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 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”。

本书是法国年鉴学派第二代代表人物、集大成者费尔南.布罗代尔的成名作和扛鼎之作，曾被译成十几种文字。本书从总体历史的思想出发，把16世纪后半期即西班牙国王菲利普在位时期的地中海世界作为一个整体加以考察，首先以大量的篇幅讨论了地中海的自然地理状况，进而探讨了该地区的经济社会状况和文化生活，最后才涉及到16世纪后期该地区的政治史。作者在广泛地运用历史学、地理学、社会学、政治学、民族学和经济学等学科研究方法的基础上，把平凡的日常生活与伟大的历史潮流，把微观与宏观有机地结合起来，立体再现了所述时代地中海及相关地区人类的全貌……

《15至18世纪的物质文明、经济和资本主义》分为“日常生活的结构”、“形形色色的交换”和“世界的时间”三卷。分别描述了15至18世纪世界范围内的人口、粮食、食品、能源、货币、城市等；分析了交易的根据、市场、生产、资本主义组织、社会各统治集团；叙述了先后控制世界经济的国家和地区的国内外市场及经济特点，最后以英国工业革命结束。

当代世界最著名的史学家之一布国代尔独力撰写的一部通史，也是其最后一部被译成中文的重要著作。初版于1962年，初衷是为法国16到18岁的中学生提供一部用全新的史学方法（即年鉴学派方法）编写的教材，但不是一般意义上的教科书，而是一部堪称经典的学术著作。全书分为三大部分二十五章。第一部分“方明史”着重叙述了有关文明与文化的理论问题；第二部分“欧洲以外的文明”分为三个小部分，分别介绍了“伊斯兰与穆斯林世界”“非洲”“远东”的文明；第三部分“欧洲文明”同样分为三个小部分；欧洲、美洲以及另一个欧洲（叙述乐欧和俄国的历史）。它在大量汲取各学科研究成果的基础上，按照布氏自己的长时段、中时段、短时段及总体史学观念写成，“给了人们一部名副其实的世界史”。全书各个部分自成一体，而又有着有机的联系；融古今于一体，既考察过去，又论及不远的将来。各章虽比较简约，但其内涵比许多长篇巨作还要丰富，论述深刻，予人以启迪。

《15-18世纪的物质文明经济和资本主义(第3卷)》第一卷题为《日常生活的结构》，分别描述十五至十八世纪世界范围内的人口、粮食、食品与饮料、居住与衣着、能源与冶金、技术革命、货币、城市。第二卷题为《形形色色的交换》，分析交易的工具、市场、生产、资本主义组织、社会各统治集团（包括国家、文化）。第三卷题为《世界的时代》，按地区和年代顺序，分别叙述先后控制世界经济的威尼斯、安特卫普、热那亚、阿姆斯特丹，并涉及法、英等国的国内外市场，以及美洲、黑非洲、俄罗斯、土耳其及远东的经济特点，最后以英国工业革命结束。

它不是史前世界和古代世界的外行之作，而是出自一位一直钟情于地中海研究的历史学家、作家之手。凭借其渊博的知识，向我们展示了人类文明的早期发展。在蔚蓝色的光线映衬下，通过对巨石建筑、金字塔、希腊神庙或罗马长方形大会堂的精彩描述过去的一幕幕活剧似历历在目。
费尔南布罗代尔不仅是法国极负盛名的历史学家．而且是写文章的高手。

《论技术、技艺与文明》是由莫斯有关技术和技艺方面的论述所构成的一本真正的全集，是一项深入、全面且相当具有开创性的成就。《论技术、技艺与文明》内容几乎涉及社会学、人类学和历史学中有关技术的所有重要问题，从旧石器时代石器的制作与交换、殖民地田野点的调查，到物质文化（莫斯和他的同事都没有使用过“物质文化”一词）的社会和象征意义；小到吃饭、走路、坐姿，甚至是睡觉，都不能被看成是自然而然的事情，这些在不同的社会、文化和文明中，成为他们相互区分的标识。

出生於法國巴黎的猶太裔學者，喬治?史坦納（George Steiner ）是當代知名的文學批評家兼作者，曾在耶魯、劍橋及哈佛等大學擔任教職，專精於比較文學和翻譯理論，畢生著作等身，探討議題涵蓋哲學、語言、文學經典，以及閱讀方法，並啟發了對大眾文化的研究。史坦納在學界的傑出表現使他屢次獲獎，包括美國藝術與科學學院榮譽會員以及法國政府榮譽團騎士級獎章。
史坦納於將近七十歲高齡時寫下散文形式的自傳《勘誤表》，以時間為主軸，回顧他曾關心過的種種議題，作為檢視其一生成就與遺珠之報告。他從幼時學習經驗談起，隨著自己的成長歷程，一步步談論他曾關心過的重要議題，包括猶太人和非猶太人之間的關係、音樂的永續存在、衍申自巴別塔故事的語言以及翻譯問題、對當代政治與社會的評論，以及如師亦友的師生關係。史坦納以其思想議題之旅行為主軸，整理出他在人生中各個時期所啟發的種種哲思，讓讀者更明瞭史坦納在等身著作背後的寫作動機。書中也再次統整史坦納的思想精華，對於未接觸過他的讀者來說，《勘誤表》無疑是一窺大師風采的最佳導覽自傳。
史坦納為自傳下的書名，《勘誤表》，其實包含了深層的意義。一方面，史坦納的學術批評生涯一直都在勘正被批評對象的錯誤，例如他在本書第七章中指出，聖經中的巴別塔事件並不是對人類的詛咒，而是使得人類擁有不同語言的天賦恩賜，使得人類的經驗、思想、感情以及概念因多語能力而更顯豐富且具創造力。另一方面，寫作自傳讓史坦納得以誠實面對一生作品中未盡完善之處，並對在生命中扮演重要角色的雙親、教師和朋友致上謝意與敬意，故他以勘誤表一詞為名，盼能校正生命中的錯誤和遺憾。 「海德格曾說：『思想偉大者必犯大錯』。而 『思想渺小者』，同樣會犯大錯。」史坦納在自傳《勘誤表》中整理先前所勘他人之誤，同時也勘自身之誤，可說是用心良苦。

For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These were to become known as the Pensees, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing. Pascal's general intention was to confound scepticism about metaphysical questions. Some of the Pensees are fully developed literary reflections on the human condition,, some contradict others, and some remain jottings whose meaning will never be clear. The most important are among the most powerful aphorisms about human experience and behaviour ever written in any language. This translation is the only one based on the Pensees as Pascal left them. It includes the principal dossiers classified by Pascal, as well as the essential portion of the important Writings on Grace. A detailed thematic index gives access to Pascal's areas of concern, while the selection of texts and the introduction help to show why Pascal changed the plan of his projected work before abandoning the book he might have written. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Over the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered to be the most influential sociologist in the world and a thinker on a par with Foucault and Lévi-Strauss—a public intellectual as important to his generation as Sartre was to his.
Sketch for a Self-Analysis is the ultimate outcome of Bourdieu’s lifelong preoccupation with reflexivity. Vehemently not an autobiography, this unique book is instead an application of Bourdieu’s theories to his own life and intellectual trajectory; along the way it offers compelling and intimate insights into the most important French intellectuals of the time—including Foucault, Sartre, Aron, Althusser, and de Beauvoir—as well as Bourdieu’s own formative experiences at boarding school and his moral outrage at the colonial war in Algeria.