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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became, during his 84-year life, America's best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard's Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation's alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. Above all, Isaacson shows how Franklin's unwavering faith in the wisdom of the common citizen and his instinctive appreciation for the possibilities of democracy helped to forge an American national identity based on the virtues and values of its middle class.

A groundbreaking treatise by one of the great mathematicians of our time, who argues that highly effective thinking can be learned.
What spurs on and inspires a great idea? Can we train ourselves to think in a way that will enable world-changing understandings and insights to emerge?
Richard Hamming said we can, and first inspired a generation of engineers, scientists, and researchers in 1986 with "You and Your Research," an electrifying sermon on why some scientists do great work, why most don't, why he did, and why you should, too. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is the full expression of what "You and Your Research" outlined. It's a book about thinking; more specifically, a style of thinking by which great ideas are conceived.
The book is filled with stories of great people performing mighty deeds--but they are not meant to simply be admired. Instead, they are to be aspired to, learned from, and surpassed. Hamming consistently returns to Shannon's information theory, Einstein's relativity, Grace Hopper's work on high-level programming, Kaiser's work on digital fillers, and his own error-correcting codes. He also recounts a number of his spectacular failures as clear examples of what to avoid.
Originally published in 1996 and adapted from a course that Hamming taught at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, this edition includes an all-new foreword by designer, engineer, and founder of Dynamicland Bret Victor, and more than 70 redrawn graphs and charts.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is a reminder that a childlike capacity for learning and creativity are accessible to everyone. Hamming was as much a teacher as a scientist, and having spent a lifetime forming and confirming a theory of great people, he prepares the next generation for even greater greatness.

本书收录了查理·芒格自1987—2010年在西科金融、2014—2022年在每日期刊股东会上的讲话和问答。书中收录的讲话跨度长达35年，涉及大量当年国际或全美大事件，比如美国储贷行业危机、日本泡沫破裂、互联网泡沫、2008年次贷危机、比特币及加密货币兴起、新冠疫情等。此外还可透析巴芒思想发展和其投资生涯中的重要动向，如格雷厄姆和费雪的影响、多模型思维、早期经历过的失败、所罗门事件、投资可口可乐、航空业遇挫、投资中国尤其是比亚迪等，让我们得以用年鉴回顾的视角，更加全面地领略到他的所思所想，追随他的为商、为人之道。

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gideon's Trumpet follows the progress of the 1960 libel suit that pitted The New York Times against a Montgomery, Alabama, city official, and whose settlement in the Supreme Court redefined what newspapers, and ordinary citizens, can print or say.

☆ 人人都爱黑塞！全球青年的心灵挚友，永远属于年轻一代的诺贝尔文学奖得主
☆ “不要随波逐流，我们在世间最重要的事是成为自己！”聆听黑塞，成为自己
☆ 278封书信中文版重磅呈现，全景展现一代大师的生平历程和精神蜕变
☆ 经历三次婚姻、克服创作危机、穷困潦倒时还不忘救济朋友、失去祖国……关于黑塞的一切细节都在这里
☆ 了解黑塞的中国情缘：倾心禅宗，热爱中国文化，对傅聪的音乐才华赞赏有加
译者从黑塞自1892年到1962年长达70年的书信中挑选了有代表性的信件，主要包括黑塞个人的成长与发展，家庭与思想的变化，追求、奋斗、创作的历程，与父母、妻儿、姐妹的日常信件，参加社会公共活动，与同时代大家如茨威格、罗曼•罗兰、托马斯•曼等人的交往，对个体与集体、写作、文学、时事、战争、社会的观察和见解等，这些书信见证了黑塞从少年到老年的生平与经历，也呈现出半个多世纪历史交替与文化变迁的轨迹。
在这些信件中，黑塞有时谈论对文学艺术作品的看法，有时发表对社会问题的意见，有时则以散文的语言描绘自然风景、抒发人生感悟，娓娓道来，流畅生动。这些信件将黑塞还原放置于他所处的时代，立体呈现其与同时代人交错的精神世界。
黑塞的作品启迪人心，具有遒劲的气势和洞察力，也为崇高的人道主义理想和高尚的风格提供了范例。
——诺贝尔文学奖授奖词
黑塞代表了一个古老的、真正的、纯粹的、精神上的德国。他的写作充满了人道主义精神和对人类的爱心。
——德国作家 托马斯·曼
在我这一代人的数十年前，赫尔曼·黑塞已然感受到我们那种内心的骚动、那种青春时代自寻其路的固有需求——我们每个人都必须索取天经地义属于我们自己的东西：我们自己的生命。
——巴西作家 保罗·科艾略
黑塞是永远属于年轻一代的作家……读黑塞的著作时往往让人感觉好像在写我们自己，好像我们自己写下了这一切。
——黑塞作品集编者、研究者福尔克尔·米歇尔斯

In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.

Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he viewed as the dehumanizing aspects of the metropolitan trend, which he deemed "a world of professional illusionists and their credulous victims." (In another typically unrestrained criticism, he dubbed the Pentagon a Bronze Age monument to humanity's basest impulses, as well as an "effete and worthless baroque conceit.") Mumford hoped for a rediscovery of urban principles that emphasized humanity's organic relationship to its environment. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s.

This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools to include the analysis of actors and networks related to the problem at hand. It also shows how lessons learned in the application process can be used to improve the approaches and tools used in the design process. The book offers guidance in identifying and applying appropriate approaches and tools to design plans, as well as advice on implementing these plans in the real world. For decisionmakers and practitioners, the book includes realistic examples and practical guidelines that should help them understand what decisionmaking under deep uncertainty is and how it may be of assistance to them.
Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty: From Theory to Practice is divided into four parts. Part I presents five approaches for designing strategic plans under deep uncertainty: Robust Decision Making, Dynamic Adaptive Planning, Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways, Info-Gap Decision Theory, and Engineering Options Analysis. Each approach is worked out in terms of its theoretical foundations, methodological steps to follow when using the approach, latest methodological insights, and challenges for improvement. In Part II, applications of each of these approaches are presented. Based on recent case studies, the practical implications of applying each approach are discussed in depth. Part III focuses on using the approaches and tools in real-world contexts, based on insights from real-world cases. Part IV contains conclusions and a synthesis of the lessons that can be drawn for designing, applying, and implementing strategic plans under deep uncertainty, as well as recommendations for future work.
The publication of this book has been funded by the Radboud University, the RAND Corporation, Delft University of Technology, and Deltares.

This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. What people think of as the stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, the author argues, but "multiple drafts" of reality composed by a computer-like "virtual machine". Dennett considers how consciousness could have evolved in human beings and confronts the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school
Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors(and born vaudevillians)Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition . Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . . is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism ( What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common? ) to Logic ( Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything ). Philosophy 101 for those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read and finally, it all makes sense!

The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose Incompleteness Theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution.
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true―yet never provable―continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
Stephen Budiansky’s Journey to the Edge of Reason is the first biography to fully draw upon Gödel’s voluminous letters and writings―including a never-before-transcribed shorthand diary of his most intimate thoughts―to explore Gödel’s profound intellectual friendships, his moving relationship with his mother, his troubled yet devoted marriage, and the debilitating bouts of paranoia that ultimately took his life. It also offers an intimate portrait of the scientific and intellectual circles in prewar Vienna, a haunting account of Gödel’s and Jewish intellectuals’ flight from Austria and Germany at the start of the Second World War, and a vivid re-creation of the early days of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where Gödel and Einstein both worked.
Eloquent and insightful, Journey to the Edge of Reason is a fully realized portrait of the odd, brilliant, and tormented man who has been called the greatest logician since Aristotle, and illuminates the far-reaching implications of Gödel’s revolutionary ideas for philosophy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and man’s place in the cosmos.
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From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.
Ron Chernow, whom the New York Times called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," now brings to startling life the man who was arguably the most important figure in American history, who never attained the presidency, but who had a far more lasting impact than many who did.
An illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, Hamilton rose with stunning speed to become George Washington's aide-de-camp, a member of the Constitutional Convention, coauthor of The Federalist Papers , leader of the Federalist party, and the country's first Treasury secretary. With masterful storytelling skills, Chernow presents the whole sweep of Hamilton's turbulent life: his exotic, brutal upbringing; his brilliant military, legal, and financial exploits; his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Monroe; his illicit romances; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.
For the first time, Chernow captures the personal life of this handsome, witty, and perennially controversial genius and explores his poignant relations with his wife Eliza, their eight children, and numberless friends. This engrossing narrative will dispel forever the stereotype of the Founding Fathers as wooden figures and show that, for all their greatness, they were fiery, passionate, often flawed human beings.
Alexander Hamilton was one of the seminal figures in our history. His richly dramatic saga, rendered in Chernow's vivid prose, is nothing less than a riveting account of America's founding, from the Revolutionary War to the rise of the first federal government.

This introduction to the philosophy of mathematics focuses on contemporary debates in an important and central area of philosophy. The reader is taken on a fascinating and entertaining journey through some intriguing mathematical and philosophical territory, including such topics as the realism/anti-realism debate in mathematics, mathematical explanation, the limits of mathematics, the significance of mathematical notation, inconsistent mathematics and the applications of mathematics. Each chapter has a number of discussion questions and recommended further reading from both the contemporary literature and older sources. Very little mathematical background is assumed and all of the mathematics encountered is clearly introduced and explained using a wide variety of examples. The book is suitable for an undergraduate course in philosophy of mathematics and, more widely, for anyone interested in philosophy and mathematics.

