作为20世纪欧洲卓越的科学家和哲学家，迈克尔·波兰尼(NiChael P01anyi，189l—1976)凭其著名的意会(tacit)认知理论和富有人性的科学哲学观引发了现代认识论上一场根本性的变革。 《科学、信仰和社会》是根据1946年波兰尼在英国达勒姆大学(University of Durham)发表的路德演讲结成的集子，该书是波兰尼第一部系统的科学哲学著作，可说是波兰尼哲学生涯的开端，波氏在其中首次阐明了自己哲学的总体轮廓，同时也为他最主要的作品《个人知识》一书做了一些基础性的工作。该系列演讲概括地陈述了波兰尼的科学观，包括科学发现的性质和特点以及通过发现的正确道路，首次将科学客观性的问题放在一个大的语境中加以讨论。从而使人们意识到有必要在这个大的语境中重新考虑一些问题，这就是波氏关于知识的理论的起点。

本文集包含迈克尔·波兰尼已发表的有关非科学论题的文章。它不包括任何未刊文章。而且不包括所有收编在《自由的逻辑》、《个人知识》和《认识与存在》中的文章。目的是让人们更容易找到那些来自其他书籍中的文章，这些其余书籍中包含自《自由的逻辑》以来波兰尼的诸多著作中找不到的材料，从而提供一个那些著作的补遗。因此它不可避免是一本来源迥异的选集，范围从他最早于1917年发表的一篇非科学文章直至最后于1972年发表的两篇，而且并不要求协调一致。例如，由于尽管波兰尼继续写作和发表关于经济学的文章，而自《自由的逻辑》(1951)以来波兰尼的所有著作都没有包括任何关于经济理论的东西，因此这里必然就包括某种分量上相对占优势的关于经济理论的文章。

迈克尔•波兰尼被哲学界公认为引发了当代认识论革命的大师级哲学家和化学家，从多方面影响了哈耶克，包括哈耶克的“自发秩序”概念。《充分就业与自由贸易》是其重要的经济理论著作，也是当时为数不多的一本具有开创性和前瞻性贡献的货币理论著作，极具学术份量和现实意义。波兰尼在《充分就业与自由贸易》中关于货币理论的思想既不同于古典的货币数量论，也不同于凯恩斯的理论，而是提出一种综合了凯恩斯主义和货币学派经济学的理论。此书所提出的主张和弗里德曼在其30年后提出的理论相近。

本书在文徵明研究中开辟了新的领域，全书通过解读明代书画泰斗文徵明以艺术之名的社交和明代复杂的社交关系，以“社会艺术史”的角度重构了文徵明的一生，大写的“艺术家”被还原为社会关系网络中的文人雅士，在各种不同的场合、不同的时机中展露着他的才华和性情，从人情义务与礼物交换的角度重新审视文徵明。该书为三联书店重点图书“开放的艺术史”系列中最新的一种。

约翰·霍布森对西方崛起论中占主流的种族中心主义偏见提出了挑战。这种偏见通常认为，欧洲人早在古希腊时代就开创了其自身的发展，而东方在世界历史发展进程中只是一个消极的旁观者。霍布森则认为，有两个过程导致了东方化西方的崛起。首先，欧洲发展的每个重要转折点，很大程度上都是通过吸收东方发明（如思想、技术和制度等）而完成的，在公元500至1800年之间，这些东方发明通过东方全球化，从先进的东方向东方主导的全球经济扩散；其次，1453年后欧洲身份的构建导致了帝国主义的产生，由此欧洲人攫取了诸多东方资源（土地、劳动力和市场）。因此，霍布森的书把迄今为止仍被边缘化的东方民族推到了世界历史发展进程的最前列。

The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes. In the modern experimentalist paradigm, these techniques address clear causal questions such as: Do smaller classes increase learning? Should wife batterers be arrested? How much does education raise wages? Mostly Harmless Econometrics shows how the basic tools of applied econometrics allow the data to speak.
In addition to econometric essentials, Mostly Harmless Econometrics covers important new extensions--regression-discontinuity designs and quantile regression--as well as how to get standard errors right. Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke explain why fancier econometric techniques are typically unnecessary and even dangerous. The applied econometric methods emphasized in this book are easy to use and relevant for many areas of contemporary social science.
* An irreverent review of econometric essentials
* A focus on tools that applied researchers use most
* Chapters on regression-discontinuity designs, quantile regression, and standard errors
* Many empirical examples
* A clear and concise resource with wide applications

《20世纪思想史》(上下)以独特的视角切入对整个20世纪发展脉络的洞察和理解，作者在占有大量信息的基础上，以一批塑造和改变了整个20世纪的人和理念为线索，勾画了一部生动而清晰的20世纪思想史。作者倾一己之力撰写的这本百万字的巨著，一经出版便在西方知识界引起强烈反响，自2000年初版以来，已多次重印和修订，被誉为从当代视角解读20世纪的最为杰出的作品。伴随作者清新而又内容翔实的描述，我们恣意畅游于20世纪哲学、文学、历史、政治、艺术、科学等各个领域，并在作者编织的20世纪之网中清楚地看到诸多领域之间细腻的联系，及其与整个20世纪历史之间的互动关系。在愉快的阅读中完成对20世纪的一次思想游历，对于21世纪之初的思想界和广大读者而言，的确都是一件幸事。

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.
Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again...

