本书从动态视角对英语基本句型及各类衍生句型的生成机制进行了研究，具有较大的学术价值和实用价值。书中探讨了英语基本句型的生成机制及由基本句型产生各类衍生句型的动态过程，使人对英语句型的发展有了新的更加深刻的认识。

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history—almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943–1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and—eventually—one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens—the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory.
This is the true story of a city under siege: the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds. It is also a look at the power—and layered meaning—of music in beleaguered lives. Symphony for the City of the Dead is a masterwork thrillingly told and impeccably researched by National Book Award–winning author M. T. Anderson.

This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose mastery generated power and whose graphs became potent objects. Writing and Authority in Early China traces the enterprise of creating a parallel reality within texts that depicted the entire world. These texts provided models for the invention of a world empire, and one version ultimately became the first state canon of imperial China. This canon served to perpetuate the dream and the reality of the imperial system across the centuries.

经济学入门佳作，暌违多年，新版出来
长居美国亚马逊经济类榜首、美国国民经济学读本
掌握社会经济运行规律，人人都能看懂的经济学专业读物
◎ 编辑推荐
美国芝加哥学派著名经济学家、自由主义大师托马斯·索维尔自《美国种族简史》之后的又一本畅销经典；
美国亚马逊长居榜首的经济学 通识读物，美国公民学习经济学的入门佳 作；
并且，这是一本人人都能看懂的经济学专业读物。
◎ 内容简介
经济学一点也不复杂，也不难理解，困扰我们的是故作艰深的语言和拒人千里之外的形式。本书没有让人望而生畏公式图表，也没有难懂的术语，更没有枯燥的实证。托马斯·索维尔用最贴近日常生活的语言和案例，为我们讲解经济学博士都不一定能完全掌握的经济学思维方式，让所有人都能体验毫无障碍的阅读，并且在无形中学会经济学这一门专业知识体系和分析工具，让普通人不再受含糊的政治辞令和晦涩的经济学术语的迷惑，掌握经济社会的运转规律。
通过本书，我们将会了解价格、投资和国际贸易等方方面面的知识，也会对媒体、政治家、公知的言论保持警醒和怀疑，不再不加批判地用“穷人”和“富人”来区分不同的人群。我们还会对房租管制、贸易平衡、贫富差距、统计数据产生全新的认识。
◎ 媒体推荐
本书简洁明了……在过去30年的经济学家中，索维尔的确成就非凡。
——《华尔街日报》（Wall Street Journal）
本书不仅对于普通大众读者很有价值，而且对于律师、企业家、政治家、经济学家也都很有益处。
——《华盛顿邮报》（Washington Times）
真是太需要了……任何读过带有偏见、枯燥无味的经济学教科书的人，都应该读读这本书来纠正谬误。
——《克莱蒙特书评》（Claremont Review of Books）
◎ 名人推荐
本书是伪装成甜点的一道健康大餐，并且索维尔还在不断扩充，读者一定会为此庆幸。索维尔流畅的文笔、无懈可击的逻辑、渊博的知识和完美无瑕的经济学，无论对专业人士还是初学者都是一种享受。
——托马斯·黑兹利特（Thomas Hazlett），法律与经济学教授，乔治梅森大学信息经济项目主任
每一章都证明了为什么索维尔是美国最伟大的思想家之一。如果想知道经济学是如何掌控我们日常生活中如此多的事情，本书是必读书。
——亚瑟C.布鲁克斯（Arthur C.Brooks），美国企业研究院院长、《战争：自由企业与大政府之间的斗争将塑造美国未来》（The Battle：How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Futur_e）作者
本书证明了索维尔教授能够让一个从未踏进经济学课堂的人理解经济学。这本书里有大量日常经济学问题的案例与详尽解释。
——沃尔特E.威廉姆斯（Walter E.Williams），乔治梅森大学特聘经济学教授
经济学的既定事实常使许多人大惑不解。索维尔以堪称典范的方式揭去了这些事实的神秘面纱，使它们变得直观，甚至显而易见。
——大卫·博阿兹（David Boaz），加图研究所高级副所长，《自由主义导论》（Libertarianism：A Primer）作者