In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.

From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives  

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?
 
To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy.
 
Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible.
 
An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.

This long-awaited book replaces Hughes and Cresswell's two classic studies of modal logic: An Introduction to Modal Logic and A Companion to Modal Logic. A New Introduction to Modal Logic is an entirely new work, completely re-written by the authors. They have incorporated all the new developments that have taken place since 1968 in both modal propositional logic and modal predicate logic, without sacrificing tha clarity of exposition and approachability that were essential features of their earlier works. The book takes readers from the most basic systems of modal propositional logic right up to systems of modal predicate with identity. It covers both technical developments such as completeness and incompleteness, and finite and infinite models, and their philosophical applications, especially in the area of modal predicate logic.

A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work. In these pages, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, on launching and being pushed out of Apple, on his time with Pixar and NeXT, and on his ultimate return to the company that started it all.
Featuring an introduction by Laurene Powell Jobs and edited by Leslie Berlin, this beautiful handbook is designed to inspire readers to make their own “wonderful somethings” that move the world forward.

🌊 历史长河中的几个浪花
🗺 世界地图上的几个点
🧭 1934-1983，追踪一个普通德国女性的人生轨迹
当爱情被战争中途打断
当理想遭受残酷和平庸的考验
她在悄无声息中发生了天翻地覆的改变
她为何不再提问、选择沉默？
🧵 根据一个“普通德国人”的经历改编
用粗粝的铅笔线条与冷 峻的灰蓝色调绘制的长篇小说
荣获三项国际大奖
引发七国读者的感动和沉思
◎ 编辑推荐
🌊 一部用图像书写的长篇历史小说，在波澜壮阔的时代背景下，抽丝剥茧地展现一个女人人生轨迹悄无声息的转变和自我觉醒时那个如惊雷般的瞬间。
《缄默》是作者根据祖母遗留的信件及其真实经历创作的长篇巨制。作者查阅参考了大量的图、文、影视资料，但一切历史、地理背景始终是背景，准确，但不喧宾夺主；叙述的焦点对准了这一个“普通德国人”，塑造了一个无法被简单归类的鲜明形象。
伊尔米娜在爱情中、在现实中，面对个体的歧视和不公时、面对纳粹体制的高压和暴行时，在别人的记忆中、在真实又漫长的人生中……展现出不同的面相，它们彼此衔接，合情合理，然而又令人不禁思考：是什么促成了她的转变？
📕 一个“普通德国人”的心灵史，映照出一个民族、一个时代，乃至你我人性中的幽微之处。
《缄默》其实可以看作一个三部曲、三段论。第一章是暴风雨来临前的爱情小调，优美、甜蜜、戛然而止；第二章是“乱世佳人”的抗争、挣扎和蜕变；到第三章，多年后的重逢，不仅为故事画上句号，更串起全书，升华了主题。伊尔米娜幡然醒悟的那一刻我们也跟着猛然认识到作品的意义所在。诚如评论家所说，“人不能忘记爱情，更无法忘记（逃避）政治、历史和记忆。”外因真的是不可抗拒的吗？伊尔米娜是消极地不选择还是下意识地做出了选择？
🖊科布博士写的后记鞭辟入里。作者曾说，即使你不看她的图像小说，也建议你读一下这篇后记。
🖼 纤细的笔勾勒出跃然纸上的人物形象，水彩和墨调制的灰、蓝的各种渐变色渲染出现实的背景和内心的情绪。
《缄默》已出版德、法、英、意、西、荷、土等多国版本，获得各国读者、媒体的喜爱并斩获多个奖项，这绝不仅仅是因为它主题深刻、意义宏大，更因为作品本身就是一部叙述、绘画都很高超的优秀文艺作品。从大处看，结构严整，叙述大开大合，例如优美的爱情故事突然中断，一隔就是四十多年；细微之处也巧妙严谨，例如就在读者越来越喜欢、同情、佩服伊尔米娜的时候，往往又发现她有令人遗憾之举，回头想想，她一开始就不是完美的人，似乎暴露出了性格上的小瑕疵……
作者用铅笔影线勾勒形象，造成真实、粗粝的历史感，上色技法更是灵活、高超。用灰、蓝的渐变色烘托出对错失的爱情和另一种人生的怀念；用扎眼的红色突出特立独行的弱女子与钢铁体制的对立；用蓝绿相间的明亮、浓重色调渲染加勒比海的风情和男主充实、有意义的一生——而这时女主两相对照之下，记忆的幽灵浮上来，仿佛“白日撞鬼”，格外震撼人心，作品主题也就在这种戏剧化的对照下凸显出来。
🧷 中文版《缄默》开本仿照法语版，放大开本以更好地展示图画细节和方便阅读文字；追色则参考德语原版；重新精心设计封面；折中选用120克纸，尽量使这部厚重的作品拿在手上够厚而不太重。
◎ 内容简介
本书是作者根据祖母的真实经历改编。
1934 年，德国女孩伊尔米娜到伦敦学打字。她独立、要强、有思想、有正义感，偶然结识了霍华德，一位来自巴巴多斯的黑人青年。两人志趣相投，暗生情愫。
几年后，伊尔米娜被困在德国，多番努力却终难获得经济和精神上的独立。后来，她和霍华德失去了联系。再后来，她结婚生子，在战争和纳粹独裁的夹击下只顾顽强地生活，不顾其余……
几十年后，伊尔米娜应邀来到巴巴多斯，拜访备受爱戴的总督霍华德。她蓦然回首，发现不知什么时候，自己已经在悄无声息中发生了天翻地覆的变化。
◎ 媒体推荐
一部关于理想蒙难的动人的、经典风格的长篇小说。
—— 英国《观察家报》
故事引人入胜而不生硬……一本美丽的、启发思考的好书。
—— The Quietus 杂志
《缄默》是一部绚丽，却又恼人地萦绕不去的图像小说。我们可能成为她。我们就是她。你仿佛真的生活在她的故事中……使我联想到贾森·卢茨的《柏林》三部曲和小说《偷书贼》。这个故事拓展你对纳粹德国的认知，展示了一个“普通的”德国人是如何被一个狂人和一场运动裹挟进法西斯的模式之中的。
—— Goodreaders优秀评论
一个私人的故事，发生在大历史之中。时代逼人选择，选择带来裁决。
——《PlanèteBD》艾洛蒂·达蒙评论
芭芭拉·耶林以动人心弦的敏感发掘她祖母的信件，描绘了一个人走上一条路而不是另一条路的那个关键的瞬间。
—— BDgest 网站
一次视觉的享受，故事结束后仍令读者长久地回味。
—— Pop Matters 杂志
🏆 获奖情况
⭐️ 2015 年 Artémisia 女性漫画奖获奖作品
⭐️ 2015 年法国社会与历史漫画节大奖
⭐️ 2016 年马克斯和莫里兹奖德语漫画大奖
⭐️ 2017 年艾斯纳奖提名

