An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent arrivals in flora and fauna, including human beings.

Cosmology, geology, archeology, and population and environmental studies—all figure in David Christian's account, which is an ambitious overview of the emerging field of "Big History." Maps of Time opens with the origins of the universe, the stars and the galaxies, the sun and the solar system, including the earth, and conducts readers through the evolution of the planet before human habitation. It surveys the development of human society from the Paleolithic era through the transition to agriculture, the emergence of cities and states, and the birth of the modern, industrial period right up to intimations of possible futures. Sweeping in scope, finely focused in its minute detail, this riveting account of the known world, from the inception of space-time to the prospects of global warming, lays the groundwork for world history—and Big History—true as never before to its name.

世界的东方，刚刚加入世贸组织的中国展现出勃勃生机和无以抗拒的魅力。中国加速走向世界，世界急切拥抱中国。中国与世界的交流在各个层次、各个领域全面展开，新事物、新观念层出不穷；了解世界、开展商情调研究的紧迫感咄咄逼压着从事涉外工作的人们。
本书是一部上佳的应时之作。此书在许多方面进行了大胆探索和创新，有两个最鲜明的特点。首先，该书涵盖范围颇为广泛，涉及与商业经营活动相关的方方面面，包括贸易、企业组织、生产管理、财务、会计 营销、银行、证券、投资活动、宏观经济运行及指标，规范这些活动的国内法规、国际规范以及理论学说等。可以说该书是和商务英语学科的革命同步而行的，与学术界对商务英语界定的讨论不谋而合。其次，该书的体例非常独特。

In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to explicate the links between. Although the cognitive sciences are revealing much about how our brains produce language and thought, we do not yet know exactly how words are understood or have any methodology for finding out. Feldman develops his theory in computer simulations--formal models that suggest ways that language and thought may be realized in the brain. Combining key findings and theories from biology, computer science, linguistics, and psychology, Feldman synthesizes a theory by exhibiting programs that demonstrate the required behavior while remaining consistent with the findings from all disciplines. <br /> <br /> After presenting the essential results on language, learning, neural computation, the biology of neurons and neural circuits, and the mind/brain, Feldman introduces specific demonstrations and formal models of such topics as how children learn their first words, words for abstract and metaphorical concepts, understanding stories, and grammar (including "hot-button" issues surrounding the innateness of human grammar). With this accessible, comprehensive book Feldman offers readers who want to understand how our brains create thought and language a theory of language that is intuitively plausible and also consistent with existing scientific data at all levels.

《统计力学·第2版(英文版)》初版于1972年，其内容涵盖了统计力学的标准内容，叙述清晰详细，深受读者欢迎。第2版对第1版的内容作了补充和删改，重写了关于相变理论的部分，增加了临界现象的重正化群理论的内容，并在每章末增加了注释。《统计力学·第2版(英文版)》每章末都附有习题。这是一本研究生水平的统计力学经典教材。是以作者多年来在几所大学为研究生授课的讲义为蓝本而写成的。
目次：1.热力学的统计基础；2.系综理论纲要；3.正则系综；4.巨正则系综；5.量子统计；6.简单气体的理论；7.理想玻色系统；8.理想费米系统；9.互作用系的统计力学：集团展开方法；10.互作用系的统计力学：量子场论方法；11.相变：临界性、普适性和标度；12.相变：几种模型的严格（或几乎严格）的结果；13.相变：重正化群方法；14.涨落。附录6则。
读者对象:物理学专业的研究生、教师及科研人员。

《牛津英语同义词学习词典》以最常见的词立条，词目下面把本条要讨论的同义词用黑体醒目地罗列出来，接着用一句话简单说明这几个词共同的含义是什么。这样的编排可以起到一个小目录的作用，让读者一看便知本条要讨论哪些词语。另一方面，这也方便水平较高的读者查阅，因为他们掌握的词汇量大，只是有些词一时想不起来，提醒一下就够了。

《文学术语词典》一书于1957年出版，它用简短明快的文字概述了文学理论、文学史和文学批评方面的关键术语。现在的第7版包含了更多的新词条，其中一些是有关最新的文学批评理论的；所有早期的词条都进行了重新修订，有的进行了彻底重写；各个独立的词条中提到的相关作品也重新扩充了，把新近的作品包含了进来；在原有的“术语索引”的基础上新增了"人名索引"。这本文学词典历经广大师生和专业研究人员的考验，已经成了他们不可替代的必备工具书。

