This indispensable new edition brings Chalmers' popular text up to date with contemporary trends and confirms its status as the best introductory textbook on the philosophy of science.

Over the last 25 years this account to dethrone empiricist thought has become both a bestseller and a standard university text with translations into fifteen languages.

This revised and extended edition offers a concise and illuminating treatment of major developments in the field over the last two decades, with the same accessible style which ensured the popularity of previous editions. Of particular importance is the examination of Bayesianism and the new experimentalism, as well as new chapters on the nature of scientific laws and recent trends in the realism versus anti-realism debate.


"Crisp, lucid and studded with telling examples… As a handy guide to recent alarums and excursions (in the philosophy of science) I find this book vigorous, gallant and useful."

New Scientist

本书是语言学家马丁·希伯特为英语专业大学生编写的一本介绍构式语法理论的入门教材，以英语为例，讲授构式语法的基本概念，论元结构构式，构式库的基本结构，构式语法在形态学、语用、语言习得、语言处理等方面的应用等内容。由于教学对象是大学新生，作者的写作笔调轻松诙谐，引人入胜，是一本优秀的构式语法教材。且该理论适用于普遍意义上的语言，而不仅仅限于英语。
本书的出版能促进对汉语语法有关问题的探讨，书中所述某些思想理念也将有助于汉语的有关研究，并为汉语的构式语法研究提供了宝贵的研究思路和研究方法。

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. In North America, his name still graces four counties, thirteen towns, a river, parks, bays, lakes, and mountains. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether he was climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infected Siberia or translating his research into bestselling publications that changed science and thinking. Among Humboldt’s most revolutionary ideas was a radical vision of nature, that it is a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone.
Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his daring expeditions and investigation of wild environments around the world and his discoveries of similarities between climate and vegetation zones on different continents. She also discusses his prediction of human-induced climate change, his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation, and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how Humboldt’s writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Darwin, Wordsworth, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt’s influence that led John Muir to his ideas of natural preservation and that shaped Thoreau’s Walden.
With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written book, Andrea Wulf shows the myriad fundamental ways in which Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world, and she champions a renewed interest in this vital and lost player in environmental history and science.

Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their citizens. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, provides a sweeping account of how today’s basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of a rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.
Drawing on a vast body of knowledge—history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics—Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics.

公元前413年，雅典人向西西里的远征失败。
公元前404年，雅典投降斯巴达。
在伯罗奔尼撒战争的最后十年间，希腊世界究竟发生了什么，最终导致了雅典霸主地位的丧失？
由耶鲁大学教授、著名历史学家唐纳德•卡根执笔的《雅典帝国的覆亡》，为我们详细解读雅典帝国的最后十年。全书史料丰 富，细节精准，叙事流畅，再加上作者对古今浩如烟海的有关文献了如指掌，由此我们不仅能从此书看到尼基阿斯、阿尔喀比亚德、大流士等政治领袖们所面临的战略选择，雅典、斯巴达、波斯三国政治博弈背后的理路，更重要的是，精准的历史叙述能让读者能更好地体悟到战争这位“严酷的教师”（修昔底德语）所传授的关于人类本性的教诲。
可以说，本书是今人关于伯罗奔尼撒战争研究的权威作品。对世界历史和国际政治感兴趣的读者而言，此书绝对是值得收藏的史学佳作。

介绍世界主要宗教的基础读物
印度、夏威夷、巴厘岛、阿姆利则、檀香山、京都……
作者亲临宗教生发地，强调体验的宗教专业知识学习
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※编辑推荐※
☆ 宗教曾经涉及人类生活的方方面面，至今也还在影响着很多人的生活。对于历史研究者和爱好者来说，了解当地的宗教有助于促成更为深入的研究；对于旅游爱好者来说，也有助于成就一段内容丰富的实地之旅。
☆ 呈现精华：着重描述世界主要宗教最基本的内容，介绍其诞生、演变过程及其与现代性的碰撞产生的问题。
☆ 内容明晰：以最清晰的语言讲授重要的内容，使用地图、图片、定义和历史时间检索以确保明晰性。
☆ 多面展现：除了阐述各个宗教的信仰体系，也描绘了信仰在多个方面的表达，如仪式、食物、衣着、艺术、建筑、朝圣、经典和音乐。
☆ 强调体验：以作者在世界各地宗教现场的游历为例，强调体验在学习宗教专业知识中的重要性。
☆ 兼顾学术和尊重：在保证学术严谨性的同时，也尊重每一个生活在宗教传统里的人们的思想和情感。
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※内容简介※
本书以作者在世界各地的游历经验为线索，以逻辑清晰、引人入胜的笔触描绘了当今世界的主要宗教。由原始宗教开始，依次介绍了印度教、佛教、耆那教与锡克教、道教与儒教、神道教、犹太教、基督教与伊斯兰教的诞生、演变过程，及其与现代性的碰撞产生的问题。话题涉及历史、文化、性别议题、建筑、艺术、风俗、仪式等，视角广阔、层次丰富、分析精准。

本辞典所收的词条约两万
余条，是当今英语外来语词汇
量最大的一本。它包括世界60
多种语言的外来语，主要来自
法语、拉丁语、意大利语、德
语和西班牙语，内容涉及政
治、文学、艺术、音乐，宗
教、历史、哲学、法律、科
学、军事、体育、农业、医
药、烹调等近50个方面。成
语、谚语、格言、名人引言和
名著引语尤为丰富。

