学问的开端，最好是这一学问的思想史。学术与学术思想史是相辅相成的。思想史相当于一幢装满“心智地图”的大厦，在那里，有遗存在传统里的各种思考。只要我们承认我们不是历史上出现过的最聪明最智慧的人，我们就要认真浏览这些心智地图，并很容易就注意到那些公认最聪明最智慧的人和他们关注和研究的问题，以及更重要的是，注意到他们认为重要却尚未澄清的问题。本书记录了作者对思想史关键问题的理解与思考过程，对思想史当中核心的“理解”“表达”“情境”“重要性”“个体与整全”“思维方式”等问题进行了深入的剖析与讨论。

Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are increasingly applied to observed network data and are central to understanding social structure and network processes. The chapters in this edited volume provide a self-contained, exhaustive account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of ERGMs, including models for univariate, multivariate, bipartite, longitudinal and social-influence type ERGMs. Each method is applied in individual case studies illustrating how social science theories may be examined empirically using ERGMs. The authors supply the reader with sufficient detail to specify ERGMs, fit them to data with any of the available software packages and interpret the results.

Santiago Ramon y Cajal was a mythic figure in science. Hailed as the father of modern anatomy and neurobiology, he was largely responsible for the modern conception of the brain. His groundbreaking works were New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System and Histology of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates. In addition to leaving a legacy of unparalleled scientific research, Cajal sought to educate the novice scientist about how science was done and how he thought it should be done. This recently rediscovered classic, first published in 1897, is an anecdotal guide for the perplexed new investigator as well as a refreshing resource for the old pro.
Cajal was a pragmatist, aware of the pitfalls of being too idealistic -- and he had a sense of humor, particularly evident in his diagnoses of various stereotypes of eccentric scientists. The book covers everything from valuable personality traits for an investigator to social factors conducive to scientific work.
--from amazon

王汎森先生的學術成就和學術著作大家都耳熟能詳，有很廣泛的影響。不過，過去十多年除了專業研究之外，作者曾作過一些通俗演講、寫過一些散篇文章，可能容易讓人忽略，這些不是學術論文的文章也都有啟發性，甚至在不同層面的價值也許和他的學術著作可以等量齊觀。這些演講或文章大多跟作者的專業沒有直接關係，卻多少表達了他對這個時代學術、文化狀況的觀察。選錄在本書中的文章大多是：既跟讀書研究有關，又超越僅僅是讀書研究範圍，從一個人文優先的角度出發看事情、從科技實證之外的人文精神層次出發考量問題、從人之所以為人的基本前提去考慮現代社會的發展，或是考慮知識創造過程中的人文面向，或是主張經濟活動中應該加入人文面向等。內容從讀書、研究展開，以關懷人文精神做結，也就是，從個人的研究工作擴展到知識分子的人文社會關懷。受科技、物質宰制的社會如果不回到「人之所以為人」的基礎上反思，總有一天人類會面臨不知「為何而生」的窘境。讀讀王汎森先生這些文章，可以讓我們在思考時多打一劑人文營養針。

本书通过缜密的逻辑演绎，将先前的国际关系学中散乱的术语整合到统一的理论框架中，广泛借鉴了其他学科（包括科学哲学、社会学、微观经济学）的理论成果。在书中，作者从排列原则、单元功能和权力分配三个角度界定了国际政治结构，认为结构是系统中的一系列约束条件，通过奖励一些行为、惩罚另一些行为而限制了国家的行为。

Interdisciplinarity is fast becoming as important outside academia as within. Academics, policy makers, and the general public seek methods and approaches to help organize and integrate the vast amounts of knowledge being produced, both within research and at all levels of education. Taking stock of interdisciplinarity as it nears its century mark, The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity constitutes a major new reference work on a topic of growing academic and societal importance. The collection is distinguished by its breadth of coverage, with chapters written by leading experts from multiple networks and organizations. The volume is edited by respected interdisciplinary scholars and supported by a prestigious advisory board to ensure the highest quality and breadth of coverage. The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity provides a synoptic overview of the current state of interdisciplinary research, education, administration and management, and problem solving-knowledge that spans the disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, and crosses the space between the academic community and society at large. Its 37 chapters and 15 case studies provide a snapshot of the state of knowledge integration. Offering the most broad-based account of inter- and transdisciplinarity to date, its original essays bring together many of the globe's leading thinkers on interdisciplinary research, education, and the institutional aspects of interdisciplinarity, as well as reflections on how knowledge is integrated into societal needs.