From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus, the greatest classical work of history ever written.
Herodotus was a Greek historian living in Ionia during the fifth century BCE. He traveled extensively through the lands of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and collected stories, and then recounted his experiences with the varied people and cultures he encountered. Cicero called him “the father of history,” and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature. With lucid prose that harks back to the time of oral tradition, Herodotus set a standard for narrative nonfiction that continues to this day.
In The Histories, Herodotus chronicles the rise of the Persian Empire and its dramatic war with the Greek city-states. Within that story he includes rich veins of anthropology, ethnography, geology, and geography, pioneering these fields of study, and explores such universal themes as the nature of freedom, the role of religion, the human costs of war, and the dangers of absolute power.
Ten years in the making, The Landmark Herodotus gives us a new, dazzling translation by Andrea L. Purvis that makes this remarkable work of literature more accessible than ever before. Illustrated, annotated, and filled with maps, this edition also includes an introduction by Rosalind Thomas and twenty-one appendices written by scholars at the top of their fields, covering such topics as Athenian government, Egypt, Scythia, Persian arms and tactics, the Spartan state, oracles, religion, tyranny, and women.
Like The Landmark Thucydides before it, The Landmark Herodotus is destined to be the most readable and comprehensively useful edition of The Histories available.

Few books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than James Joyce's Ulysses, a work that at once entices and terrifies readers with its interwoven promises of pleasure, scandal, difficulty, and mastery. This volume offers fourteen concise and accessible essays by accomplished scholars that explore this masterpiece of world literature. Several essays examine specific aspects of Ulysses, ranging from its plot and characters to the questions it raises about the strangeness of the world and the density of human cultures. Others address how Joyce created this novel, why it became famous, and how it continues to shape both popular and literary culture. Like any good companion, this volume invites the reader to engage in an ongoing conversation about the novel and its lasting ability to entice, rankle, absorb, and enthrall.

《公共舆论》是传播学领域的奠基之作，它第一次对公共舆论做了全景式的描述，自1922年问世以来，已被翻译成几十种文字，至今仍然保持着这个领域中的权威地位。其影响力经久不衰的奥秘在于，它卓有成效地梳理了舆论研究中一系列难以回避的问题，比如舆论从哪里来？它是怎样形成的？它能造成什么样的结果？谁是公众？公共舆论是什么意思？它是仅仅在公众中传播还是由公众自己形成的？它什么时候才能成为独立的力量？该书对成见、兴趣、公意的形成和民主形象等问题做了精辟而深刻的探讨，完成了新闻史上对舆论传播现象的首次全面论述，为后人的研究奠定了基础。

《在汉帝国的阴影下》是一本研究南朝初期士人思想发展的学术论著。该书由概述汉末政治社会背景入手，在分析了汉末的社会经济基础与流民等背景的基础上讨论了魏晋南北朝初期南方诸朝诸文官机构的发展、士族的崛起、士人思想的萌芽发展等相关政治文化内容。

