Nineteenth-century studies of the Orient changed European ideas and cultural institutions in more ways than we usually recognize. 'Orientalism' certainly contributed to European empire-building, but it also helped to destroy a narrow Christian-classical canon. This carefully researched book provides the first synthetic and contextualized study of German Orientalistik, a subject of special interest because German scholars were the pacesetters in oriental studies between about 1830 and 1930, despite entering the colonial race late and exiting it early. The book suggests that we must take seriously German orientalism's origins in Renaissance philology and early modern biblical exegesis and appreciate its modern development in the context of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates about religion and the Bible, classical schooling, and Germanic origins. In ranging across the subdisciplines of Orientalistik, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire introduces readers to a host of iconoclastic characters and forgotten debates, seeking to demonstrate both the richness of this intriguing field and its indebtedness to the cultural world in which it evolved.

A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world.
Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, has significantly improved our understanding of, among other things, financial variability and erratic physical phenomena. In The Fractalist, Mandelbrot recounts the high points of his life with exuberance and an eloquent fluency, deepening our understanding of the evolution of his extraordinary mind. We begin with his early years: born in Warsaw in 1924 to a Lithuanian Jewish family, Mandelbrot moved with his family to Paris in the 1930s, where he was mentored by an eminent mathematician uncle. During World War II, as he stayed barely one step ahead of the Nazis until France was liberated, he studied geometry on his own and dreamed of using it to solve fresh, real-world problems. We observe his unusually broad education in Europe, and later at Caltech, Princeton, and MIT. We learn about his thirty-five-year affiliation with IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center and his association with Harvard and Yale. An outsider to mainstream scientific research, he managed to do what others had thought impossible: develop a new geometry that combines revelatory beauty with a radical way of unfolding formerly hidden laws governing utter roughness, turbulence, and chaos.
Here is a remarkable story of both the man’s life and his unparalleled contributions to science, mathematics, and the arts.

Causal inference is a complex scientific task that relies on evidence from multiple sources and a variety of methodological approaches. By providing a cohesive presentation of concepts and methods that are currently scattered across journals in several disciplines, Causal Inference: What If provides an introduction to causal inference for scientists who design studies and analyze data. The book is divided into three parts of increasing difficulty: causal inference without models, causal inference with models, and causal inference from complex longitudinal data.FEATURES:
- Emphasizes taking the causal question seriously enough to articulate it with sufficient precision
- Shows that causal inference from observational data relies on subject-matter knowledge and therefore cannot be reduced to a collection of recipes for data analysis
- Describes causal diagrams, both directed acyclic graphs and single-world intervention graphs
- Explains various data analysis approaches to estimate causal effects from individual-level data, including the g-formula, inverse probability weighting, g-estimation, instrumental variable estimation, outcome regression, and propensity score adjustment
- Includes software and real data examples, as well as 'Fine Points' and 'Technical Points' throughout to elaborate on certain key topicsCausal Inference: What If has been written for all scientists that make causal inferences, including epidemiologists, statisticians, psychologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, computer scientists, and more. The book is substantially class-tested, as it has been used in dozens of universities to teach courses on causal inference at graduate and advanced undergraduate level.

Today's leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman's objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve business and organizational problems. System dynamics is both a currently utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level, and a field of study in business, engineering, and social and physical sciences.

Only human beings have a rich conceptual repertoire with concepts like tort, entropy, Abelian group, mannerism, icon and deconstruction. How have humans constructed these concepts? And once they have been constructed by adults, how do children acquire them? While primarily focusing on the second question, in The Origin of Concepts, Susan Carey shows that the answers to both overlap substantially.
Carey begins by characterizing the innate starting point for conceptual development, namely systems of core cognition. Representations of core cognition are the output of dedicated input analyzers, as with perceptual representations, but these core representations differ from perceptual representations in having more abstract contents and richer functional roles. Carey argues that the key to understanding cognitive development lies in recognizing conceptual discontinuities in which new representational systems emerge that have more expressive power than core cognition and are also incommensurate with core cognition and other earlier representational systems. Finally, Carey fleshes out Quinian bootstrapping, a learning mechanism that has been repeatedly sketched in the literature on the history and philosophy of science. She demonstrates that Quinian bootstrapping is a major mechanism in the construction of new representational resources over the course of childrens cognitive development.
Carey shows how developmental cognitive science resolves aspects of long-standing philosophical debates about the existence, nature, content, and format of innate knowledge. She also shows that understanding the processes of conceptual development in children illuminates the historical process by which concepts are constructed, and transforms the way we think about philosophical problems about the nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.

