1894年，犹太裔法国陆军上尉德雷福斯（Alfred Dreyfus)被指控出卖法国陆军情报给德国，军事法庭裁定其叛国罪名成立，判以终身苦役并流放外岛。事后虽经证实纯属诬告，军事法庭却因德雷福斯的犹太人身份而拒绝改判，引起左拉等知识分子和群众的抗议，并演变成为一场具有深远历史意义的运动。这就是法国近代史上轰动一时的“德雷福斯事件”。书中大量饮用当时的文件、档案、书信与报纸，让读者重回历史现场，近距离感受19世纪末法国的社会思潮。

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.

法国著名作家莫罗阿在这里探讨了人的一生中所遇到的一系列问题：爱情、婚姻、家庭、友谊以及政治和经济等等。他以小说家的丰富经验，传记家深刻的观察，对人生习见的种种难题讨论得深入浅出，分析得鞭辟入里，既显示了实际的明智，又不乏理论的智慧和丰美的文采。作为西方作家，作者对人生病态所开药方未必都能使我们折服，但是他主张为人注重情操，强调积极面对人生，而又不尚空论，不说假话...显然是值得提供给关心人生问题的读者思索和咀嚼的。

《柏拉图的理想国》是法国当代著名哲学家阿兰•巴迪欧最新的长篇哲学著作。在本书中，巴迪欧模仿柏拉图《理想国》的对话录写作手法，将《理想国》原书中的古希腊背景换成现代社会，并将其中的智者和事件都换成现代的人物及事件，以全新的角度诠释了古代的经典哲学，赋予了《理想国》以现代意义。
“这件事整整持续了六年。
为什么要借柏拉图做这项几乎有些偏执的工作？因为，出于一个明白无误的理由，今日我们尤其需要柏拉图：他将我们引向某个信念，即我们在世上的自我治理意味着某个通向绝对状态的入口已经向我们敞开
所以我将目光投向了《理想国》，希望发掘它对当代社会的重要意义。《理想国》是大师的核心著作，处理的恰好是正义的问题。我依据的是一个古希腊文本，五十四年前，我已经狂热地研究过这个文本。
我首先尝试在它的语言中完全地理解它。我全情投入，不放过任何一个细节，这是我和文本之间面对面的交锋。随后，当我认为完全理解了某个希腊文本片段后，我会写下我所获得的理解引发的一些思考和只言片语。渐渐地，出现了一些更为普遍的方法：完全自由地处理参考文献；科学方面的现代化；形象的现代化；历史的跨越；始终保持真正的、高度戏剧化的对话形式。不可避免地，我自己的思想以及——从更普遍的意义上说——当代哲学背景一直贯穿于我对柏拉图文本的加工过程中，而且可能在我无意这样做时更是如此。
这一工作的结果就是：尽管我从来没有忘记原文，甚至连细节也不曾忘记，但我所获得的结果几乎从来不是通常意义上的“翻译”。柏拉图无处不在，虽然他说的话可能没有一句得到了完全的再现。由此，我希望达到一种效果，始终接近又彻底偏离原文本。只要文本能在今日起到作用，它便能慷慨地赋予这种偏离行为以一种合法性。
归根到底，这就是文本永恒性的表现。”

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the west since the 17th century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.

This is an introduction to Bayesian statistics and decision theory, including advanced topics such as Monte Carlo methods. This new edition contains several revised chapters and a new chapter on model choice.

"Je suis parti en courant, tout à coup. Juste le temps d'entendre ma mère dire Qu'est-ce qui fait le débile là ? Je ne voulais pas rester à leur côté, je refusais de partager ce moment avec eux. J'étais déjà loin, je n'appartenais plus à leur monde désormais, la lettre le disait. Je suis allé dans les champs et j'ai marché une bonne partie de la nuit, la fraîcheur du Nord, les chemins de terre, l'odeur de colza, très forte à ce moment de l'année. Toute la nuit fut consacrée à l'élaboration de ma nouvelle vie loin d'ici". En vérité, l'insurrection contre mes parents, contre la pauvreté, contre ma classe sociale, son racisme, sa violence, ses habitudes, n'a été que seconde. Car avant de m'insurger contre le monde de mon enfance, c'est le monde de mon enfance qui s'est insurgé contre moi. Très vite j'ai été pour ma famille et les autres une source de honte, et même de dégoût. Je n'ai pas eu d'autre choix que de prendre la fuite. Ce livre est une tentative pour comprendre.