在你的头脑里，有一种比最新高科技电脑还要高效的神奇节力装置，它可以帮助你免于应付周遭世界各种日常事务之烦劳，使你可以集中精力关注那些对你来说重要的事情：结交朋友和影响他人。当然，这个融入社会世界的“你”同时也是你的脑的一个建构物。正是你的脑，才使你能与你身边的人分享你的精神世界。
《心智的构建：脑如何创造我们的精神世界》通过大量详实的实验数据与案例，通俗简明、科学有趣地阐述了我们了解世界的方式——一种被作者称作自然式学习的方式，丰富了我们关于学习是怎样发生的理解。全书隐含着许多有关学习的生物学解释和新观点，为我们打开了一扇从神经科学视角理解学习的新窗口，是一本难得的了解我们脑如何构建精神世界的出色入门书，同时对于想了解脑、心智、行为与外部世界交互机理的读者来说，也是一本必读书。

Why is split second decision-making superior to deliberation? Gut Feelings delivers the science behind Malcolm Gladwell??s Blink
Reflection and reason are overrated, according to renowned psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. Much better qualified to help us make decisions is the cognitive, emotional, and social repertoire we call intuition??a suite of gut feelings that have evolved over the millennia specifically for making decisions. ??Gladwell drew heavily on Gigerenzer??s research. But Gigerenzer goes a step further by explaining just why our gut instincts are so often right. Intuition, it seems, is not some sort of mystical chemical reaction but a neurologically based behavior that evolved to ensure that we humans respond quickly when faced with a dilemma?? (BusinessWeek).

In Ihrem Kopf gibt es eine erstaunliche Vorrichtung, die Ihnen jede Menge Arbeit erspart - und die darin effizienter ist als die neuesten High-Tech-Computer: Ihr Gehirn. Es befreit Sie Tag fA1/4r Tag von Aufgaben wie der bewussten Orientierung und Bewegung in der Welt um Sie herum, so dass Sie sich auf die wirklich wichtigen Dinge konzentrieren kAnnen: nAmlich Freundschaften zu schlieAen und Menschen zu beeinflussen. Allerdings ist auch das "Ich," das in diese soziale Welt entlassen wird, ein Konstrukt Ihres Gehirns. Es ist Ihr Gehirn, das es Ihnen ermAglicht, Ihr geistiges Leben mit Ihren Mitmenschen um Sie herum zu teilen. Dieses von einem der international fA1/4hrenden Neurowissenschaftler geschriebene Buch liefert eine verstAndliche Zusammenfassung der experimentellen Untersuchungen, die zeigen, wie das Gehirn unsere geistige Welt erschafft. Der Autor greift dabei ebenso auf die Hinweise aus bildgebenden Verfahren wie auf psychologische Experimente und Studien mit Patienten zurA1/4ck, um die Beziehung zwischen Geist und Gehirn zu erkunden. Er zeigt, dass wir unser Wissen A1/4ber die geistige und kArperliche Welt mithilfe von Modellen erwerben, die unser Gehirn erschafft. Und er verdeutlicht, wie das Gehirn die Kommunikation von Ideen zwischen unseren KApfen mAglich macht. "Christopher Frith ist fA1/4r sein extrem klares Denken bekannt, mit dem er komplexe psychologische PhAnomene durchschaubar macht, ob es um Urheberschaft, soziale Intelligenz oder die Geisteswelt von Menschen mit Autismus und Schizophrenie geht. Und genau diese Fragen wie auch unser VerstAndnis von Wahrnehmen, Handeln, WAhlen, Erinnern und FA1/4hlen werden derzeit durch bildgebende Verfahren revolutioniert. In Wie das Gehirn die Welt erschafft fA1/4hrt er all dies in A1/4beraus verstAndlicher und anregender Weise zusammen." Oliver Sacks

本书是德国基督教神学家朋霍费尔的代表作，表达了他的许多重要的神学观点，对基督徒的生活及可能遇到的问题进行了详尽深刻的指导和辨析，也体现了朋霍费尔作为以身殉道的现代圣徒毕生秉持的信念。

