Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. Completely updated for Python 3, the recipes in this book include: Data structures and algorithms Strings and text Dates and times Metaprogramming Testing With scores of practical examples and pertinent background information, the Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition is the one source you need if you're looking to build efficient, flexible, scalable, and well-integrated systems.

本书是从保罗·亨利·郎格的《西方文明中的音乐》一书中节选了十九世纪西方音乐的的部分进行的翻译。

What makes science different from other ways of investigating the world? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith uses debates--such as the problem of confirmation, the new riddle of induction, and the problem of scientific realism--as a way to introduce, in a completely accessible way, the main themes in the philosophy of science. Intended for undergraduates and general readers with no prior background in philosophy, Theory and Reality starts by surveying the last hundred years of work in the field. It covers logical positivism; induction and confirmation; Karl Popper's theory of science; Thomas Kuhn and "scientific revolutions"; the radical views of Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan, and Paul Feyerabend; and challenges to the field from sociology of science, feminism, and science studies. The book then looks in detail at some of the broader philosophical issues at stake, such as philosophical naturalism, scientific realism, theories of explanation in science, Bayesianism, and other modern theories of evidence. Finally, Godfrey-Smith presents his own proposal for approaching the philosophy of science. Throughout the text he points out connections between philosophical debates and wider discussions about science in recent decades, such as the infamous "science wars." Examples and asides engage the beginning student, a glossary of terms explains key concepts, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates in language that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow.

该书原是为一本地图写的序言和说明。其内容是先综述当时所知的全世界的地域划分、海洋、岛屿、山脉、河流与沙漠。没有包括南北美洲和大洋洲。然后将世界按国家与地域分别叙述。每叙述一个国家或地区时，先交代其边境四至及概况，然后介绍其城镇、省、区的地理、民族、物产、景物、风俗习惯等。
该书不但集中反映了当时阿拉伯地理学的成就，而且比流传下来的阿拉伯地理著作更为详细地谈到突厥人的领地，并概括介绍了中亚的非穆斯林地区。写作年代与中国宋朝王延德出使高昌同时，因此可将它与当时的汉文史料结合起来研究，有助于了解中国唐宋之际中亚的民族、历史状况。

该书在以往研究的基础上，全面系统地收集和梳理了新疆地区青铜时代晚期到早期铁器时代的考古资料，按区域选择重点遗址进行类型学分析，构建出新疆三个主要地区青铜时代晚期到早期铁器时代考古学文化的分期与年代，并进行了地方类型的划分和文化渊源的 探讨，对内部和外部考古学文化之间的关系作出了相应分析。在上述基础上，还简要探讨新疆地区史前文化与社会的演进变迁。

俄罗斯“民族诗人”天才作家莱蒙托夫，虽然仅在世上生活了二十七个年头，但他以四百四十九首抒情诗和二十七篇长诗攀上了俄罗斯浪漫主义诗歌的顶峰，在读者心目中树立起一尊“自由之子”的雕像，飘扬着一面反抗暴政的大旗，唱响了一首首昂扬的战歌。不仅如此，他的《假面舞会》等戏剧，使他赢得戏剧家的荣誉；《当代英雄》等小说，更开创了俄罗斯现实主义小说的未来，成为屠格涅夫、列夫·托尔斯泰、陀思妥耶夫斯基等人心理描写小说的先驱。在这套国内的第一部莱蒙托夫的全集中，抒情诗的翻译以1989年的俄语原版为底本，其他作品以1986年版为底本，堪称最新最完备。力冈等十一位俄苏文学的专家及著名翻译家的鼎力合作，也使本书的翻译水平得到了根本保证。
莱蒙托夫(1814～1841)，俄国诗人。1814年10月15日生于莫斯科。1828年入贵族寄宿中学，此时开始写诗。1834年于士官学校毕业，被派到彼得堡近郊近卫军骠骑兵团服役。1835年第一次发表作品长诗《哈吉—阿勃列克》，开始引起注意。同年写了剧本《假面舞会》，主人公是一个反抗上流社会的悲剧性人物。1837年 2月8 日普希金在决斗中受伤，两日后逝世。莱蒙托夫写了《诗人之死》一诗，指出杀死普希金的凶手就是俄国整个上流社会。这篇诗震动了整个俄国文坛，他被公认为普希金的继承人。
莱蒙托夫于1840年4月出版的长篇小说《当代英雄》，在高加索广阔的背景上展开了主人公毕巧林的复杂的性格，毕巧林是俄罗斯文学中继普希金的奥涅金之后又一个“多余的人”形象。《当代英雄》虽然带有浪漫主义色彩，但主要是现实主义的作品，结构完美，并富有特色，心理分析细致，语言准确优美，成为俄国文学中最早最出色的长篇小说之一。
长诗《恶魔》和《童僧》，是莱蒙托夫浪漫主义创作的最高成就，但都洋溢着现实主义的气氛。恶魔和童僧这两个性格，可以概括诗人全部作品中的形象。前者是个人主义者，后者则是自由的战士。1841年 7月27日诗人在一次决斗中被杀害。莱蒙托夫没有活到二十七岁，他成熟期的创作活动只有短短四年，但他的作品对俄国文学作出了巨大的贡献。在展示人物内心生活的心理描写方面他是俄国文学中的先驱，后来为陀思妥耶夫斯基、列·托尔斯泰等所师承和发展。