分析哲学是20世纪最主要的两大哲学流派之一，自摩尔、罗素以来，大师辈出，经典产品层出不穷，可以说，整个改变了西方哲学的面貌。本书是探讨20世纪分析哲学的一部巨著，作者是著名的分析哲学家，在书中详尽地考察了从摩尔、罗素、维特根斯坦到蒯因、克里普克等大师的哲学思想，对其在哲学史上的主要贡献做了极其精彩的分析，对其论证中的不足同样做了犀利的批评。可以说，本书必将作为一部经典的哲学史而流传后世。
分析传统的出现，部分源自对十九世纪形而上学观念论的回应，部分源自逻辑的新发展、逻辑与数学的关系以及逻辑在理解和阐释语言意义中的作用。最初，逻辑和语言中的新旨趣集中在对重要概念的分析上，以期找到解决传统哲学问题的新方案。但不久之后，占据主导地位的分析哲学家开始相信，逻辑上的和语言上的新技术需要一种新的哲学观念——在这种新观念中，那些在过去由不可解的、最终说来是误解性的问题所产生的无休止的辩论，将被富有成效的、系统性的哲学探究所取代，这些探究所针对的问题虽然具有挑战性，但完全是可理解的并最终可解决的。然而，人们很快就发现这种宏大的转变不会成功，因为二十世纪三十和四十年代的哲学家用他们精确的分析技术证明，哲学的这种转变将会面临无法修复的缺陷。第一卷讲述的正是上述故事。

一年一度的圣诞节又到了。全家忙着外出欢度圣诞假期，不料忙中出错，将家里最小的成员——8岁的凯文（麦考利•卡尔金 Macaulay Culkin　饰）留在了家里。爸爸妈妈急坏了，可此时他们已经身在外地，一时亦无可奈何。倒是凯文乐坏了，难得一个人在家，凯文将家里布置成了“游乐场”。
两个刚出狱的窃贼将目光瞄向了凯文家。当他们鬼鬼祟祟的踏入凯文家时，凯文凭借自己的醒目和家里的“游乐场机关”，和两个笨贼玩起了“游戏”，笑料百出。凯文最后能否这场“游戏”的胜利？

★中譯首本人體交易秘辛紀實
★媒體雜誌書評一致推薦
★讓人震驚的人體與人體器官販售真相
★收錄超過20張作者在訪探時所拍攝的真實照片
這份深入的報告書引領讀者踏上驚異之旅，
進入毛骨悚然的全球化黑社會，
一探器官、人骨、活人買賣的人體市場。
不要再說什麼叢林深處的食人族了，
當今的人類對人肉的欲望程度才是史上最高的。
我們需要大量的人體原料，提供屍體給醫學院，讓那些未來的準醫生們能夠充分認識人體解剖學；領養機構把第三世界的數千名兒童送到第一世界，填補美國家庭單位裡的斷裂；製藥公司需要活人來測試下一代的超級藥物；美容產業每年要處理數百萬磅的人類頭髮，以因應消費者對新髮型永不休止的渴望。
這是一本作者闡述自己走訪最黑暗的全球人體市場的旅程，揭露市場上每樁血淋淋交易的殘忍真相。在這裡，你可以兜售自己身體的每個器官，也可以買到任何一個你需要的身體部位。穿梭在此市集的往來者，不是器官掮客、人骨竊盜者、血牛、販賣孩子的人口販子，就是身體有殘缺或是年邁老者的賣家。他們在吵雜市集上叫賣一顆腎臟的價錢，甚至也租賃一個女人的子宮。
調查記者史考特．卡尼耗時五年，現場追蹤獲利高且祕而不宣的人體以及人體部位貿易，此一龐大又隱密的經濟體稱為「人體市場」。他揭露出各種人體交易，有駭人聽聞的，也有荒謬至極的，例如：人稱「腎臟村」的印度村莊，之所以有此一稱號，是因為多數村民都為了錢賣掉自己的腎臟；肆無忌憚的盜墓人從墓園、太平間、火葬用的木柴堆裡偷竊人骨，製成西方醫學院與實驗室的解剖示範用骨骸；某座古老的寺廟將虔誠信徒的頭髮賣給美國的假髮製造商，年收入高達六百萬美元。
《人體交易》揭露了此一產值高達數十億美元的地下貿易在歷史上的興衰和復興，並描繪早期的醫療研究和現代大學，赤貧的歐亞村落和高科技的西方實驗室，盜屍人和代理孕母，人骨販子和賣身體部位維生的窮人。雖然地方上和國際上的執法人員均嚴格取締人體交易，但是科學的進步卻造成市場上對人體組織－－韌帶、腎臟，甚至是租賃子宮－－的需求日益增長，讓人少有餘裕去思量血肉貿易固有的道德難題。
本書共分為十個章節，分別探討：人骨交易、腎臟買賣、販嬰、卵子販售、子宮租賃、賣血、人體臨床實驗、長生不老解藥幹細胞、人髮捐贈。
《人體交易》使讀者得以窺見種種不忍卒睹卻發人深省的景況，令人大開眼界的離奇怪誕現象，並了解此一鮮為人知的全球人體產業，及其對人們的生活所造成的影響。