本书是公认的图灵最权威传记。艾伦·图灵是现代计算机科学之父，在24岁时奠定了计算机的理论基础。二战期间，他为盟军破译密码，为结束战争做出巨大贡献。战后，他开创性地提出人工智能的概念，并做了大量的前期工作。因同性恋问题事发，被迫注射激素，后来吃毒苹果而死。他吃毒苹果的原因 至今不明，一代科学大师，是自杀、他杀还是不小心，成为20世纪的谜。

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is familiar to readers as the author of Democracy in America, the most-quoted book written about the United States. The Old Regime and the Revolution is Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Writing in 1851, Tocqueville showed the continuity of French political behavior and social attitudes before and after the Revolution. He discussed the dangers to political freedom posed by tendencies towards government centralization and persistent class hostility that endured from the old regime to the Revolution and beyond.
Alan Kahan's new translation finally provides a faithful and readable rendering in English of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, surpassing existing English editions of the work which are now decades old. The first translation to be based on the forthcoming French critical edition, it includes notes and variants, which reveal Tocqueville's sources as well as new material from his drafts and revisions. The reader will also find a new introduction and other discussions by France's most eminent scholars on Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet.
A major scholarly event, this handsomely produced book will be the definitive English edition of one of the great books in modern intellectual history.
François Furet (1992-1997) was the leading French historian of the Revolution and, according to the New York Times, "one of the most influential French thinkers of the post-war era." Françoise Mélonio is the editor of Gallimard's critical edition of Tocqueville's complete works.
"Françoise Furet . . . challenged the popular Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution and reshaped French thinking about subsequent events. His lifelong fascination with the French Revolution and his many books on it . . . earned him a special place among historians."-New York Times, 16 July 1997
First published in 1856, Tocqueville's examination of the French Revolution is perhaps a most important contribution to our understaning of this keystone of modern history.

The Birth of the Modern World is a wonderfully ambitious book that effectively demonstrates the global nature of the modern world and the need to decentre national histories and think big. It is a 'thematic history' demonstrating how 'historical trends and sequences of events, which have been treated separately in regional or national histories, can be brought together' (p. 1). Bayly's emphasis is on the interdependencies and interconnectedness of political and social changes across the world in a period well before contemporary globalisation. It is in part a culmination of his own work over a long period – using his rich and detailed knowledge of Indian and South Asian history as he did previously in Imperial Meridian – as a basis from which to reflect on national, imperial and global concerns. It is an intervention in the current debates over globalisation, for he shares the insistence of A. G. Hopkins and others that the contemporary version of this is not the first; theorists must be more careful to specify the particularities of phases of globalisation given its long history. (2) It is also an attempt to put a particular reading of connection and interdependence at the heart of the making of the modern world, thereby unseating E. J. Hobsbawm's magisterial four volumes on the long nineteenth century, The Age of Revolution, Industry and Empire, The Age of Capital and The Age of Empire with its drama of the unfolding logic of capitalism and exploitation, and providing a new account for these post-Marxist times. In the process it cocks many a snook at post-colonial theorists with their 'polemic' and their 'jargon' and the particular sets of antagonisms and dynamics that they stress – racialised difference –and is proud of its sceptical stance towards theory, keen to avoid 'pretentious words'. The strength of Bayly's analysis is that it insists on modernity as a global process. The downside from my perspective is the absence of an analysis of power. As he admits right at the end of the book an emphasis on networks and connections can (and indeed does in this instance) take away from the question of power – who wields it, over whom, and how? His account, he insists, is not one of collaboration but subordination.

This forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie. His later preface, written for the first English edition of 1892 and included here, brought the story up-to-date in the light of forty years' further reflection.

The Theory of Industrial Organization is the first primary text to treat the new industrial organization at the advanced-undergraduate and graduate level. Rigorously analytical and filled with exercises coded to indicate level of difficulty, it provides a unified and modern treatment of the field with accessible models that are simplified to highlight robust economic ideas while working at an intuitive level.To aid students at different levels, each chapter is divided into a main text and supplementary section containing more advanced material. Each chapter opens with elementary models and builds on this base to incorporate current research in a coherent synthesis.Tirole begins with a background discussion of the theory of the firm. In part I he develops the modern theory of monopoly, addressing single product and multi product pricing, static and intertemporal price discrimination, quality choice, reputation, and vertical restraints.In part II, Tirole takes up strategic interaction between firms, starting with a novel treatment of the Bertrand-Cournot interdependent pricing problem. He studies how capacity constraints, repeated interaction, product positioning, advertising, and asymmetric information affect competition or tacit collusion. He then develops topics having to do with long term competition, including barriers to entry, contestability, exit, and research and development. He concludes with a "game theory user's manual" and a section of review exercises.Jean Tirole is a Professor of Economics at MIT

