Sir Alfred Ayer caused a furore with the publication of his LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC in 1936, when he was only 24. From 1959 until 1978 he was Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He died in 1989. Ben Rogers is the author of A. J.AYER: A LIFE (Chatto & Windus 1999, Vintage 2000). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Classic introduction to objectives and methods of schools of empiricism and linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth and probability, critique of ethics and theology, self and the common world, more. "A delightful book...I should like to have written it myself."—Bertrand Russell.

《约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯》检阅了约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯的著作，揭示了凯恩斯影响深远的著作和理论，附带着评价了凯恩斯的传奇经历。戴维森着眼于导致凯恩斯写出影响深远的《通论》的早期生涯，并追寻这本著作的早期影响力，详细介绍了《通论》，并解释了《约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯》如何不同于古典经济学理论。《约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯》还对凯恩斯著作对战后经济以及今天的影响力进行了评价。

Most of the essays in this book were first collected together in October 1931, immediately after Britain had left the gold standard. They reflected Keynes's attempts over the previous dozen years to influence public opinion and policy over the Treaty of Versailles, over which he had resigned from the Treasury in June 1919, reparations and inter-allied war debts, stabilisation policy, the gold standard and the shape of liberal politics in Britain. In 1972 the essays were reprinted but with the full texts of the pamphlets he had included -- Can Lloyd George Do it?, The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill, A Short View of Russia, and The End of Laissez Faire. At that time, the full texts of his of his two post-1931 pamphlets -- The Means to Prosperity and How to Pay for the War -- were added. As a result the book contains examples of Keynes's finest writing on economic policy and politics.

The papers in this collection were presented at a symposium sponsored by the Conference on British Studies at the University of Delaware. Six leading experts on different aspects of eighteenth-century Britain wrote on a general theme which cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. This theme is the lot of the ordinary individual in eighteenth-century society. This collection provides a wealth of information and valuable insights for the scholar of eighteenth-century Britain.

Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form. A particular feature is Giddensa s concern to connect abstract problems of theory to an interpretation of the nature of empirical method in the social sciences. In presenting his own ideas, Giddens mounts a critical attack on some of the more orthodox sociological views. The Constitution of Society is an invaluable reference book for all those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.

The Olympics is the world's biggest sporting event - and it moves centre stage for London 2012. Yet the sports the world is familiar with - football, cricket, rugby, baseball, motor sports - are either missing or have a token presence. In their place are games that most of us have not a clue how to play or to watch. Which is where this witty, insightful book comes into play, offering the back story behind each Olympics sport and, by means of fiendishly clever diagrams and prose, explaining the rules and finer points. Once you've read David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton's accounts, you'll be on tenterhooks to see whether the Danish or the Koreans triumph at handball, just what the Italian fencers are up to, and if Greco-Roman wrestling really is like a game of chess.

簡介
本書網羅有關英國的方方面面，不只是純文化的，也有政治的、經濟的、歷史的、宗教的、名利場的、生活的，乃至娛樂八卦的，其中既有人人耳熟能詳卻未能深知的大眾話題，又有英國以外的讀者從未聽聞的小眾八卦。作者以獨特的視角，透過生動的筆觸和有序的組織，將這個老牌帝國細密如蜘蛛網的文化體中最引領風尚的一面呈獻給讀者。讀畢此書，原本熱愛英國社會文化的讀者將更加迷戀這個國家，對英國只有膚淺認識的讀者將開始被這個國家吸引。
（简介摘自三联书店网页）

本书共收录了艾略特在1919年至1936年期间18篇评论文章和演讲稿。凭借其深厚的文学蕴涵和冷静敏锐的洞察力，这名出色的批评家对英国文学史上具有时代重要性的代表诗人进行了承前启后的审视，同时也表达了自己对文学批评的意义和手法的独到见解。

