本书是一部研究近代中德关系史的名著。作者充分利用美国、德国、中国大陆和台湾的历史档案，论述了1928—1938年中德亲近关系建立后德国对中华民国的政权建设、军事制度、工业经济以及意识形态发展所起到的重要影Ⅱ向，指出了近代中国对现代化模式的选择并不只是接受西方的思想和文化，更在于与西方在政治、经济、军事等领域的实质性接触。美国《亚洲研究》和《太平洋事务》以及香港《二十一世纪》等书评认为，本书是研究中德关系史的一本“难以超越”的著作，是关于中华民国史和中国近代史的一项“极其出色”的成就。

The classic of common-sense economics. "Enormously broad in scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology."-- The New Republic

《战时笔记》(1914-1917年)是奥地利哲学家维特根斯坦写于1914-1917年的战时笔记。记录了作者当时的生活和心理状态，同时也记录了作者对哲学问题所作的思考。《战时笔记》(1914-1917年)是了解维特根斯坦前期思想的重点文献。

图灵机是英国数学家阿兰•图灵提出的一种抽象计算模型，本书深入剖析了图灵这篇描述图灵机和可计算性的原始论文《论可计算数及其在判定性问题上的应用》。书中在详解论文的同时，也附带了大量的历史背景资料、图灵的个人经历，以及图灵机对于人们理解计算机、人类意识和宇宙所产生的影响。 本书适合所有计算机科学专业的学生、程序员或其他技术人员，同时也适合欲了解图灵生平及其构建图灵机的思维的读者阅读。

Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th–16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science — in which the symbolic "form" of a mathematical statement is completely inseparable from its "content" of physical meaning. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art. 1968 edition. Bibliography.

德国人会永远活在希特勒的阴影下吗？两德统一并没有驱散希特勒的阴影，统一后的德国，纳粹时代依然是一个被回避的话题。除了1933和1945年，目前德国回避的话题中又多了一项内容：1989/1990。为什么会这样？“德国问题”到底意味着什么？这正是本书中某些文章思考的主题，所收录的文章，从18世纪开始，探讨当时对德国后世影响深远的自由和专制体制。作者的着眼点并不仅仅是德国历史，还有作为德国历史参照体系的欧洲的历史和整个西方史。只有放在这一体系中，衡量德国历史的标准才会清晰起来：那是西方世界的标准，历史中的德国曾经是西方的一分子，德国参与构建了西方世界，却不止一次地游离西方之外，最后一次游离引发了世界历史上的一场大灾难。

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined. Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning.

英国是世界上最早的I业国家，但是英国中上阶层人士从未对工业主义有过好感。本书引用小说、艺术、诗歌、政论、哲学、社会惯习等诸多方面的文献，生动地探讨7英国文化对只注重经济增长的现代工业社会的抵触和批判。从19世纪中叶一直到20世纪80年代，这一思潮深刻地影响了英国文化：包括文学、报纸、建筑，以及社会、历史、经济思想。学术界过去一直将英国这种注重享乐不思进取（即重生活质量不重GDP）状况称为“英国病”，但是回望过去，也许我们应该换种眼光来看。

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. "Reflections on the Revolution in France" is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric.

Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of persons of mixed parentage born in French Indochina - the metis - she found not only a remarkable artifact of colonial rule, but a legal bombshell that introduced race into French law for the first time. The decree was the culmination of a decades-long effort to resolve the "metis question": the educational, social, and civil issues surrounding the mixed population. Operating at the intersection of history, anthropology, and law, "Empire's Children" reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Through extensive archival work in both France and Vietnam, and a close reading of primary and secondary material from the Pacific islands and sub-Saharan and North Africa, Saada has created in "Empire's Children" an original and compelling perspective on colonialism, law, race, and culture from the end of the nineteenth century until decolonization.

Looks at how numbers and mathematics describe the foundations of everyday life

In The Beggar and the Professor, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie makes the Platter family the nexus of his fascinating exposition of the 16th century. In and of themselves, the Platter men were intriguing fellows; the fact that they were also prolific writers, filling diaries, memoirs, and correspondence with the details of their lives, makes them a godsend to historians. Following the Platters' paper trail, Le Roy Ladurie fashions an engaging portrait of a remarkable family. Thomas Platter Sr., for example, started life as an unlettered shepherd, spent his childhood roaming central Europe in a gang of thieves and panhandlers, and managed to pick up both literacy and a trade in his travels. By turns a printer, landowner, healer, and teacher, Platter was the embodiment of a Renaissance man. His eldest son, Felix, became a well-respected doctor, as did his youngest surviving boy, Thomas Jr.
Using the private lives of the Platters, Le Roy Ladurie illuminates the dangerous times in which they lived. Martin Luther precipitated a violent religious reformation; brigands ran wild through the countryside, and medical students crept into graveyards by night to dig up newly buried bodies for dissection. On this wild ride into history, the author's insightful observations guide the reader unerringly through the customs, practices, and upheavals of the times.