《自由在高处》是作者对《重新发现社会》一书的重要补充。旨在从个体角度探讨身处转型期的人们如何超越逆境，盘活自由，拓展生存，积极生活。帕得里克说“不自由，毋宁死”，熊培云则说“不自由，仍可活”。自由与自救，是本书的方向与重点。

中国历史典籍浩如烟海，常使初学者不得其门而入。作者倡导“大历史”（macro-history），主张利用归纳法将现有史料高度压缩，先构成一个简明而前后连贯的纳领，然后在与欧美史比较的基础上加以研究。本书从技术的角度分析中国历史的进程，着眼于现代型的经济体制如何为传统社会所不容，以及是何契机使其在中国土地上落脚。
为什么称为“中国大历史”？中国过去150年内经过人类历史上规模最大的一次革命，从一个闭关自守中世纪的国家蜕变而为一个现代国家，影响到10亿人口的思想信仰、婚姻教育与衣食住行，其情形不容许我们用寻常尺度衡量。

作者是台湾的“中国文化体践者”、朱天文口中的“武士”。
本书主要分两部分：上篇《孔子九章》，以笃诚、优游之笔闲谈孔子，形象鲜明，生气灵动，活泼泼跃然纸上，呼之欲出；下篇《论语随喜》，细绎空门话语，灵犀一点，感而遂通，胜义纷呈，令人神旺,让读者可以看小说一般看《论语》。全书无意新解，却自有一派风光，吞吐开阖，气象宏阔，令人不禁发思古之幽情。

作者以《庄子》的文本为线索，从历史上复杂的阐释与实践中勾勒出道家学说恢弘的文化版图，而跨学科的旁征博引又有助于我们以全新的社会科学的眼光，以当代的人文素养，反观两千多年前的古老智慧。 熊逸说：“我原本的兴趣并不是思想史，而是一般意义上的历史，后来发现这样读历史很不流畅，甚至还生出了越来越强的隔膜感，在知道了越来越多的‘是什么’之后，反而不知道越来越多的‘为什么’。
“于是我想，是不是应该借鉴人类学家在土著部落搞田野调查的态度，即深入到土著人的生活里，讲他们的语言，参加他们的礼拜和狂欢，先让自己成为他们的一员，在他们的内部理解他们，然后再跳脱出来，在他们的外部思考他们。同样地，把历史当做一个悬隔在我们世界之外的世界，设想自己生活在一段历史当中，生活在一些虚虚实实的历史人物当中，讲他们的语言，学习他们的必修课程，会写一手和他们一样的诗词和文章（甚至是八股文），参加他们的诗会、祭祀典礼和科举考试，先让自己成为他们的一员，在他们的内部来理解他们。
“……我的兴趣正是由此而转入了思想史，先去理解古人行为背后的观念，在思想脉络里来理解人的行为与社会的走向。而走进去，并不意味着‘一入侯门深似海’，还要走出来才行。所谓走出来，就是用现代知识来思考古代社会。毕竟文明发展了，知识进步了，今天种种社会科学的研究已经大大超越于古人之上，让我们可以站在无数巨人的肩膀上，享受一下比古人耳聪目明的乐趣。譬如对《老子》的无为之治与儒家礼治、法家法治之争，只要有现代政治学、社会学的基本素养，我们就会看得比古人清楚很多；对王安石与司马光的变法与守旧之争，现代经济学的研究成果则可以让我们在具体的经济问题上一言而定是非……”

宗先生一生著述不多，而《美学散步》则几乎汇集了其一生最精要的美学篇章，也是先生生前唯一的一部美不著作。初版于1981年，此次重版，除新增若干照片、校正部分错字外，基本保持原貌。对于这样一位源生于传统文化、洋溢着艺术灵性和诗情、深得中国美学精魂的大师以及他散步时低低的脚步声，在日益强大的现代化的机器轰鸣声中，也许再也难以再现了。然而，如何在愈益紧张的异化世界里，保持住人间的诗意和生命的憧憬，不正是现代人所要关注的一个世界性问题吗？而《美学散步》正好能给我们以这方面的启迪。

"Marketing Management: A Contemporary Perspective" provides a fresh new perspective on marketing from some of the leading researchers in Europe. The book offers students and practitioners the comprehensive coverage they need to make the right decisions to create and implement highly successful marketing strategies. This exciting new book combines scholarly international research with relevant and contemporary examples from markets and brands across the world. The authors combine their experience as researchers and industry consultants to provide the conceptual and theoretical underpinning of marketing and empirical research, helping students to understand how marketing concepts can be applied and implemented. The book covers a full range of industries including business-to-customer, business-to-business, services marketing, retailing and international marketing from companies around the globe. Marketing Management is an authoritative investigation of contemporary marketing. It is a thorough, carefully crafted, and comprehensive resource that helps to understand and solve the challenges in implementing successful marketing. Professor Thomas S. Robertson, Wharton School Marketing Management combines the best features of a reference and textbook. It skillfully integrates the important conceptual foundations in marketing with practical applications to serve as an essential and excellent book for both marketing students and marketing professionals.

