A history both musically and culturally, of the Chinese lute

In 1993 the first edition of ELL (Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as “the field’s standard reference work for a generation”. Now the all-new second edition matches ELL’s comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics.
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An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles
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Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach
Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing
Available in print and online. The online version will include updates as subjects develop
ELL2 INCLUDES:
c. 7,500,000 words
c. 11,000 pages
c. 3,000 articles
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Supplementary audio, video and text files online
c. 3,500 glossary definitions
c. 39,000 references
Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations
List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc)
Indexes available: Full Subject Index, Thematic Index, Name Index (print) and Author Index (online)
Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations
List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc)
Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists)
Over 100 language maps in print, approx 200 online
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This richly detailed biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation.

【哲学学者邓晓芒推荐】
他在这本不到六万字的文风平实的小书中显现了不少独特的见地，越出了英语世界黑格尔研究的成规。
——华中科技大学哲学系教授 邓晓芒
辛格的这本书是通向黑格尔的理想导论。在如此短的篇幅中能介绍得如此清晰，真是了不起的手笔。
——《泰晤士报高等教育副刊》　安东尼•曼瑟
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许多人认为黑格尔的作品晦涩难懂，但另一方面，他又具有公认的重要性和影响力。有理由认为，若非黑格尔，过去一百五十年人类的思想进程和政治进程都会走上另一条道路。深邃的思想可能使他得出了一些看似奇怪的结论，然而，黑格尔作品中的观点和洞见直到今天仍不失力量。本书 勾勒了黑格尔哲学 的轮廓，对他的观念和主要作品进行了广泛探讨，涉及黑格尔的时代和生平，以及历史的目的、自由和社群、逻辑和辩证法等主题。

Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life-evolution-and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, agriculture, medicine, and environmental science, natural history also attracts enormous popular interest. In Finding Order in Nature Paul Farber traces the development of the naturalist tradition since the Enlightenment and considers its relationship to other research areas in the life sciences. Written for the general reader and student alike, the volume explores the adventures of early naturalists, the ideas that lay behind classification systems, the development of museums and zoos, and the range of motives that led collectors to collect. Farber also explores the importance of sociocultural contexts, institutional settings, and government funding in the story of this durable discipline. "The quest for insight into the order of nature leads naturalists beyond classification to the creation of general theories that explain the living world. Those naturalists who focus on the order of nature inquire about the ecological relationships among organisms and also among organisms and their surrounding environments. They ask fundamental questions of evolution, about how change actually occurs over short and long periods of time. Many naturalists are drawn, consequently, to deeper philosophical and ethical issues: What is the extent of our ability to understand nature? And, understanding nature, will we be able to preserve it? Naturalists question the meaning of the order they discover and ponder our moral responsibility for it."-from the Introduction

Includes several classic essays from the first edition, a representative selection of the most influential work of the past twenty years, a substantial introduction, and an extended bibliography. Originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1964.

英汉双语对照版《〈自然〉百年科学经典》（Nature: the Living Record of Science）是由外语教学与研究出版社联合麦克米伦出版集团和自然出版集团共同策划编辑的科学主题丛书。丛书共十卷，收录并翻译了《自然》杂志自 1869 年创刊以来近 150 年间发表过的 840余篇经典文献，该丛书所选文章涵盖物理、化学、天文、地理和生物等基础学科及众多交叉学科。这是目前为止全国乃至全世界唯一的一套最大规模的《自然》杂志论文选集，堪称一部鲜活的近代科学史诗，此次发布的是这套丛书的前两卷，其余8卷预计于2010年陆续出版。