An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed—people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning disorders cured, IQs raised, aging brains rejuvenated, stroke patients learning to speak, children with cerebral palsy learning to move with more grace, depression and anxiety disorders successfully treated, and lifelong character traits changed. Using these marvelous stories to probe mysteries of the body, emotion, love, sex, culture, and education, Dr. Doidge has written an immensely moving, inspiring book that will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.

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 《系统之美》是一本简明扼要的系统思考入门指南，也是认识复杂动态系统的有力工具，帮助大家提高理解和分析身边系统的能力。小到个人问题，大到全球性复杂挑战，本书都可以为你提供睿智的解答和洞察。
 作为一本实用的入门指南，本书不仅讲解了系统动力学的基本概念、列举了常见的系统结构，还详细陈述了复杂系统的3大特征、8大陷阱与对策、12大变革方式以及15大生存法则。作者把系统思考从计算机和方程式的世界中解脱出来，以各种真实的案例，阐述了系统思考如何应用于各种现实问题，向读者展示了如何提升和应用系统思考技能——这一项普遍被认为是21世纪全球领导力的核心技能。
 作者认为，系统思考将有助于我们发现问题的根本原因，看到多种可能性，从而让我们更好地管理、适应复杂性挑战，把握新的机会，去打造一个完全不同的自我和一个崭新的世界。
 一本书，引领个人、组织与社会变革的先河，促使人们觉醒，改变看待这个世界和系统的方式，以此改变当今社会的发展进程，让大家在这个充满各种复杂系统的世界里更好地生活。
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 本书作者德内拉•梅多斯，是世界上最伟大的系统思考大师之一，师从系统动力学创始人杰伊•福瑞斯特，是知名的“世界模型Ⅲ”主创人员，也是 “学习型组织之父”、《第五项修炼》作者彼得•圣吉的老师。
 系统思考泰斗10年手稿首度出版，帮助大家提高理解和分析身边系统的能力，更积极地投身于各种变化，用新的方式去管理、决策，并在这个充满各种复杂系统的世界里更好地生活。
 书中详细陈述了系统的3大特征、8大陷阱与对策、12大变革方式以及15大生存法则，是一部深入浅出地启迪人们系统思考的经典之作。
 一本书，引领社会观念变革的先河，促使人们觉醒，改变看待这个世界和系统的方式，以此改变当今社会的发展进程。
 本书写的是世界的复杂性，也献给世界的复杂性。系统思考是你应对复杂性挑战、做出睿智决策、与复杂世界共舞的核心技能。
 跟随作者的脚步，你将惊叹于系统之美、系统之奇、系统之危与机、系统之杠杆点，并最终与系统共舞！

《变革中国:市场经济的中国之路》是新制度经济学鼻祖、产权理论的创始人、102岁的诺贝尔经济学家得主科斯讲述的一个有着中国特色的独特故事。在过去30年里，中国从一个市场和企业精神被禁锢而贫困潦倒的国度，成功地转型为一个市场开放、私企盛行的全球经济重镇。改革伊始，中国领导人痛定思痛，解放思想，实事求是，在坚守社会主义立场的同时，官方和民间改革并举，共同打造“中国特色社会主义市场经济”。
《变革中国:市场经济的中国之路》向世人揭示这一切的来龙去脉。它展现给读者中国走向现代市场经济的曲折险途和波澜历程。作者以实地调研为基础，参考国内外众多文献，根据多年对中国经济发展的跟踪观察和对市场经济的长期理论思考，直笔而书，成就中国改革一家之言。
《变革中国：市场经济的中国之路》基于作者长期以来对中国经济的跟踪观察和研究，从毛泽东时代谈起，完整地梳理了中国如何从一个市场和企业精神被禁锢的国度，成功转型为一个市场开放的全球经济重镇，以及这个过程中经历的曲折和波澜，同时针对存在的问题，对中国经济的未来提出了诊断和预测。
作为新制度经济学和产权理论、交易成本的创始人，科斯教授是20世纪以来最重要的经济学大师之一，是对中国经济发展产生直接影响的最重要的经济学家。国内众多的顶尖学者也深受其影响，诸如张五常、吴敬琏、周其仁、张维迎、盛洪、向松祚等，从而影响了中国经济发展的进程。2008年，科斯遍邀全球著名经济学家如蒙代尔、诺斯、福格尔，以及中国的经济学家、企业家和政府官员等，组织了“中国经济制度变革三十周年国际学术研讨会”。张五常著名的《中国的经济制度》，即根据这次研讨会的主题论文整理而成。
可以说，《变革中国》是经济版的《论中国》，文字通俗，可读性极佳。相比于国内作者，科斯教授的立场更独立，叙述更客观、更有说服力。相比于国外的其他经济学家，科斯教授长期以来跟踪研究中国经济，他的叙述更全面更深刻。