For undergraduate and graduate database management courses. Provide the latest information in database development. Focusing on what leading database practitioners say are the most important aspects to database development, Modern Database Management presents sound pedagogy and includes topics that are critical for the practical success of database professionals. This text also continues to guide students into the future by presenting research that could reveal the next big thing in database management. The tenth edition reflects the major trends in information systems and helps students acquire the skills the need to be successful in today's database management field.
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In this work the distinguished physical chemist and philosopher, Michael Polanyi, demonstrates that the scientist's personal participation in his knowledge, in both its discovery and its validation, is an indispensable part of science itself. Even in the exact sciences, "knowing" is an art, of which the skill of the knower, guided by his personal committment and his passionate sense of increasing contact with reality, is a logically necessary part. In the biological and social sciences this becomes even more evident.

In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life.A brilliant polymath in an age of increasing specialization, Simon is one of those rare scholars whose work defines fields of inquiry. Crossing disciplinary lines in half a dozen fields, Simon's story encompasses an explosion in the information sciences, the transformation of psychology by the information-processing paradigm, and the use of computer simulation for modeling the behavior of highly complex systems.Simon's theory of bounded rationality led to a Nobel Prize in economics, and his work on building machines that think—based on the notion that human intelligence is the rule-governed manipulation of symbols—laid conceptual foundations for the new cognitive science. Subsequently, contrasting metaphors of the maze (Simon's view) and of the mind (neural nets) have dominated the artificial intelligence debate.There is also a warm account of his successful marriage and of an unconsummated love affair, letters to his children, columns, a short story, and political and personal intrigue in academe.

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In this fourth edition of his ground-breaking work, Herbert A. Simon applies his pioneering theory of human choice and administrative decision-making to concrete organizational problems. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the book's original publication, Professor Simon enhances his timeless observations on the human decision-making process with commentaries examining new facets of organizational behavior. Investigating the impact of changing social values and modem technology on the operation of organizations, the new ideas featured in this revised edition update a book that has become a worldwide classic.

Named by Public Administration Review as "Book of the Half Century," Administrative Behavior is considered one of the most influential books on social science thinking, and was referred to by the Nobel Committee as "epoch-making."

Written for managers and other professionals who wish to understand the decision-making processes at the heart of organization and management, it is also essential reading for students in business and management, economics, sociology, psychology computer science, government, and law.

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Free Press, March 1997
Hardcover, 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0-684-83582-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83582-2

Because of the difficulty posed by the contrast between the search for truth and truth itself, Michael Polanyi believes that we must alter the foundation of epistemology to include as essential to the very nature of mind, the kind of groping that constitutes the recognition of a problem. This collection of essays, assembled by Marjorie Grene, exemplifies the development of Polanyi's theory of knowledge which was first presented in "Science, Faith, and Society" and later systematized in "Personal Knowledge." Polanyi believes that the dilemma of the modern mind arises from the peculiar relation between the positivist claim for total objectivity in scientific knowledge and the unprecedented moral dynamism characterizing the social and political aspirations of the last century. The first part of "Knowing and Being" deals with this theme. Part two develops Polanyi's idea that centralization is incompatible with the life of science as well as his views on the role of tradition and authority in science. The essays on tacit knowing in Part Three proceed directly from his preoccupation with the nature of scientific discovery and reveal a pervasive substructure of all intelligent behavior. Polanyi believes that all knowing involves movement from internal clues to external evidence. Therefore, to explain the process of knowing, we must develop a theory of the nature of living things in general, including an account of that aspect of living things we call "mind." Part Four elaborates upon this theme.

《新编诸子集成:荀子集解》讲述荀子，名况，号卿。约生于公元前313年，死于公元前238年。战国时赵国（在今安泽一带）人。他是战国末期儒家学派中的大师，是我国古代杰出的唯物主义思想象、教育家。李斯、韩非都是他的学生。荀况一生到过很多地方。曾在齐国游学，在稷下（今山东临淄北）学宫同各个学派的学者进行学术交流和讨论，并二次担任学宫祭酒（行礼时的首席）。后来又到过秦国、赵国。他对社会历史进行反思，对中国传统思想的历史渊源、学术流派及现实政治问题都做了较为系统全面的剖析和价值评判。

Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. He hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His book examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as he anticipates the enormous impact—in effect, a third industrial revolution—that the computer has had on our lives.

Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools -- chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms -- for analyzing complexity and complex systems.There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action. The chapter "Economic Reality" has also been revised to reflect a change in emphasis in Simon's thinking about the respective roles of organizations and markets in economic systems.

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