This advanced text introduces the principles of noncooperative game theory - including strategic form games, Nash equilibria, subgame perfection, repeated games, and games of incomplete information - in a direct and uncomplicated style that will acquaint students with the broad spectrum of the field while highlighting and explaining what they need to know at any given point. The analytic material is accompanied by many applications, examples, and exercises.The theory of noncooperative games studies the behavior of agents in any situation where each agent's optimal choice may depend on a forecast of the opponents' choices. "Noncooperative" refers to choices that are based on the participant's perceived selfinterest. Although game theory has been applied to many fields, Fudenberg and Tirole focus on the kinds of game theory that have been most useful in the study of economic problems. They also include some applications to political science. The fourteen chapters are grouped in parts that cover static games of complete information, dynamic games of complete information, static games of incomplete information, dynamic games of incomplete information, and advanced topics.Drew Fudenberg and Jean Tirole are Professors of Economics at MIT.

The past twenty years have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance. Whereas, once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations - equity, debt, and valuation - today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management, relationships between banks and corporations, and the macroeconomic impact of corporations. However, this progress has left in its wake a jumbled array of concepts and models that students are often hard put to make sense of. Here, one of the world's leading economists offers a lucid, unified, and comprehensive introduction to modern corporate finance theory. Jean Tirole builds his landmark book around a single model, using an incentive or contract theory approach. Filling a major gap in the field, "The Theory of Corporate Finance" is an indispensable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as researchers of corporate finance, industrial organization, political economy, development, and macroeconomics. Tirole conveys the organizing principles that structure the analysis of today's key management and public policy issues, such as the reform of corporate governance and auditing; the role of private equity, financial markets, and takeovers; the efficient determination of leverage, dividends, liquidity, and risk management; and the design of managerial incentive packages. He weaves empirical studies into the book's theoretical analysis. And he places the corporation in its broader environment, both microeconomic and macroeconomic, and examines the two-way interaction between the corporate environment and institutions. Setting a new milestone in the field, "The Theory of Corporate Finance" will be the authoritative text for years to come.

布罗代尔有关历史学理论与方法的论述先后两次结集出版，即Ecrits sur l'Histoire (1969)和Ecrits sur l'Histoire II (1990)，此次移译为中文的是其中第一部，也是布罗代尔治史思想的最精华部分。
《论历史》是法国史学家费尔南•布罗代尔有关历史学本性的思考的总结，这本文集凝结了他多年治史经验的思想精华。全书分为三个部分，也是布罗代尔最关心的三个问题：一是历史的时间。二是历史学和其他人文科学的对话。三是历史写作与现实的关系。
布罗代尔提出，历史学家应该穿透政治事件的历史表层，揭示那些隐蔽在下面的、影响集体存在的力量。他把历史的时间区分为地理时间、社会时间和个体时间，进而表述为长时段、中时段和短时段。长时段思想深刻改变了历史学的面貌。

在本书第二编《人与物》中，我之所以从人口学和经济学两方面来描绘我国历史的基本框架，这是因为人口和经济是历史深层运动中最明显的和最易于把握的征兆……人口究竟有多少？物产怎样使人的生存繁衍成为可能？或者，它们以怎样迫使人向前迈进，脱离开这条或那条路线，放弃这种或那种既得阵地？安德烈·皮亚蒂埃称人口为“人力资源”，吉·波瓦2则过一步认为，人口是首要的“指示数据”，是“最少随意性的标准”。有鉴于此，本编前两章所要探讨的乃是人口问题，即“从史前时期到公元1000年期间的法国人口数量及其长周期波动”和“公元1000年以来的法国人口数量及其长周期演变”；第三章和第四章将着重论述经济问题，标题分别是“直至20世纪的农民经济——基础结构”与“直至20世纪的农民经济——上层建筑”。