This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. No other work provides a similar synthesis: generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age combine to yield a comprehensive history of the civilization, not isolated but shaped by its relation to outsiders. </p>
This vast panorama of the civilization of the largest society in human history reveals much about Chinese high and low culture, and the influential role of Confucian philosophical and social ideals. Throughout the Liao Empire, the world of the Song, the Mongol rule, and the early Qing through the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns, culture, ideas, and personalities are richly woven into the fabric of the political order and institutions. This is a monumental work that will stand among the classic accounts of the nature and vibrancy of Chinese civilization before the modern period. </p>

"Intention", first published in 1957, has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned.

Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes takes us behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts as scholars and civil servants toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political, and personal elements of the lives of the Brothers Grimm, Zipes rescues them from sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical assessment, part social history, "The Brothers Grimm" provides a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world.

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This new edition to the classic book by ggplot2 creator Hadley Wickham highlights compatibility with knitr and RStudio. ggplot2 is a data visualization package for R that helps users create data graphics, including those that are multi-layered, with ease. With ggplot2, it's easy to:
produce handsome, publication-quality plots with automatic legends created from the plot specification
superimpose multiple layers (points, lines, maps, tiles, box plots) from different data sources with automatically adjusted common scales
add customizable smoothers that use powerful modeling capabilities of R, such as loess, linear models, generalized additive models, and robust regression
save any ggplot2 plot (or part thereof) for later modification or reuse
create custom themes that capture in-house or journal style requirements and that can easily be applied to multiple plots
approach a graph from a visual perspective, thinking about how each component of the data is represented on the final plot
This book will be useful to everyone who has struggled with displaying data in an informative and attractive way. Some basic knowledge of R is necessary (e.g., importing data into R). ggplot2 is a mini-language specifically tailored for producing graphics, and you'll learn everything you need in the book. After reading this book you'll be able to produce graphics customized precisely for your problems, and you'll find it easy to get graphics out of your head and on to the screen or page.

Sweepingly ambitious, The Oxford History of Western Music will illuminate, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective that challenges the received wisdom of the field,
Richard Taruskin sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history.
Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on
structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the context of each stylistic period-key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific
events-influenced and directed compositional choices. Unlike earlier surveys, Taruskin provides greater attention to the full range of 20th century music, including American music as part of the mainstream tradition of western music, women in music, and popular musics.
The main five volumes are filled with helpful illustrations that enhance the historical context of musical composition, as well as musical examples and black-and-white pictures throughout. The sixth volume provides a comprehensive chronology, further reading and other source material, and an index
to the entire set.
Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, The Oxford History of Western Music will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse
tradition. Pre-publication price until 12/31/04. $699.00 thereafter.

Biologists, historians, lawyers, art historians, and literary critics all voice arguments in the critical dialogue about what constitutes evidence in research and scholarship. They examine not only the constitution and "blurring" of disciplinary boundaries, but also the configuration of the fact-evidence distinctions made in different disciplines and historical moments; the relative function of such concepts as "self-evidence," "experience," "test," "testimony," and "textuality" in varied academic discourses; and the way "rules of evidence" are themselves products of historical developments.
The essays and rejoinders are by Terry Castle, Lorraine Daston, Carlo Ginzburg, Ian Hacking, Mark Kelman, R. C. Lewontin, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mary Poovey, Donald Preziosi, Simon Schaffer, Joan W. Scott, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
The critical responses are by Lauren Berlant, James Chandler, Jean Comaroff, Arnold I. Davidson, Harry D. harootunian, Elizabeth Helsinger, Thomas C. Holt, Francoise Meltzer, Robert J. Richards, Lawrence Rothfield, Joel Snyder, Cass R. Sunstein, and William Wimsatt.