This book is about governmental change in America. It examines the reconstruction of institutional power relationships that had to be negotiated among the courts, the parties, the president, the Congress and the states in order to accommodate the expansion of national administrative capacities around the turn of the twentieth century. Stephen Skowronek argues that new institutional forms and procedures do not arise reflexively or automatically in response to environmental demands on government, but must be extorted through political and institutional struggles that are rooted in and mediated by pre-established governing arrangements. As the first full-scale historical treatment of the development of American national administration, this book will provide a useful textbook for public administration courses.

"Funkenstein's powerful essay belongs to that genre of intellectual history which has addressed itself to... the metaphysical foundations of modern science. As such, it is almost exclusively concerned with affinities and tensions between ideas. And traced they are with consummate skill... Liberation from naive conceptions of historical continuity gives Funkenstein leave to concentrate on a finely nuanced exegesis of those philosophers who fall within his purview. The result is a work of discernment and distinction."--J. H. Brooke, The Times Higher Education Supplement

An essential guide to the trouble spots and oddities of R. In spite of the quirks exposed here, R is the best computing environment for most data analysis tasks. R is free, open-source, and has thousands of contributed packages. It is used in such diverse fields as ecology, finance, genomics and music. If you are using spreadsheets to understand data, switch to R. You will have safer -- and ultimately, more convenient -- computations.

Robert Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules - social norms - without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship in law, economics, sociology, game theory and anthropology, Ellickson investigates the uncharted world within which order is successfully achieved without law.

A manifesto for and an example of a new kind of history, a biological history, and not just of the prehistoric era Scientists have long believed that the 'great leap forward' that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked the end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunning account of our evolutionary history, top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending reject this conventional wisdom and reveal that the human species has undergone a storm of genetic change much more recently. Human evolution in fact accelerated after civilisation arose, they contend, and these ongoing changes have played a pivotal role in human history. They argue that biology explains the expansion of the Indo-Europeans, the European conquest of the Americas, and European Jews' rise to intellectual prominence. In each of these cases, the key was recent genetic change: adult milk tolerance in the early Indo-Europeans that allowed for a new way of life, increased disease resistance among the Europeans settling America, and new versions of neurological genes among European Jews. Ranging across subjects as diverse as human domestication, Neanderthal hybridization, and IQ tests, Cochran and Harpending's analysis demonstrates convincingly that human genetics have changed and can continue to change much more rapidly than scientists have previously believed. A provocative and fascinating look at human evolution, "The 10,000 Year Explosion" reveals the ongoing interplay between culture and biology in the making of the human race.