Drawing on his theory of the origins of the modern mind, Merlin Donald's thesis presents the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our distinctively human modes of awareness. Donald proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of interweaving a supercomplex form of matter (the brain) with an invisible symbolic web (culture) to form a "distributed" cognitive network. This hybrid mind, Donald suggests, is our main evolutionary advantage, for it allowed humanity as a species to break free of the limitations of the mammalian brain.

事实与价值的二分法是现代道德哲学和政治哲学的根本前提,对这一前提的批判是当代实践哲学最富有挑战性的主题。美国哲学家普特南是这一思潮中颇有深度和影响的人物。本书立足与实用主义转向后的基本立场，从知识论、伦理学和科学哲学的角度对事实与价值的二分法展开了猛烈的批判，堪称20世纪70年代以后兴起的新实用主义思潮的简要总结。

Two of the first and most original thinkers on Library 2.0 introduce the essential concepts and offer ways to improve service to better meet the changing needs of 21st century library users. Describing a service model of constant and purposeful change, evaluation and updating of library services, and user participation, the book both outlines the theoretical underpinnings of Library 2.0 and provides practical advice on how to get there. From incorporating technology to reaching the long tail, from getting buy-in to maintaining momentum, all aspects of Library 2.0 are covered.

《怀柔远人》的主题是清代礼宾与1793年马嘎尔尼英国使团，书中分别考察了清朝与英国对遣使事件的叙述，以便强调双方不同的实际操作模式与观念框架。在批判性地评介了其他有关清代外交关系的观点之后，第2章提供了一个对清帝国及其统治状况的全景式的考察，第5章也谈到这个问题，并特别关注宾礼。第3章讨论18世纪大英帝国国内文化背景，展示在知识贵族中普遍流行的“外交、贸易及对中国的了解”。第4章重新检讨马嘎尔尼勋爵对觐见过程前前后后的叙述。第6章和第7章透过清朝的礼仪和统治观念来审视清朝有关这次觐见的记载。第8章把双方的叙述列在一起，合而观之。第9章，在对这次清英相遇做出一些总结之后，回顾了中西关系史中对马嘎尔尼使团的研讨。

In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time--the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. "Cherishing Men from Afar" looks at the initial confrontation between these two empires from a historical perspective informed by the insights of contemporary postcolonial criticism and cultural studies.
The history of this encounter, like that of most colonial and imperial encounters, has traditionally been told from the Europeans' point of view. In this book, James L. Hevia consults Chinese sources--many previously untranslated--for a broader sense of what Qing court officials understood; and considers these documents in light of a sophisticated anthropological understanding of Qing ritual processes and expectations. He also reexamines the more familiar British accounts in the context of recent critiques of orientalism and work on the development of the bourgeois subject. Hevia's reading of these sources reveals the logics of two discrete imperial formations, not so much impaired by the cultural misunderstandings that have historically been attributed to their meeting, but animated by differing ideas about constructing relations of sovereignty and power. His examination of Chinese and English-language scholarly treatments of this event, both historical and contemporary, sheds new light on the place of the Macartney mission in the dynamics of colonial and imperial encounters.

Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the Wired generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age.

Marshall McLuhan, the celebrated social theorist who defined the culture of the 1960s, is remembered now primarily for the aphoristic slogan he coined to explain the emerging new world of global communication: “The medium is the message.” Half a century later, McLuhan’s predictions about the end of print culture and the rise of “electronic inter-dependence” have become a reality—in a sense, the reality—of our time.
Douglas Coupland, whose iconic novel Generation X was a “McLuhanesque” account of our culture in fictional form, has written a compact biography of the cultural critic that interprets the life and work of his subject from inside. A fellow Canadian, a master of creative sociology, a writer who supplied a defining term, Coupland is the ideal chronicler of the uncanny prophet whose vision of the global village—now known as the Internet—has come to pass in the 21st century.

with a new introduction by Lewis H. Lapham This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate.There has been a notable resurgence of interest in McLuhan's work in the last few years, fueled by the recent and continuing conjunctions between the cable companies and the regional phone companies, the appearance of magazines such as WiRed, and the development of new media models and information ecologies, many of which were spawned from MIT's Media Lab. In effect, media now begs to be redefined. In a new introduction to this edition of Understanding Media, Harper's editor Lewis Lapham reevaluates McLuhan's work in the light of the technological as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in the last part of this century.

The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before. Readers will be amazed by McLuhan's prescience, unmatched by anyone since, predicting as he did the dramatic technological innovations that have fundamentally changed how we communicate. The Gutenberg Galaxy foresaw the networked, compressed 'global village' that would emerge in the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries - despite having been written when black-and-white television was ubiquitous. This new edition of The Gutenberg Galaxy celebrates both the centennial of McLuhan's birth and the fifty-year anniversary of the book's publication. A new interior design updates The Gutenberg Galaxy for twenty-first-century readers, while honouring the innovative, avant-garde spirit of the original. This edition also includes new introductory essays that illuminate McLuhan's lasting effect on a variety of scholarly fields and popular culture. A must-read for those who inhabit today's global village, The Gutenberg Galaxy is an indispensable road map for our evolving communication landscape.

Extending the visionary early work of the late Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village , one of his last collaborative efforts, applies that vision to today's worldwide, integrated electronic network.
When McLuhan's groundbreaking Understanding Media was published in 1964, the media as we know it today did not exist. But McLuhan's argument, that the technological extensions of human consciousness were racing ahead of our ability to understand their consequences, has never been more compelling. And if the medium is the message, as McLuhan maintained, then the message is becoming almost impossible to decipher.
In The Global Village , McLuhan and co-author Bruce R. Powers propose a detailed conceptual framework in terms of which the technological advances of the past two decades may be understood. At the heart of their theory is the argument that today's users of technology are caught between two very different ways of perceiving the world. On the one hand there is what they refer to as Visual Space--the linear, quantitative mode of perception that is characteristic of the Western world; on the other hand there is Acoustic Space--the holistic, qualitative reasoning of the East. The medium of print, the authors argue, fosters and preserves the perception of Visual Space; but, like television, the technologies of the data base, the communications satellite, and the global media network are pushing their users towards the more dynamic, "many-centered" orientation of Acoustic Space.
The authors warn, however, that this movement towards Acoustic Space may not go smoothly. Indeed, McLuhan and Powers argue that with the advent of the global village--the result of worldwide communications--these two worldviews "are slamming into each other at the speed of light," asserting that "the key to peace is to understand both these systems simultaneously."
Employing McLuhan's concept of the Tetrad--a device for predicting the changes wrought by new technologies--the authors analyze this collision of viewpoints. Taking no sides, they seek to do today what McLuhan did so successfully twenty-five years ago--to look around the corner of the coming world, and to help us all be prepared for what we will find there.