【编辑推荐】
◆一个人如果不能掌控自己的命运，就会被命运掌控。
◆美国前总统奥巴马、奥斯卡影帝汤姆•汉克斯、比尔·盖茨年度推荐。
◆都柏林文学奖入围作品。《泰晤士报》：“这是一本关于摆脱世俗的书。”《科克斯书评》：“无死角的伟大小说。”
◆美国亚马逊&NPR年度好书，《泰晤士报》等 9家媒体年度最佳图书。
◆被翻译成近30种语言，一年内销量超过100万册，全年雄踞《纽约时报》排行榜。
【内容简介】
在变革的年代里，被囚禁的反而成了最自由的。
1922年，罗斯托夫伯爵被认定为不悔罪的贵族，被判软禁在克里姆林宫对面的大都会酒店。这位此前从未工作过一天，人生要务唯有追求智慧与学识的绅士，自此只能栖身于这家五星级酒店的阁楼，以独特的视角观望俄国在历史车轮下展开的巨变。他的人生也开启了崭新篇章。神秘的女演员、古灵精怪的少女、性格各异的主厨与侍者……种种邂逅与交往，让他体会到多样、微妙又丰厚的情感。酒店这一受限的空间，却让他的精神得以进入一个更为广阔的天地。
这本优美的小说充满了风趣幽默的桥段、闪闪发光的人物和精致迷人的场景。更重要的是，它展现了在时代的洪流中，人之为人的意义。
【媒体推荐】
三百六十度无死角的伟大小说，以其独特的魅力、智慧与极富洞察力的哲思，带给你无穷的阅读快感。即便残酷的时代也无法消弥人类的尊严、荣耀与记忆。
——《科克斯书评》
这是一本关于摆脱世俗的书。《莫斯科绅士》有着绝妙的结构和精致的文风……这一切都让人联想到韦斯•安德森的《布达佩斯大饭店》。
——《泰晤士报》
出色、华丽、精彩，托尔斯是个文字匠人。他写得好的地方不是奇迹与巧合发生的时刻，而是那些处于故事外围的人身上发生的巨大转变。他们在一起度过的几十年中，彼此成为密友、同人、至交。
——《纽约时报》
凭借极具魅力的主人公及其栖身的奇特世界，托尔斯毫不费力地脱颖而出了。
——《纽约客》
在这个乱象丛生的时代，埃默•托尔斯以旧世界的优雅，成就了这部小说的美好。
——《华盛顿邮报》
小说里充满了各种冒险、爱情故事、命运纠葛和傻气又滑稽的桥段。
——《华尔街日报》
托尔斯是当今美国最杰出的文体家之一。
——美国亚马逊主编
一部非常成功且风格别致的小说。
——NPR（美国国家公共广播电台）

塔米姆·安萨里记录了伊斯兰世界对于世界历史的丰富描述——从先知默罕默德时代到奥斯曼帝国的衰落以及其他的内容。他厘清文明是如何在相互砥砺中显著成长以及伊斯兰世界是如何逐渐受到在他们眼里曾经是原始、无序的欧洲的影响，并最终在一定程度上被其改变命运的。

Is human vision universal and largely unchanging, or historically conditioned? What happened to the Western understanding of vision when the camera obscuraAa simple pinhole camera popular in the 17th and 18th centuriesAgave way to the Kodak? Columbia University art historian Crary brings a multidisciplinary approach to such questions, and though his work is densely written for an academic audience, it can be fun to read if only for the illustrations of such wacky 19th-century optical toys and devices as the phenakistiscope and the Kaiserpanorama. The book's focus is the cultural function and meaning of an ideal of "attentiveness," which reveals that the contemporary prognosis of "attention deficit disorder" has roots in much earlier anxieties about the failure of concentrated perception. Examining a vast range of scientific writings, works of art and objects from the world of early mass entertainment, Crary argues that 19th-century European culture became obsessed with a perceived breakdown in attentionAas focus and concentration seemed to give way to trance, reverie, monomania and hypnosis. At well over twice the length of Crary's earlier book (1990's elegant Techniques of the Observer), this volume is comparatively unfocused and loosely organized. Extended analysis of three central oil paintings by Manet, Seurat and C?zanne promisesAbut never quite managesAto unify all the heterogeneous material into a coherent whole.

Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories suggest that the growth of global communications correlated with imperial expansion: an increasing number of cables were laid as colonial powers competed for control of resources. Winseck and Pike argue that the role of the imperial contest, while significant, has been exaggerated. They emphasize how much of the global media system was in place before the high tide of imperialism in the early twentieth century, and they point to other factors that drove the proliferation of global media links, including economic booms and busts, initial steps toward multilateralism and international law, and the formation of corporate cartels. Drawing on extensive research in corporate and government archives, Winseck and Pike illuminate the actions of companies and cartels during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, in many different parts of the globe, including Africa, Asia, and Central and South America as well as Europe and North America. The complex history they relate shows how cable companies exploited or transcended national policies in the creation of the global cable network, how private corporations and government agencies interacted, and how individual reformers fought to eliminate cartels and harmonize the regulation of world communications. In Communication and Empire, the multinational conglomerates, regulations, and the politics of imperialism and anti-imperialism as well as the cries for reform of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth emerge as the obvious forerunners of today's global media.