该研究力图以现象学的视角，重新反思现代社会科学的基本结构，由此达致这样一个核心理念：方法论问题以及作为方法论问题之核心的主体间性问题，本身就是现代性之表达——社会科学的问题，乃是现代人的问题。这就使社会科学成为真正能够贴近现代人并解答现代人在社会生活中诸多问题的科学。本书立意宏大，志向高远，填补了国内学界在西方当代社会思想史研究方面的一处空白，亦在理论上深化了国内的现象学社会学研究。
——杨善华（北京大学社会学系教授）
本书着力疏解现象学及社会学展开的学术传统与核心概念，并探求现代人内在最隐秘、最焦虑的生命处境，一反迄今现象学界较为形式化的研究方法，转入对于具体生命的关照。在这个意义上，对西方思想的研究深深打下了现代中国人自我认识的烙印，这是一种难得的学术追求。作者功力深厚，熟稔文本，却也能从思想本身的脉络中跳脱出来，呈现出生活经验的底色。有气韵，有深度，有活力。
——渠敬东（北京大学社会学系教授）

倾向值匹配法就是将各个受测单元多维度的信息，使用统计方法简化成一维的数值，成为倾向值，然后据之进行匹配，匹配的目的就是要找寻实验组和对照组样本中拥有相同（或者相似）倾向值的样本，它们之间的差异，就是因果关系。这个原理非常简单，但聪明的读者肯定会问，什么是多维度的信息？如何简化它？这都是倾向值匹配法的关键也是容易发生问题的地方。本书的第1章将简要介绍为什么要对多维信息进行降维处理，而第2章将进一步讲解这背后的理论背景。第3章选择了4篇学刊论文，对其中倾向值匹配方法的使用进行解析。第4章则就“应用R软件和STATA 软件实现倾向值匹配法”进行说明。
书中行文不可避免要使用到一些数学公式来辅助理论论述，对这些推演，作者尽可能以浅显易懂的文字对这些推演过程的原理进行说明，略过这些公式并不会妨碍读者对于理论的了解。

若将研究方法比作学术武功的“剑”，那么本书就是力求指点学子“用剑方遒”，而不浪费笔墨在“铸剑”的原理上。
认识Kenneth罗胜强教授的人都知道，他不但在管理研究领域硕果累累，而且对研究方法有自己独到的见解，更难得的是，他对科学研究与教学怀有神圣的、强烈的使命感，一直以来都倾其心血帮助刚开始接触管理研究的学生和学者学习如何用国际标准进行高质量的研究。除了所在院校正常的课堂教学和研究生指导工作，在过去的十年间，罗胜强教授几乎每年都利用自己的假期为内地高校的师生讲授研究方法。同时，他在中人网上开设了一个名为“服事人的”博客圈子，作为分享自己知识经验的平台，不厌其烦地回答学子们的各种问题。
《管理学问卷调查研究方法》作为罗胜强教授多年科研经验和教学经验的呈现，充分体现了循循善诱、深入细致的特点，而且对于问卷调查研究方法的细节和难点的把握，非常符合学子的实际需要。书中对于统计分析知识，进行选择性地呈现，不同程度和需求的读者可以各取所需。
《管理学问卷调查研究方法》是一本以中文写就的，写给有志做好管理研究的中国学者的书。书中假设读者没有太多的统计学或者是研究的基本知识。书中由浅入深。从什么是研究开始，一步步地带出管理研究的基础知识。从如何开始做研究，到什么是研究的理论，怎样读文献，然后到做基本研究的必要统计知识。从最简单的相关分析，到中介和调节作用，然后是结构方程建模、研究的层阶问题、多层阶的线性模型，到最近比较流行的中介调节和调节中介作用。作者希望通过这样方式的介绍，让读者对如何做管理研究有一个全面的理解。

This book chronicles my six years of working towards a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University from 2006 to 2012. A diverse variety of people can benefit from reading it, including:
undergraduates who might be interested in pursuing a Ph.D.,
current Ph.D. students who are seeking guidance or inspiration,
professors who want to better understand Ph.D. students,
employers who hire and manage people with Ph.D. degrees,
professionals working in any creative or competitive field where self-driven initiative is crucial,
and educated adults (or precocious kids) who are curious about how academic research is produced.