一名《大唐三藏法师取经记》。话本。作者不详。世多以为宋刊，鲁迅认为作者或为元人。三卷。叙述唐玄奘取经故事，其中猴行者为主要人物（原本描写唐僧取经故事中都是以唐僧为主人公，而在这本话本中则改为猴行者-孙悟空的原型）他为扶助三藏法师大显神通。但情节比较简单，无猪八戒形象，有降伏深沙神的描写（可能为沙僧原型）略具明代小说《西游记》的雏形。

我们正处在有史以来最能改变人类生活的技术革命漩涡的中心。60年在人类历史上只是一瞬间。在最近的这60年中一个技术发现引发了百舸争流，随之产生了遍布全球的一系列变革，带给人类前所未有的冲击。这些变革在全球范围内，持续加速改变着人类生存方式的基本核心。更重要的是，这些变革还仅仅处在初期阶段!
约翰·D·雷克斯勒专著的《硅星球(微电子学与纳米技术革命)》介绍了微电子学和纳米技术的一般知识和工程基础，并探讨了这场新的科技革命正如何在各学科领域甚至整个人类文明中引起广泛的变革。本书使用浅显易懂的语言，浅明的数学知识，将众多微电子和纳米科学的神奇之处展现出来，包括半导体、晶体管、集成电路、光导纤维、手机、电子邮件、数字电视、纳米机器人等等，读者即使只有很少甚至没有技术背景，也可以顺利阅读。
《硅星球(微电子学与纳米技术革命)》在附录中还补充了基本的物理和电气工程知识，需要的读者可以进行查阅。

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Palaeolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second millennium BC. Li Liu and Xingcan Chen demonstrate that sociopolitical evolution was multicentric and shaped by inter-polity factionalism and competition, as well as by the many material technologies introduced from other parts of the world. The book illustrates how ancient Chinese societies were transformed during this period from simple to complex, tribal to urban, and preliterate to literate.
• Covers major topics including the roles of agricultural development, advancing social complexity and state formation in ancient China • Considers the origins of archaic states in the Yellow River valley • Includes discussion of regional interactions within China and between China and the outside world

《环与代数》主要介绍国内外环与代数的最新研究成果和发展方向，在第一版的基础上，除删除了一些陈旧内容外，还增添关于分次环、路代数、箭图表示、有限表示型箭图4章，力图向读者介绍分次环、箭图及其表示最基本的知识，使之能够了解和进入环与代数当前研究的一些非常具有活力的领域。我们将介绍分次环、分次模、分次Artin环、Smash积、分次本原环、箭图的路代数、路代数的性质、路代数的张量积和箭图的直积；箭图表示的基本内容、箭图表示的Auslander-Reiten理论；Dynkin图及其表示，Betaastein-Gelfand-Ponomarev反射函子，有限表示型的箭图的刻画（Gabriel定理）等内容。
《环与代数》适合数学及相关专业高年级大学生、研究生、教师及科研人员阅读参考。

《民法思维:请求权基础理论体系(最新版)》旨在建构请求权基础的理论体系，期能为民法实务提供可资遵循的思维及论证方法，以增进法律适用的合理性及客观性。《民法思维:请求权基础理论体系(最新版)》重视方法论上的运用，所设实例主要针对民法领域重要的基本问题，并多引用判例学说及德国法的理论，有助于读者理解相关法律的解释适用，对民法的学习应有助益，《民法思维:请求权基础理论体系(最新版)》对于大陆和台湾地区民法的比较研究也应有所助益。
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Jeff Speck has spent his career determining what makes a city work, and he has boiled it down to one essential factor: walkability. For urban life to thrive, cities must prioritize pedestrians over cars. Six-lane highways tearing through downtown must give way to crossable streets, massive parking lots must give way to pedestrian plazas, architecture designed to be appreciated from afar must give way to welcoming buildings. Making all of this happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing what needs to be done is the trick. Speck can show us the invisible workings underneath the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can make the right decisions for our cities. Cities have been recognized as the key to sustainable living. But New York, San Francisco, Chicago, D.C. - these are not the next great American cities, and they are not where the future of urban life will be formed. Most Americans live in midsize cities - Lowell, Massachusetts; Tacoma, Washington; Grand Rapids, Michigan - that need downtowns that are vibrant and appealing; they need to feel like the urban hubs that they are. They need walkability. Bursting with sharp observations and real-world examples, giving key insight to what urban planners actually do and how cities can and do change, "Walkable City" lays out a practical, necessary, and eminently achievable vision of how to make our American cities work.

At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma.The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds.The Expressiveness of the Body meditates on the contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. It asks how this most basic of human realities came to be conceived by two sophisticated civilizations in radically diverging ways. And it seeks answers in fresh and unexpected topics, such as the history of tactile knowledge, the relationship between ways of seeing and ways of listening, and the evolution of bloodletting.