Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.
Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the terrain it allegedly covers. He argues that while anthropologists have oriented themselves to the study of the “strangeness of the non-European world” and to what are seen as non-rational dimensions of social life (things like myth, taboo, and religion),the modern and the secular have not been adequately examined.
The conclusion is that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational. It is a category with a multi-layered history, related to major premises of modernity, democracy, and the concept of human rights. This book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, religious studies scholars, as well as scholars working on modernity.

《就业、利息和货币通论》认为失业除了传统经济学认为的摩擦失业和自愿失业外，还有一种非自愿失业，其原因是有效需求不足，有效需求是批商品总供给价格与总需求价格达到均衡时的总需求，由于总供给在短期内不会有大的变动，所以失业是因为总需求或有效需求不足。有效需求包括投资需求和消费需求，有效需求不足是消费需求和投资需求不足的结果。后者又是因为消费倾向、对资本未来收益的预期和对货币的流动偏好三个心理因素的作用。消费需求不足是因消费倾向递减，使消费的增长赶不上收入的增长。投资需求不足是因为资本效率递减和流动偏好，前者是指投资利润率的下降，后者是指人们保留现金偏好。
因此，凯恩斯主张政府要想办法促进有效需求，办法是：增加工资以增加消费，采用累进税增加穷人收入，实行赤字预算与适度的通货膨胀政策。他认为，刺激投资比刺激消费更重要。它有乘数效应。在研究方法上，它将传统经济学的供给本身创造需求理论基础上的充分就业均衡看作是特例，而将小于充分就业的均衡看作常态，由此构造能包容原有经济学在内的更具有一般性的理论。

《和声的结构功能》是勋伯格写作的最后一本完整的理论著作。是勋伯格在洛杉矶加州大学开设的和声必修课的教材。《和声的结构功能》阐述了他对古典时期和浪漫时期的和声的最终见解。开头的几章是根据他的和声学的原则而作出的札要，以后的几章开辟了崭新的理论研究道路：调性的相互关系、调性的扩张以及为不同的结构目的而采用的各种创作手法。