朱妮（洛丽泰·扬 Loretta Young 饰）是美国最著名的“老姑娘”，一次偶然中，她和一位名叫提摩西（雷·米兰德 Ray Milland 饰）的男子搭乘同一辆车回城，没想到被记者拍到了，记者将他两误认为了夫妻，在报纸上大肆报道，很快便引起了轰动。
朱妮和提摩西发现，这一误会反而给他们带来了意料之外的福利，于是决定假扮夫妻维持这个谎言，可是，知道他们真正的生活在一起后才发现，两个人无论是生活习惯还是个性上都矛盾多多，在一次又一次的摩擦和争吵中，朱妮和提摩西都感到对方令自己难以忍受，可如今他们早已骑虎难下，两人该如何处理这段斩不断理还乱的关系呢？

在柏拉图对话中，《蒂迈欧》拥有最长的注疏史，也是最让人费解的几篇对话之一。我们不知道《蒂迈欧》到底表达了什么，意图又是什么。美国学者萨利斯的《方圆说：论柏拉图〈蒂迈欧〉中的开端》一书立足于语文学和注疏史，对《蒂迈欧》进行了简洁而完整的疏解，可谓发人深省。

This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources-psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models.

This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling "Textual Scholarship" covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.

T.S.艾略特，1948年诺贝尔文学奖得主，一个比起成为诗人更想成为圣徒的人；却因为无法成圣，而成了伟大的诗人。
他总是言说那些"不被言说的"，在公众面具保卫之下的孤独里过着隐秘的生活。如果不是因为他是诗人，有探究并定义这种生活的需求，那么我们将永远无法了解他的生活。
他的诗从生活的酒滓里滤出一部结局早已注定的大戏，呈现的便是一部连贯的灵魂自传，诚恳，直接，比任何旁观者的考语都来得更洞明，更直指人心-——他的生活与作品就这样紧密相联，彼此创造。这部传记就基于这些由诗人亲自作出的表述，并与他实在的生活相印证。
林德尔·戈登考察了这位二十世纪最伟大的诗人的一生，那游走于他身上的圣徒与罪人之间的深壑。她将艾略特的生平与作品互参，以理解这位精神的求索者所经受的试炼：他的缺陷与怀疑能让一切过着不完美人生的我们找到共鸣。
"艾略特是20世纪英语文学文化中最重要的人物，这样伟大的地位，他在很短的时间、惨淡的境遇里，用为数不多的作品就已斩获。"——路易斯·梅南德Louis Menand《纽约客》
"戈登以明智的同情，穿梭于艾略特的人生与作品，带着对艾略特诗歌与戏剧无懈可击的谙熟和深刻理解，刻画出了一个精妙入微的艾略特形象。他犹如詹姆斯笔下的人物，在记忆与欲望、世俗幸福与更纯净的精神世界间徘徊撕扯。"——角谷美智子Michiko Kakutani《纽约时报》
"一部深邃、细腻、复杂的杰作。贯穿全书的是一个饱受折磨又毫不妥协的形象：他有着清教徒式的克己，在一个相对主义盛行的世俗化时代里平庸地度过一生的图景令他恐惧。他奋力前行，觉察着那'平庸的人无法感知的颤栗'。"——理查德·伯恩斯坦Richard Bernstein《纽约时报》