這裡的食物閃耀著螢光色澤，好像隨時都會醒來……
在這裡，你無法明確判斷眼前的東西能不能食用。你可以津津有味地嚼一頂帽子，或是朝牆壁咬下一大口；同樣的，你也可以用午餐的食材蓋一間小屋子。
在這裡，只要一把刀，就能把食材處理成各種形狀。你可以「切」，可以「片」，也可以「斬」「砍」「捶」「刮」「剜」，再加上切入的角度和切割的方向，變化出千變萬化的刀法。
在這裡，食物完全融入人們的日常生活，甚至人們的語言。他們說在愛情裡嫉妒的人是「吃醋」，「吃苦」則是對於生存的悲傷與艱難最好的形容。
這裡是中國，一個奇妙的飲食大國。
這本書是關於中國菜出乎意料的美好，也是一個英國女孩在中國的冒險故事
獲得英國飲食作家工會大獎肯定的扶霞在一九九四年前往中國長住。打從一開始她就發誓不論人家請她吃什麼，不管那食物有多麼古怪，她一律來者不拒。在這本難得一見的回憶錄中，扶霞追溯自己和中國飲食之間的關係演進：第一次與四川料理相遇時的神魂顛倒、親眼目睹雞鴨被宰殺時的驚嚇、體驗千變萬化的刀工、對養生飲食的嘆服、品嘗珍稀野味時內心的道德兩難等等。
在這段迷人的旅途中，扶霞曾經是川菜廚師學徒，也曾試圖說服中國人「西餐」既不單調也不簡單，結果卻令人啼笑皆非；她還品嘗過各種珍禽異獸，包括狗肉、果子狸、蠍子、兔腦殼、卵巢脂肪製成的雪蛤。但一個西方人究竟可不可能完全接受中國的飲食習慣？當扶霞回到英國老家的廚房時，她看著一隻鮮嫩的淺綠色毛毛蟲，猶豫著該不該把牠吃下去……
透過扶霞的眼睛，我們得以用全新的角度來了解我們熟悉的中國菜。原來不同地方的食物，都有其獨一無二的氣質。川菜的辣帶著一絲絲的甜味，就像悠閒而迷人的四川人，總是帶著一絲甜甜的體貼；湘菜直接又毫無妥協餘地，就跟那裡培養出來的軍隊領袖一樣；揚州菜則是太平盛世的食物，溫暖而撫慰人心。
從四川熱鬧的市場到甘肅北部荒僻的風景，從福建的深山到迷人的揚州古城，本書呈現了中式料理讓人難忘的美妙滋味，也深刻地描繪出中西飲食文化差異，兼具人文觀察與幽默趣味。這是世上最令人目眩神迷的烹飪文化，最道地的記述。
作者簡介
扶霞．鄧洛普Fuchsia Dunlop
在牛津長大，於劍橋大學取得英國文學學士學位，其後於倫敦亞非學院以名列前茅的優異成績獲得中國研究碩士學位。一九九四年，扶霞在獲得了英國文化協會獎學金補助後，前往中國四川大學就讀一年；其後又在四川烹飪高等專科學校接受了三個月的專業廚師訓練。
扶霞著有三本書，分別是《四川烹飪》（Sichuan Cookery，在美國以《天府之國》（Land of Plenty）書名出版）、《湘菜譜》（Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province）、《魚翅與花椒》（Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China）。
她在BBC中文頻道首度與中國當地電台合作時，擔任與成都電台合作的「吃東吃西」電台節目共同製作人，這是一系列以飲食為主題的雙語節目。她的文章曾刊登於各大報章雜誌，包括《金融時報》《紐約客》《美食家》《四川烹飪》雜誌等。她的作品也先後贏得了許多獎項。二○一○年，湖南省政府特別頒獎以肯定扶霞對湖南料理國際化的貢獻。
扶霞在最近十年裡，長期從事演講與烹飪示範工作，有時是獨立進行，有時則是和中國廚師合作，足跡踏遍了巴塞隆納、雪梨、紐約、加州、杜林、北京、上海與成都。她還曾擔任過中國烹飪旅行團的領隊。扶霞目前是倫敦「水月巴山餐飲集團」的顧問，負責對這家川菜館的菜單提出建議，同時指導或協助員工訓練，以及接待媒體的採訪。
譯者簡介
鍾沛君
台大外文系、輔大翻譯研究所畢業，專職中英同∕逐步口譯、書籍文件筆譯，譯有暢銷書《大腦、演化、人》《與神共餐》。

After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself in an English kitchen, deciding whether to eat a caterpillar she has accidentally cooked in some home-grown vegetables. How can something she has eaten readily in China seem grotesque in England? The question lingers over this "autobiographical food-and-travel classic" (Publishers Weekly).

《英国人的言行潜规则》的出版引起英国人自己的大辩论，有人认为它泄露了太多英国人的秘密，也有人认为它一针见血地揭露了英国人行事风格背后的潜规则。不过所有人都一致同意，这本书实在是太有趣了。“老实说，我真弄不懂，人类学家想要研究那些带有古怪观念、神秘习俗的陌生部族文化，为何非要冒着得痢疾、疟疾的危险，大老远地跑到偏远地方，而最古怪、最叫人费解的部族明明近在眼前嘛。”
为什么英国人一见面总是在谈天气，英国酒吧要有多种游戏器具？为什么英国人似乎都有社交拘泥症，而英国足球流氓却一反常态？《英国人的言行潜规则》作者将这些带有民族性的怪癖和性情放在人类学的显微镜下，从中发现了奇异而迷人的文化，以及背后错综复杂的不成文规矩和透着神秘感的行为规范。

Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have since reinforced the central importance of nationalism in the history of the political evolution and upheaval. This second edition has been updated in light of those events, with a final chapter addressing the impact of the dramatic changes that have taken place. Also included are additional maps to illustrate nationalities, languages and political divisions across Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book is a study of the origins and development of Greek science, focusing especially on the interactions of scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC. The starting point is an examination of how certain Greek authors deployed the category of 'magic' and attacked magical beliefs and practices, and these attacks are related to their complex background in Greek medicine and speculative thought. In his second chapter Dr Lloyd outlines the development, and assesses the significance, of the theory and practice of argument in early Greek science, and he follows this with a study of the development of empirical research. Finally the author confronts the question of why the Greeks invented science: what precisely was their contribution to science, and what social, economic, ideological and political factors had a bearing on the growth of science in Greece.