In this book Werner Hullen examines Roget's Thesaurus in relation to linguistics, philosophy and history. He explores the influence of Roget's Thesaurus abroad (Germany and the Romance countries). He epitomizes its history and compares the various editions of the book. In lexical case studies he evaluates some entries with pertinence to their cultural and political implications. He discusses the didactic potential of thesauri in general and considers the implications of the Thesaurus for the study of scholarly linguistics and psychology. He discusses how Roget's Thesaurus prepared the way for the more recent idea of network semantics. By analyzing retrieval techniques one can show, he claims, how the words of languages were (and are) stored in the minds of those who speak them. Professor Hullen concludes by considering the role of synonymy in language from a perspective of cognitive linguistics showing that it is indispensable for communication.

Part A
1. Where have all the adjectives gone?
Part B Nuclear and non-nuclear verbs
2. A method of semantic description
3. The semantics of giving
Part C
4. Syntactic orientation as a semantic property
Part D Nominal classification
5. Noun classes
6. Classifiers in Yidiny
7. Olgolo syllable structure and what they are doing about it
8. Noun classifiers and noun classes
Part E
9. Semantic neutralisation for phonological reasons
References
Index

People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Bringing together the perspectives of linguistics and philosophy, Lakoff and Johnson offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind. And for this new edition, they supply an afterword both extending their arguments and offering a fascinating overview of the current state of thinking on the subject of the metaphor.

London:Ferret Fantasy (1979 First edition)
这是一本关于密室和不可能犯罪的书目作品，1979年版本收录了1280种，1991年的增订版收录超过2000种。和一般书目不同的是，它给出了每本作品的谜团和解答。不过相当简单。这部书可以称得上梦幻之书，相当难找，而且价格极其昂贵。1979年版本是私人出版物，虽然有出版社代为排版印刷，但是并无书号。1991年的版本是由美国的Crossover Press出版，定价就40美元，如今也很难见到80美元以下的二手书买卖。

One of the most famous and popular of Jin Yong's works, Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain is a riveting martial arts tale
enmeshed in intrigue, action, and suspense. Set in 1781 Manchuria during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, it tells the
story of the feud between descendants of the bodyguards of the would-be usurper of the Ming dynasty more than a
century prior. As the only English version of the Chinese text, Fox Volant has been skillfully rendered by Olivia Mok into
a translation that maintains the lucidity and excitement of the original Chinese. Cherished among Chinese readers around
the world, it is now available for the enjoyment of English-language audiences interested in wuxia and popular Chinese fiction.

《乔治·莱考夫认知语言学十讲》概括了作者对语言学某一领域的研究成果；同时讲座的形式使深奥的内容变得深入浅出，易于理解。北京航空航天大学外语系和外国语言研究所于2004年4月邀请了认知语言学创始George Lakoff教授来北京作了系列讲座。讲座先后在北京航空航天大学、北京大学、清华大学、北京师范大学和北京外国语大学进行。Lakoff教授通过十次讲座系统讲授了认知语言学的核心内容以及它的历史发展、与其他学科的交叉、最新动态及未来趋势等。讲座基本涵盖了Lakoff教授41年来的主要学术观点和研究成果。本系列讲座成书名为《乔治·莱考夫认知语言学十讲》，是“世界著名语言学家系列讲座”丛书中的一本。

AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE is ideal for use at all levels and in many different areas of instruction, including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, English, teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and linguistics. All chapters in this best-seller have been revised to reflect recent discoveries and new understanding of linguistics and languages.

Explains a fundamental scientific topic and its importance in an accessible way
Considers early theories of magnetism including the discovery that the Earth itself is a magnet
Explores the work of Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell in unifying magnetism and electricity
Looks at the quantum mechanical aspects of magnetism
Considers its importance in modern technology, including magnetic storage in computers and the magnetic fields of planets and stars
Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over five million copies sold worldwide
Magnetism is a strange force, mysteriously attracting one object to another apparently through empty space. It has been claimed as a great healer, with magnetic therapies being proposed over the centuries and still popular today. Why are its mysterious important to solve?
In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen J. Blundell explains why. For centuries magnetism has been used for various exploits; through compasses it gave us navigation and through motors, generators, and turbines it has given us power. Blundell explores our understanding of electricity and magnetism, from the work of Galvani, Ampere, Faraday, and Tesla, and goes on to explore how Maxwell and Faraday's work led to the unification of electricity and magnetism, thought of as one of the most imaginative developments in theoretical physics.
With a discussion of the relationship between magnetism and relativity, quantum magnetism, and its impact on computers and information storage, Blundell shows how magnetism has changed our fundamental understanding of the Universe.
Readership: Students of the physical sciences and engineering as well as to general readers interested in this topic.
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《多外语学习的语言习得原理、认知规律及学习方法研究》从认知和心理语言学的角度探讨了多外语学习的特点，对比分析了二语习得与三语习得过程的异同，尤其是对中介语进行了深入的分析。《多外语学习的语言习得原理、认知规律及学习方法研究》引用了大量的已有的实验研究成果和观点，同时又以中国学习者为对象采集了第一手数据，进行了实证研究，可以说是间接性研究和原始性研究相结合、定性研究与定量研究相结合，体现了该学科多元化研究方法的特点。