Amazon.co.uk Review
In the post-war period, the CIA funded not just the right-wing bits of European intellectual life but also the centre, in order to detach intellectuals from the Left, and this book tells us how. It is touching on the career of Michael Josselson, the principal intellectual bagman who in 1950 became the Congress' Administrative Secretary, and his eventual betrayal by various people like Stephen Spender who scapegoated him. Sanders demonstrates that, in the early days, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the emergent CIA were less dominated by the far right than they later became, and that the idea of helping out progressive moderates--rather than being Machiavellian--actually appealed to the men at the top.
Many intellectuals were still drawn to Stalin's Russia. Saunders superbly traces the crisis of conscience that McCarthyism and its associated bookburning in US libraries caused, and the subsequent rise of more moderate ideals. Saunders does not discuss the way the cult of Kennedy grows out of the same soil as a lot of this stuff--he was an excuse to love America after all. This is an exhaustive account, which, despite neglecting some important side issues, is an essential book. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Synopsis
During the Cold War, writers and artists were faced with a huge challenge. In the Soviet world, they were expected to turn out works that glorified militancy, struggle and relentless optimism. In the West, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession. But such freedom could carry a cost. This book documents the extraordinary energy of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were instruments - whether they knew it or not, whether they liked it or not - of America's secret service.

瑞斯曼(George Reisman)的巨著《资本主义》(Capitalism，1998年出版)指出，政府诱导货币及信用扩张的情形，好几世纪之前便已存在。瑞斯曼在书中指出，好几个世纪以来，“政府……本着扩张银行信用……能够创造真正的资本财富，进而创造繁荣的理念行事……生意人因为想要获得低利率，也就是他们所谓的‘容易钱’，因此会敦促政府这么做；当政府这么做时，企业界便报以热烈的掌声，但这么做带来的后果并非繁荣，而是景气起伏循环。”
因应景气循环的激进措施，绝对令一般读者目瞪口呆，在专业的经济学家中也一样不受欢迎。瑞斯曼的主张是采取百分之百的金本位或银本位制，也就是说，中央银行发行的所有钞票及存单，都必须存放百分之百等值黄金或白银。瑞斯曼解释，通过政府完全不加以干预的自由金融政策，这项制度将可长可久。
是的，传统的经济学理论认为中央银行之所以成立，是因为没有加以管制的自由银行体系会导致不稳定；但这样的银行体系从来不被允许存在过。
这里要理解的问题是，为什么真正自由的银行体系可以行得通？瑞斯曼的观察是，人为的信用扩张仍是合法且有可能的，但“它所有希望达到的目的都不会实现。”有关此看法以及其他相关的论点，主要是在《金钱与花钱》及《黄金 vs 通膨》两章里进行探讨，这两章几乎已经是正常情况下一本书的长度。
这本书被称为是经济学著作中的《战争与和平》，任何对经济学可能会遇到的问题，你都可以在这本书里找到答案。

《天下时代》是沃格林的五卷本巨著《秩序与历史》的第四卷，该书突破了前三卷的既定设想，将历史视为人参与具有终末论方向的神性在场之流的过程，并用这种修正过的历史观念，来分析大致始于波斯帝国崛起，终于罗马帝国衰落，并涵盖了东亚的中华文明的“天下时代”。这一时期的重要标志，包括“普世帝国”这种新政治单元的到来，“精神突进”运动的出现，以及若干普世宗教的勃兴。《天下时代》秉承“历史的秩序来自秩序的历史”的基本理念，追溯并重估了人类社会在“天下时代”寻求秩序的种种尝试，对于我们认识与反思现代社会秩序类型，也有着重要的参考价值。
★ 探索人性与神性秩序在历史中的相互交织和显现
★ 《秩序与历史》五卷本中重要的突破和转向之章
【媒体评价】
当代最为重要的政治哲学家并不是哈贝马斯和罗尔斯，而是沃格林和施特劳斯。
——詹姆斯•罗兹
思想者的真诚首先在于，随时准备推翻自己的定见从头开始！出生于自由思想之家的沃格林的“史稿”，不同样（且首先）在冲击西方学界近两百年来的启蒙传统观念吗？
——列奥•施特劳斯
现在所谓的社会科学中的解释学转向，沃格林从开始学术工作起就已经在践行了。
——于尔根•格布哈特

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality--the study of cause and effect--on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674088917