This fully revised text provides an understandable, clear overview of the psychology of language. Using an information-processing approach, Carroll brings the current developments and controversies in psycholinguistics to students in an engaging style and sets them in historical context. Functional in its approach, it fills the need for an up-to-date and clearly written treatment of the field. It gives students a balanced look at the subject. He includes an evenhanded and consistent discussion from both camps within the psycholinguistics field- both the cognitive side and the developmental side of research-to give students a comprehensive overview. HIGHLIGHTS provides students with excellent preparatory material for the more indepth chapters that follow uses everyday examples throughout the book, and fundamental questions are approached from a variety of perspectives, including different theoretical positions, various research strategies and classical versus more contemporary research examines current controversies on an issue-by-issue basis, and the author explores which theoretical orientation to each issue is best supported by research gives new information on non-alphabetic orthographies revises the section on Memory for Discourse to include emphasis on verbatim propositional and situational representation includes a new discussion on aphasias in the biologicao foundations of language

强力推荐：Psychology of Language 英文原版火热发售

This manual offers practical advice on the fundamentals of research to college and university students in all fields of study. The Craft of Research teaches much more than the mechanics of fact gathering: it explains how to approach a research project as an analytical process. The authors chart every stage of research, from finding a topic and generating research questions about it to marshalling evidence, constructing arguments, and writing everything up in a final report that is a model of authority. Their advice is designed for use by both beginners and seasoned practitioners, and for projects from class papers to dissertations.
This book is organized into four parts. Part One is a spirited introduction to the distinctive nature, values, and protocols of research. Part Two demystifies the art of discovering a topic. It outlines a wide range of sources, among them personal interests and passions. Parts Three and Four cover the essentials of argument—how to make a claim and support it—and ways to outline, draft, revise, rewrite, and polish the final report. Part Three is a short course in the logic, structure, uses, and common pitfalls of argumentation. The writing chapters in Part Four show how to present verbal and visual information effectively and how to shape sentences and paragraphs that communicate with power and precision.
"A well-constructed, articulate reminder of how important fundamental questions of style and approach, such as clarity and precision, are to all research."—Times Literary Supplement

In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline.
Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world―but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right. Economics Rules argues that the discipline's much-derided mathematical models are its true strength. Models are the tools that make economics a science.
Too often, however, economists mistake a model for the model that applies everywhere and at all times. In six chapters that trace his discipline from Adam Smith to present-day work on globalization, Rodrik shows how diverse situations call for different models. Each model tells a partial story about how the world works. These stories offer wide-ranging, and sometimes contradictory, lessons―just as children’s fables offer diverse morals.
Whether the question concerns the rise of global inequality, the consequences of free trade, or the value of deficit spending, Rodrik explains how using the right models can deliver valuable new insights about social reality and public policy. Beyond the science, economics requires the craft to apply suitable models to the context.
The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers challenged many economists' deepest assumptions about free markets. Rodrik reveals that economists' model toolkit is much richer than these free-market models. With pragmatic model selection, economists can develop successful antipoverty programs in Mexico, growth strategies in Africa, and intelligent remedies for domestic inequality.
At once a forceful critique and defense of the discipline, Economics Rules charts a path toward a more humble but more effective science.

由王菊泉编著的《外语学术普及系列:什么是对比语言学》基本上只是遵循一般通论性对比语言学著作的框架，同时根据笔者多年来教学和科研的实践设计和回答问题。本书为了开启读者的心智，激励有心人深入探讨，对于一些不同的观点和有争议的问题也作必要的介绍和评述。

《新东方•美语发音秘诀》从美国人日常会话的习惯和特点出发进行讲解，涉及语调、重音、断句、弱读、连读、美音中难发的音、紧元音和松元音、牙槽骨、鼻辅音和喉辅音以及汉语发音与美音的对比等。书中含有大量练习，讲练结合，让读者随时巩固。作者Ann Cook用心独到，擅长用形象的图画说明复杂的发音现象，方便读者领会和掌握。随书配有MP3光盘，几乎涵盖书中所有内容的录音；录音为作者亲自朗读，发音清晰标准、原汁原味，便于读者模仿练习。
《新东方•美语发音秘诀》编辑推荐：不枯燥！用直观的图片帮助读者理解语言现象；有依据！结合现实中的语言行为讲解发音技巧；易模仿！作者地道的美语发音方便跟读和练习；多练习！讲解中贯穿大量练习让读者随时巩固。亚马逊No.1语音书《美语发音13秘诀》全新改版，更丰富的内容，更合理的章节设置，带给读者更顺畅的阅读体验。
新版的变化与亮点：
1.按照读者的学习习惯重新调整各章内容，使学习过程更加顺畅；
2.第一章增加对发音技巧和术语的总结，为后面章节的学习打好基础；
3.新增心理语言学章节，帮助读者克服语言学习障碍，更具专业性和参考性；
4.新增Teacher’s Guide章节，详细指导各章的教学方法，更适合作为教材使用。