本书是美籍意大利学者劳伦斯·韦努蒂（Lawrence Venuti）的一本代表作。本书批判性地全面审视了17世纪至今的翻译活动，介绍了在各种翻译策略中通顺的策略如何占据了主导地位，并形成英语中外国文学的成文规范。对外国文学作品中反映这一时期英语国家价值观的种族主义及帝国主义文化后果，作者提出了质疑。在追溯翻译历史的过程中，作者发现并指出那些与通顺策略相对的翻译理论和实践，这些理论与实践质在传达而不是消除不同语言和文化间的差异。作者还援引英美及欧洲国家的一些文本和译文，细致阐述了把翻译作为一个差异集合体进行研究和实践的理论及批判依据。

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Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities controlled up to half of the world population and endured longer than most pre-modern imperial states. Similarly, their eventual collapse occurred during the same time.

The parallel nature of the Qin/Han and Roman empires has rarely been studied comparatively. Yet here is a collection of pioneering case studies, compiled by Walter Scheidel, that sheds new light on the prominent aspects of imperial state formation. This essential new volume builds on the foundation of Scheidel's Rome and China (2009), and opens up a comparative dialogue among distinguished scholars. They provide unique insights into the complexities of imperial rule, including the relationship between rulers and elite groups, the funding of state agents, the determinants of urban development, and the rise of bureaucracies. By bringing together experts in each civilization, State Power in Ancient China and Rome provides a unique forum to explore social evolution, helping us further understand government and power relations in the ancient world.

From the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science of quantum physics
First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum mechanics.
In this follow-up to The Theoretical Minimum, Susskind and Friedman provide a lively introduction to this famously difficult field, which attempts to understand the behavior of sub-atomic objects through mathematical abstractions. Unlike other popularizations that shy away from quantum mechanics’ weirdness, Quantum Mechanics embraces the utter strangeness of quantum logic. The authors offer crystal-clear explanations of the principles of quantum states, uncertainty and time dependence, entanglement, and particle and wave states, among other topics, and each chapter includes exercises to ensure mastery of each area. Like The Theoretical Minimum, this volume runs parallel to Susskind’s eponymous Stanford University-hosted continuing education course.
An approachable yet rigorous introduction to a famously difficult topic, Quantum Mechanics provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.

A study in the philosophy of science, proposing a strong form of the doctrine of scientific realism' and developing its implications for issues in the philosophy of mind.

这三姐妹踏出约克郡教区那片文明飞地，进入无人保护的世界，她们被迫成为家庭教师，把自己所受的教育作为商品兜售。她们身上记录了文明与粗蛮的冲突、教养与劳作的冲突、自我表达与自我压抑的冲突，无处不彰显出社会存在的新形式。
这是当时我所写过的最有理论雄心的一本书，尽管它关注的是经典作家，但我觉得它在理论上是有突破的。
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《权力的神话》是英国著名批评家伊格尔顿关于勃朗特姐妹的几部为人所熟知的作品——《简·爱》《呼啸山庄》《谢莉》《教师》《维莱特》《艾格妮丝·格雷》的解读。伊格尔顿从小说文本和勃朗特姐妹所生活的历史背景与家庭环境出发，试图回答这样一个问题：在勃朗特姐妹的小说和她们所处的社会之间，是一种怎样的关系？
勃朗特姐妹生活在18世纪与19世纪之交，也即从田园牧歌式的浪漫主义，向英国工业资本主义开始转型的时代。一方面，身为牧师的女儿，她们有机会接受体面的教育，却因为迫于生计不得不做家庭教师，寄人篱下；另一方面，当工业革命正在她们家的门口如火如荼地展开，大规模的劳工运动也就此复兴。这种时代的交替在她们身上留下明显的烙印，“对异见者既同情又恐惧，对当局既心存不满又满怀敬仰”，恰如其分地体现了她们作为中低阶层在转型时代所特有的一种摇摆立场。
站在新时代的端口，在迈向城市化的英国社会里，人们正在学习新的感受方式，压抑、顺从和形塑自我；人们也有新的主体模式，既热情不断又挫折不断，既孤立无依又聪明自立，此般分裂式的处境在她们的小说中有充分而自由地展现。
当然，勃朗特姐妹的个性迥异，这也造就了她们的小说内容的不同发展趋势。相比夏洛特·勃朗特的“适度妥协”，艾米丽·勃朗特的性格则更显“激烈决绝”，正如他们的主人公在《简·爱》和《呼啸山庄》中表现出来的一样。
本书于1975年在英国首次出版，当时这种把作品放到作家生活的历史背景中去看的眼光还是独到而先锋的。哪怕是经历过1968年巴黎文化运动的年轻人，对他们来说，《权力的神话》也还是一种不成熟的构想，犹如政治疾风中的一芥稻草。到了1988年再版时，这本书引起了众多人的重视，女性主义者已开始批评伊格尔顿的作品忽视了勃朗特姐妹的性别特征。2005年又出了30周年纪念版，伊格尔顿在序言中坦陈女性身份的特质确实应作为重要因素考虑在其中。

