以及在大学管理方面的卓越贡献，并从家庭环境、学校教育、人生经历等方面剖析其取得成功的原因，梳理出艾略特极富人文关怀的教育思想及其形成过程。
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艾略特不仅影响了哈佛大学的一切，而且使哈佛成为美国一流大学。从大西洋到太平洋，没有一所高校不受艾略特哈佛改革的深远影响……在美国，没有哪位教育家、大学校长、教授、教师或助教没有受到艾略特的直接影响。每一本教科书都按照他的标准修订，每一名学生都能感受到他有形的影响。就伟人的胸襟和永恒成就而言，我们发现同时代的美国人中，没人能与之匹敌。由于贡献卓越，他和爱默生及林肯一同成为那个时代国家的功臣。
——威廉•尼尔森（美国历史学家）
哈佛大学今天的辉煌源于历史……其中又以查尔斯•威廉•艾略特的功绩居首位。正是他的思想和实践扭转了哈佛大学的困境，使其成功地从一所地区性院校成长为一所国家性大学，为哈佛大学今后的国际教育界霸主地位奠定了基础。我国“十二五”教育规划纲要提出要提升本科教育质量，建设若干所世界一流大学，此时追溯世界一流大学哈佛大学的成长轨迹，研究其校长的本科教育思想和实践具有重要的现实意义。
——汪霞（南京大学教育研究院副院长）

两位备受敬重的哈佛神学院教授，一位基督徒，一位犹太人，合作讨论了这两个传统“复活”信仰的起源，以及两者之间的深刻而意义重大的联系，厘清了令人大吃一惊的事实：犹太人早在基督教出现之前很久就相信复活了。本书作为复活主题无与伦比的研究成果，展示了跨犹太教、基督教研究卓越的成果，堪称两教精英关于“复活”主题的典范和经典之作。集科学性、可靠性、新颖性和可读性于一书。

China has one of the longest continuous literary traditions in the world. From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing, both as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture outside the state. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and fiction, but also historical writing and other prose forms. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field, the History frequently challenges current scholarship, from taking recent archeological discoveries into consideration to understanding Chinese modernity not as a sudden rupture with the past but as part of a longer process. The History offers both an integrated narrative, situating literature in its larger cultural context, and an overview of the key developments of the past millennia accessible to non-specialist readers as well as scholars and students of Chinese.
Contents
Volume I: Introduction;
1. Early Chinese literature: beginnings through Western Han Martin Kern;
2. From the Eastern Han through the Western Jin (AD 25–317) David Knechtges;
3. From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317–649) Xiaofei Tian;
4. The Cultural Tang (650–1020) Stephen Owen;
5. The Northern Song (1020–1126) Ronald Egan;
6. North and South: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Michael Fuller and Shuen-fu Lin;
7. Literature from the Late Jin to the Early Ming: ca. 1230–ca. 1375 Stephen H. West; Bibliography; Glossary;
Index; Volume II: Introduction;
1. Literature of the Early Ming to Mid-Ming (1375–1572) Kang-i Sun Chang;
2. The literary culture of the Late Ming (1573–1644) Tina Lu;
3. Early Qing to 1723 Wai-yee Li;
4. The Literati Era and its demise (1723–1840) Shang Wei;
5. Prosimetric and verse narrative Wilt L. Idema;
6. Chinese literature from 1841 to 1937 David Der-wei Wang, Jing Tsu and Michel Hockx;
7. Chinese literature from 1937 to the present Michelle Yeh, Jing Tsu and Michel Hockx; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.

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我们的社会、我们的思潮、我们的正义观，正陷入尴尬的两难选择当中。我们甚至怀疑法律是否是公正的，因为法律无法回避个人的道德判断，无法做到中立性。我们能否找到另外一条道路，让我们的社会规范即体现人性，又体现客观性？“世界最受欢迎的老师之一”的迈克尔•桑德尔教授寻找的，正是我们期待的有关公正的第三条路径：培养我们每个人的德性，做出有道德的选择。