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.

一个世纪以来，消费主义的大潮让人无法独善其身，消费已经成为人们构建身份认同的渠道。本书紧扣“消费”这一线索，讲述了20世纪中国政治、经济、社会的诸多变化。在20世纪历史光影的诡谲多变中，购物和消费主义如何把这个古老的国家改造成今天的模样，消费者的集体面孔又是如何被一次 次地篡改与重塑。本书重新梳理了这背后繁复纷乱的历史线头与社会群像。
作者认为，在宏大的历史叙事之外，还隐藏着一个小体量的历史，它真实而琐碎地存在于我们的日常生活中，隐藏于每个家庭的锅碗瓢盆里，潜伏于我们目光无法达及的晦暗幽深处。由这些历史细节编织而成的，是消费主义在中国“本土化”的历史进程。每个消费者都是这段历史的见证者，他们在购物的同时，也在不知不觉中参与并改变着这段历史。

In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the “culture of fact” in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the Neo-Confucian school of evidentiary research and the modern departure from it, Lam shows how, through the rise of the social survey, “the fact” became a basic conceptual medium and source of truth. In focusing on China’s social survey movement, A Passion for Facts analyzes how information generated by a range of research practices—census, sociological investigation, and ethnography—was mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation.

不管是朋友圈里年入百万的斜杠青年，还是得到、喜马拉雅上的大师专家，无一不在刺激着在积极上进的年轻灵魂。有没有一种科学高效的，符合每个人思维规律的学习方法，可以让自己瞬间提升职场竞争力和商业生存力，以此走上财务自由、精神独立的人生巅峰。在本书中，你将掌握学习领域的终极规律：
为什么说天性懒惰孕育了认知规律和心智模型 / 只需 1 次自测，一周后回忆率从 28% 跃迁为 39% / 知识是平面的，复合型知识是立体的 / 哪些 “良性干扰”能提升学习效果 / 别在无法克服的学习困难上浪费时间 / 如何打造适合自己的心智模型 / 掌握几个适合自己的记忆技巧事半功倍……本书案例丰富，论点权威，是一本不容错过的认知科普读物。
总的来说，本书可以看作是认知科学目前在“如何更有效地学习”这个课题上取得的所有成果总结。读者能从中获取的，不仅是切实有效的学习方法，而且会对人脑的工作机制有更深的了解。

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.

《共同合作:集体行为、公共资源与实践中的多元方法》研究了不同方法如何促进与集体行为和公共资源有关的各种理论的发展，证明了涉及不同传统的多元方法研究交融互补的重要性，考察了交融互补难以实现的原因，并提出了通过合作克服这些挑战的方法。作者在书中提供了许多与集体行为和公共资源有关的合作、多元方法研究的案例。对案例研究、荟萃分析、大样本实地研究、实验和模型以及基于实证的行为人模型的优点和缺点进行了分析，并考察了这些方法对自然资源管理集体行为研究的贡献。《共同合作:集体行为、公共资源与实践中的多元方法》承认了影响和约束研究的学术动机，修订了集体行为理论，并为研究人员和学生提供了多学科的实际解决方案。

In this innovative approach to the practice of social science, Charles Ragin explores the use of fuzzy sets to bridge the divide between quantitative and qualitative methods. Paradoxically, the fuzzy set is a powerful tool because it replaces an unwieldy, "fuzzy" instrument (the variable, which establishes only the positions of cases relative to each other) with a precise one (degree of membership in a well-defined set). Ragin argues that fuzzy sets allow a far richer dialogue between ideas and evidence in social research than previously possible. They let quantitative researchers abandon "homogenizing assumptions" about cases and causes, they extend diversity-oriented research strategies, and they provide a powerful connection between theory and data analysis. Most important, fuzzy sets can be carefully tailored to fit evolving theoretical concepts, sharpening quantitative tools with in-depth knowledge gained through qualitative, case-oriented inquiry. This book should revolutionize research methods not only in sociology, political science and anthropology but in any field of inquiry dealing with complex patterns of causation.