拟南芥作为一种典型的模式植物，具有生长周期短、个体形态小和基因组小的特点，在植物分子生物学研究中已经成为非常重要的工具。在植物基因定位方法的研究中——这些基因往往对于生长发育、抗病抗逆性和产生有用的化学物质具有重要作用——拟南芥是重要的研究手段之一。除此之外，拟南芥还是一种珍贵的实验模型，对于理解光合作用和其他植物的特有的功能，以及在分子和细胞水平上理解高等生物共有的基本过程具有重要意义。本手册涵盖了关于拟南芥的基本实验方法。著者对这些方法进行了系统的搜集整理和认真审核，对实验过程进行了详尽的分步介绍，并就如何解决常见问题给出了非常有效的建议，可操作性和指导性较强。对于开展植物分子和细胞生物学、植物遗传和发育研究具有较高的参考价值。

Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences—and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images.
From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences—from anatomy to crystallography—are those featured in scientific atlases, the compendia that teach practitioners what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealizes an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature or refuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity or highlights patterns in the name of trained judgment is a decision enforced by an ethos as well as by an epistemology.
As Daston and Galison argue, atlases shape the subjects as well as the objects of science. To pursue objectivity—or truth-to-nature or trained judgment—is simultaneously to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge. Moreover, the very point at which they visibly converge is in the very act of seeing not as a separate individual but as a member of a particular scientific community. Embedded in the atlas image, therefore, are the traces of consequential choices about knowledge, persona, and collective sight. Objectivity is a book addressed to anyone interested in the elusive and crucial notion of objectivity—and in what it means to peer into the world scientifically.

Most designers know that yellow text presented against a blue background reads clearly and easily, but how many can explain why, and what really are the best ways to help others and ourselves clearly see key patterns in a bunch of data?
This book explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visualization of improved clarity, utility, and persuasiveness. The book offers practical guidelines that can be applied by anyone: interaction designers, graphic designers of all kinds (including web designers), data miners, and financial analysts.
*First work to use the science of perception to help serious designers and analysts optimize understanding and perception of their data visualizations.
* Major revision of this classic work, with a new chapter on visual thinking, new sections on face perception and flow visualization, and a much expanded chapter on color and color sequences.
*New to this edition is the full color treatment throughout, to better display over 400 illustrations.

Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach of the millennium, he revisits the book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Examining the works of writers from Plato to William Burroughs, Kermode shows how they have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit. Kermode then discusses literature at a time when new fictive explanations, as used by Spenser and Shakespeare, were being devised to fit a world of uncertain beginning and end. He goes on to deal perceptively with modern literature - with "traditionalists" such as Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce, as well as contemporary "schismatics," the French "new novelists," and such seminal figures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett. Whether weighing the difference between modern and earlier modes of apocalyptic thought, considering the degeneration of fiction into myth, or commenting on the vogue of the Absurd, Kermode is distinctly lucid, persuasive, witty, and prodigal of ideas.

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。

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