《言语幽默的图论模型》立足于语言学传统的幽默研究，在前人成果的基础上提出了“笑话的简式图论模型”，开创了研究幽默文本特别是笑话的一条新途径。全书内容翔实，深入浅出，并用大量的幽默语料向读者揭示笑话之所以令人发笑的深层动因。全书用清晰易懂的英语写成，适合有一定英语基础的语言专业的学习和研究以及对英语幽默语言感兴趣的广大读者。

纪念碑式的传记伟作 日本崛起的恢弘历史长卷
1867年—1912年，日本从落后封闭的封建国家，一跃成为君主立宪制的现代大国。欧美数百年间的变化，在明治天皇在位的四十余年中急速上演；后世日本的命运，在此亦有端倪。然而，明治却隐身于各个事件和人物背后，难见踪迹。他是无能的傀儡，还是最伟大的君主？在时代的巨大浪潮中，他如何应对周遭的一切？
本书搜集庞大的资料，在天皇的个人细节和时代的重大事件中达成巧妙的平衡。我们既可以看到明治拘谨地会见外国使节、偏爱个别后妃、在伊藤遇刺后好像突然老去，同时也能看到倒幕运动、明治维新、西南战争、日俄战争等风云变幻的亲历见闻。它是一部传记，亦是一个时代的编年史。

《翻译研究入门:理论与应用》系统介绍了古罗马以来的翻译理论流派与思潮，精心绘制了一幅西方译学研究的进程图，全面展现了本领域最新的学术成果及研究动向。与同类著述相比，《翻译研究入门——理论与应用》具有如下鲜明的特点和独特的价值：强调理论之间的内在联系，体现翻译学的系统性；注重理论与实际相结合，突出翻译学的实证性；鼓励进行独立思考与研究，追求翻译学的创新性，等等。
作为翻译学的入门教程，《翻译研究入门——理论与应用》以通俗易懂的语言对西方翻译学的产生、发展和壮大进行了梳理，为学生、教师、研究者及翻译人员等开启了当代西方译学研究的新天地。

本书以英语关联词和常用词为引子，综合讨论它们的多种语法功能和搭配用法，并配有大量实例，便于读者扎实地理解和掌握。
可供大学、中学师生及广大英语爱好者阅读英语材料和学习英语时参考，也可供参加高考英语、大学英语四六级考试、研究生入学英语考试、托福考试的考生备考时学习。

This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for research. The authors describe and account for some remarkable parallelisms in the linguistic construction of utterances with which people express themselves in different languages and cultures. A motive for these parallels is isolated - politeness, broadly defined to include both polite friendliness and polite formality - and a universal model is constructed outlining the abstract principles underlying polite usages. This is based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures: the Tamil of South India, the Tzeltal spoken by Mayan Indians in Chiapas, Mexico, and the English of the USA and England, supplemented by examples from other cultures. Underneath the apparent diversity of polite behaviour in different societies lie some general pan-human principles of social interaction, and the model of politeness provides a tool for analysing the quality of social relations in any society. This volume will be of special interest to students in linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology, and the sociology and social psychology of interaction.

梅尔文·布拉格 (Melvyn Bragg) 带你走遍大不列颠，了解英语的冒险历程——公元前500年的一门小众日耳曼方言，到底是如何一步步成长为当今毋庸置疑的世界语言。他将根据不同词语被引进英语的大致时期来向我们讲解它们的出处和拼写。
1、语言的诞生 (Birth of a Language)
2、不登大雅之堂 (English Goes Underground)
3、圣经语言之争 (The Battle for the Language of the Bible)
4、此世、此国、此英 (This Earth, This Realm, This England)
5、英语在美洲 (English in America)
6、谈吐得体 (Speaking Proper)
7、帝国的语言 (The Language of Empire)
8、南腔北调皆英语 (Many Tongues Called English, One World Language)