1986年和1991年，《鼠族》上下册出版，这部作品讲述了阿尔特父母从纳粹 大屠杀中逃生的真实经历。作品极其震撼 地描述了一段真实的悲惨历史：作者的波兰犹太人父母，在纳粹德国统治波兰期间，遭受了非人待遇，并想尽办法逃生，从而揭露了纳粹大屠杀的罪行。
这是一部真正的“幸存者”的故事——不仅是犹太人怎样从战争中幸存，也是他们的后代们如何从旧事的阴影中幸存。
【推荐语】
《鼠族》是一部令人无法释卷的作品。当两只小老鼠谈情说爱时，你感动；当他们受苦受难时，你落泪。慢慢读着这本由灾难、幽默和生活琐事构成的小故事，你就被这个犹太人家庭的遭遇俘虏，被卷入温柔而迷人的旋律。而当终于合上它时，你又会因离开那个不可思议的世界而深感惆怅……
——翁贝托·艾柯罗，20世纪最伟大的意大利学者、作家，小说《玫瑰之名》作者
“这本漫画简单而令人感动，是一场沉默的成功——无论哪种媒介都没有办法像漫画这么准确地描述这个故事，也只有漫画能把这个故事讲成功。”
——《华盛顿邮报》
“斯皮格尔曼将漫画旺盛的幻想生命力引来观照自身，从而贡献给我们漫画史上最令人难以置信的一部幻想之作：这是真正的史实……书里最重要的关系并不是猫鼠之间的关系，而是父子关系。《鼠族》最可怕的不是它的直白粗暴，而是它所承载的柔情与负罪感。”
——《纽约客》
“这是用小小的画讲成的一个大故事。”
——《纽约时报》

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内容简介：
保罗是一名成功的漫画家，但他正在经历一段失意的人生。
十几年前，保罗和妻子露西买下了这座带着花园的房子。这里曾经是家庭欢聚的地方，承载着一家人最美好的回忆。而现在，保罗独自住在空荡荡的房子里。
妻子的离去，女儿的叛逆和离巢，母亲对治疗的抗拒，让他不得不随时准备面对悲痛、 变化和分离。肩膀的疼痛、逐渐脱落的牙齿和致命的睡眠呼吸暂停症也折磨着他，他不知该怎样面对这种孤身一人、逐渐老去的生活。
往日的幸福已悄然逝去，如何才能度过这段艰难的时光？保罗在迷惘中不停寻找着答案……