This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax. "Sources and Backgrounds" collects relevant passages from the Bible and Milton's prose writings, including selections from The Reason of Church Government and the full text of Areopagitica. "Criticism" brings together classic interpretations by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Victor Hugo, and T. S. Eliot, among others, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, Christopher Ricks, and Helen Vendler. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

In one volume. The classic defense of intellectual liberty and the freedom to publish, and Milton's plan for training rulers to be fit to govern. Also includes three autobiographical passages from other prose works. Edited by George H. Sabine, who provides a short introduction, this edition also contains a list of principal dates in the life of Milton and a bibliography.

Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from a number of perspectives that together constitute a major new overview of the subject. History, Religion, and Culture begins with eighteenth-century historiography, especially Gibbon's Decline and Fall. It takes up different aspects of the place of religion in nineteenth-century cultural and political life, such as attitudes towards the native religions of India, the Victorian perception of Oliver Cromwell, and the religious sensibility of John Ruskin. Finally, in discussions which range up to the middle of the twentieth century, the volume explores relations between scientific ideas about change or development and assumptions about the nature and growth of the national community.

J.D. Bernal, widely known as Sage since his undergraduate days at Cambridge, was a visionary scientist who was the first to see that the new subject of X-ray crystallography could be applied to the study of life. His pioneering work at Cambridge in the 1930s laid the foundation of molecular biology. He was one of the most influential and brilliant scientists of his time, inspiring many subsequent Nobel laureates. Bernal's restless energy and legendary intellect took him far beyond science. An astonishing polymath and a fervent Marxist, he was one of the central figures in a cosmopolitan intelligentsia in an age of extremes. The story of Bernal's life reflects the extraordinary political and intellectual climate in which he lived. He was witness to (and often involved in) some of the great events of the 20th century: the Easter Rebellion, schooldays in the Great War, the anti-fascist movement, the Second World War, pacifist causes and nuclear disarmament during the Cold War. He was a pioneer of Operational Research during WW2 and made the first objective analyses of the effects of bombing on cities. As this biography shows, he played a crucial role in planning the D-Day landings, arriving secretly on the Normandy beaches himself a day later. After the war, he became an international ambassador for Marxism, science, and peace, and was one of the few men familiar with Downing Street, the White House and the Kremlin. Brown's biography sets out a life richly and fully lived. Nearly every important British scientist of the mid-third of the 20th century appears in its pages, along with artists (Picasso, Hepworth), writers (Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Neruda) and statesmen (Churchill, Khrushchev, Mao, and Nehru). This compelling account draws on unprecedented access to Bernal's papers and war reports to piece together a dazzling image of Bernal: his Irish Catholic childhood, his Cambridge years, his research, his dedication to science, his intellectual brilliance, his blind, unswerving commitment to Marxism, his unorthodox Bohemian love life. But above all, the Bernal who emerges from this often critical account is a man not only of remarkable mental powers but of great warmth, kindness, and humanity.

'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.'
Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the 'sophistry and illusion' of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the eighteenth century and are strikingly relevant today, when faith and science continue to clash.
The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought, reaching the stark conclusion that we can have no ultimate understanding of the physical world, or indeed our own minds. In either sphere we must depend on instinctive learning from experience, recognizing our animal nature and the limits of reason. Hume's calm and open-minded scepticism thus aims to provide a new basis for science, liberating us from the 'superstition' of false metaphysics and religion. His Enquiry remains one of the best introductions to the study of philosophy, and this edition places it in its historical and philosophical context.

More than any other event, the First World War made the twentieth century. In this boldly conceived book, aimed to appeal not only to students but also to the general reader, Niall Ferguson explodes many of the myths surrounding the war.

This book provides a general survey of the life and work of the Spanish philosopher and essayist Ortega y Gasset (1183-1955), author of the widely read The Revolt of the Masses. Dr Dobson divides his study into sections devoted to Ortega's political thinking and to his philosophy, rooting these in the context of contemporary Spain and discussing the wider implications of their influence. He examines Ortega's position with regard to the Civil War, his ambivalent espousal of socialism, his emphasis on the importance of the select individual in the modernisation of society and creation of a nacio vital; the appropriation of his ideas by Primo de Rivera in the cause of fascism. This book is intended to be accessible to both Hispanists and general readers with an interest in literature, history, intellectual and political thought and philosophy.

《西方政治思想史(套装上下册)》可以说是从底下写起，注意统治者。也兼重被治者。我向来认为，历来论者对人民——有时称为暴民——所下的功夫一直不够。政治的素材是人，一位思想家对这素材的观点一定会影响他对政治可能及应有境界的想法。不过，我发现这样的写法报不容易维持，因为思想家关于政治共同体素材的看法往往深藏在他们的著作文字之中，这些文字篇章必须摆到刑架上拷问，才吐露实情。而人人都知道，拷问逼供得到的案情挺不可靠。