《语音学教程(第5版)》内容简介：经过全面修订后的《语音学教程》反映了语音研究的最新进展，内容包括了描写英语和世界其他语言语音所需的所有术语、概念和音标。第五版新增了标音练习和语调说明，进一步解释了发音活动。《语音学教程(第5版)》主流理论将发音描述成为一系列由发音器官所产生的音姿，这是对发音音系学的一种全新阐释。书中还更广泛地阐释了声学语音学。它们为我们展现了本领域研究的全貌。《语音学教程(第5版)》适用于语音学研究者、从事语音和语音学教学的老师、语言学研究生及相关人士。

《外教社词动力·Townsend Press英语词汇学习丛书：英语词汇入门（第二版）》的特点是提供地道的例句。让单词在多个语境中反复出现，通过例证、同义、反义、类比等关系来界定词义，使学生自然而然习得单词，与传统的死记硬背方法有着极大的不同。此外。书中部分练习题的题型与TOEFL、GRE、SAT等考试题型相似。对有志于出国留学的学生熟悉题型也有一定的帮助。

大英帝国雄踞19世纪，其属地与殖民地遍布全球，号称日不落帝国。而新生的美国则称霸20世纪，其政治、经济、文化、军事全方位地影响着20世纪历史进程。
自工业革命以来，两个英语国家相续雄霸世界达200余年，这绝不是偶然。温斯顿·丘吉尔以其如椽大笔，深刻而生动地为我们揭示了其中奥秘，这就是其历史名著《英语民族史》，再加上其回忆巨著《第一次世界大战回忆录》和《第二次世界大战回忆录》，几乎完整地描述了英语民族从蛮荒走到世界超强的历史轨迹。
地球上一个由讲英语的人口构成的宠大帝国－－包括了不列颠、美国、加拿大和澳大利亚等西方最强国－－历经了漫长曲折的历程而渐渐形成；它们的存在，深刻改变了世界的文明版图，强有力地左右着人类命运和历史的走向……在这部创作时间长达30年的伟大作品中，诺贝尔文学奖获得者、英国历史上最负盛名的人物丘吉尔以深邃的洞察力和史诗般的笔触，为读者描绘了一幅全景式的“帝国画卷”。

Do You Always Use the Right Word?
Can You Pronounce It -- and Spell It -- Correctly?
Do You Know How to Avoid Illiterate Expressions?
Do You Speak Grammatically, Without Embarrassing Mistakes?
If the answer to any of these questions is NO, you ought to read Word Power Made Easy. Now thoroughly revised to eliminate outmoded references and to to reflect current idioms, it remains the best and quickest means to a better vocabulary in the English language.
Each chapter ends with review. Each section ends with a progressive check. Numerous tests will help you increase and retain the knowledge you acquired. Word Power Made Easy does more than just ass words to you vocabulary. It teaches ideas and a method of broadening knowledge as an integral part of the vocabulary building process.

A History of the English Language in 100 Places is a joyous ride through time, where readers can criss-cross the British Isles and the world at large to land in a hundred contrasting places and light on a hundred wonderful topics that bring the extraordinary story of the English language alive. Any selection of places is inevitably personal. Nevertheless, a number of criteria have directed the selection process in this book. Some places represent historic firsts, some are tied to significant people and some have seen events that have shaped the future of English. Each one takes the reader on an unmissable journey into the rich past of the English tongue. What began as the language of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes on a small island has become a global property owned and shaped by almost 2 billion English speakers across the world. English has borrowed words from more than 350 languages, and many more languages have borrowed words from English. In an age of cheap air travel and internet communication we have become a global village. If you've ever been curious about the global language that binds us all together, A History of the English Language in 100 Places is for you.

The great Chinese poet in excellent translations.