A beginner's guide to the later philosophy of Wittgenstein
【I S B N】9781839991134
【作 者】Hacker, P. M. S.
【出版社】Anthem Press, 2024
【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）
【索书号】B561.59 /H118b /E
【简 介】Wittgenstein is acknowledged as one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth-century, but he is often considered to be difficult to read, let alone to understand. In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker, a leading authority on the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein and author of a dozen books on the subject, introduces a selection of the leading ideas in Wittgenstein’s masterwork, the Philosophical Investigations. The Guide presupposes no philosophical knowledge, only curiosity and a willingness to shed prejudices. It presents a magisterial understanding of the Investigations in an accessible and witty form.
Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice
【I S B N】9781529227277
【作 者】Sipley, Gina
【出版社】 Bristol University Press, 2024
【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库
【索书号】C912.63 /S618 /E
【简 介】We all sometimes ‘lurk’ in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever passive acts. In fact, readers of social media are making decisions and taking grassroots actions on multiple dimensions.
Unpacking this understudied phenomenon, this book challenges the conventional perspective of what counts as participatory online culture. Presenting lurking as a communication and literacy practice that resists dominant power structures, it offers an innovative approach to digital qualitative methods.
Unique and original in its subject, this is a call for internet researchers to broaden their methods to include lurkers’ participation and presence.
The Essence of Leadership: Maintaining Emotional Independence in Situations Requiring Change
【I S B N】9781032734835
【作 者】Anderson, Derek W.
【出版社】Routledge, 2024
【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库
【索书号】C933 /A546e /E
【简介】The world is experiencing a leadership crisis. The Essence of Leadership addresses this concern by empowering self-differentiated leadership. The authors draw on family systems thinking, foundational to family therapy, psychodynamic theory, a recognized lens on human nature, and proven process management tools. The core message explored over seven chapters is that a leader’s management of their own anxiety and the anxiety in a system has direct implications for their effectiveness in bringing change.
Modern Slavery in Global Context: Human Rights, Law, and Society
【I S B N】9781529224702
【作 者】Elizabeth A. Faulkner
【出版社】 Bristol University Press, 2024
【馆藏地】江湾馆文科借阅区
【索书号】D998.2 /M689 /E
【简 介】This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery.
It illustrates how different disciplinary positions, methodologies and perspectives form and clash together through a kaleidoscopic view to contribute a unique insight into critical modern slavery studies. Providing a platform to critique the legal, ideological and political responses to the issue, experts interrogate the construct of modern slavery and the anti-trafficking discourse which have dominated contemporary responses to and understandings of exploitation.
Drawing on a range of global real-world examples, this is a vital contribution to the study of modern slavery.
Macroeconomics after Kalecki and Keynes: Post-Keynesian Foundations
【I S B N】9781035339044
【作 者】 Eckhard Hein
【出版社】Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库
【索书号】F015 /H468 /E
【简 介】Presenting an in-depth overview of the foundations and developments of post-Keynesian macroeconomics since Kalecki and Keynes, this timely book develops a comprehensive post-Keynesian macroeconomic model with the respective macroeconomic policy mix for achieving non-inflationary full employment.
The different versions of the model for closed and open economies are concerned with the key areas of macroeconomics, such as full employment, constant inflation and external balance. Eckhard Hein expertly illustrates how to embed these post-Keynesian macroeconomics and macroeconomic policies into the post-Keynesian research programme more generally, whilst also providing a review of its methods and historical roots. Furthermore, the book links post-Keynesian short-run macroeconomics to long-run distribution and growth theories. Finally, it applies these theoretical approaches to the current research on macroeconomic regimes and regime changes within finance-dominated capitalism and on the macroeconomic challenges of the ecological crisis and of the required socio-ecological transformation.
The mathematics of shuffling cards
【I S B N】1470463032
【作 者】Diaconis, Persi
【出版社American Mathematical Society, 2023
【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库
【索书号】G892.1 /D536 /E
【简 介】This book gives a lively development of the mathematics needed to answer the question, “How many times should a deck of cards be shuffled to mix it up?” The shuffles studied are the usual ones that real people use: riffle, overhand, and smooshing cards around on the table.
The mathematics ranges from probability (Markov chains) to combinatorics (symmetric function theory) to algebra (Hopf algebras). There are applications to magic tricks and gambling along with a careful comparison of the mathematics to the results of real people shuffling real cards. The book explores links between shuffling and higher mathematics—Lie theory, algebraic topology, the geometry of hyperplane arrangements, stochastic calculus, number theory, and more. It offers a useful springboard for seeing how probability theory is applied and leads to many corners of advanced mathematics.
Landmarks in the History of the English Language
【I S B N】9781032229904
【作 者】Johnson, Keith
【出版社】Routledge, 2024
【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）
【索书号】H310.9 /J67 /E
【简 介】Landmarks in the History of the English Language identifies twelve key landmarks spread throughout the language’s history to provide a lively and interesting introduction to the history of English.
Each landmark focuses on one individual associated with the key moment which helps to engage the reader and provide the history of the language with a ‘human face’. The landmarks range from Alfred the Great and his attempts to further English through its use in education, to the spread of English worldwide and the work of the linguist Braj Kachru. The final chapter takes a look into the future through the writings of David Crystal. Whilst focusing on the specific events and people, the book includes a broad outline of the history of English so that the reader can locate each landmark within the language’s history.
Female Devotion and Textile Imagery in Medieval English Literature
【I S B N】1843847132
【作 者】McKay, Anna Frances
【出版社】D. S. Brewer, 2024
【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）
【索书号】I561.063 /M153 /E
【简 介】For millennia, women have spoken and read through cloth. The literature and art of the Middle Ages are replete with images of women working cloth, wielding spindles, distaffs, and needles, or sitting at their looms. Yet they have been little explored. Drawing upon the burgeoning field of medieval textile studies, as well as contemporary theories of gender, materiality, and eco-criticism, this study illustrates how textiles provide a hermeneutical alternative to the patriarchally-dominated written word. It puts forward the argument that women's devotion during this period was a "fabricated" phenomenon, a mode of spirituality and religious exegesis expressed, devised, and practised through cloth. Centred on four icons of female devotion (Eve, Mary, St Veronica, and - of course - Christ), the book explores a broad range of narratives from across the rich tapestry of medieval English literature, from the fields of Piers Plowman to the late medieval Morte D'arthur; the devotions of Margery Kempe to the visionary experiences of Julian of Norwich; Gervase of Tilbury's fabulous Otia Imperialia to the anchoritic guidance literature of the Middle Ages; and the innumerable (and oft-forgotten) lives of Christ, prayers, legends, and miracle tales in between.
French paintings 1500-1900
【I S B N】1911054643
【作 者】Michael Clarke and Frances Fowle
【出版社】National Galleries of Scotland, 2023
【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）
【索书号】J205.565 /F877 /E
【简 介】The definitive guide to the National Galleries of Scotland remarkable collection of French paintings. An outstanding collection of French paintings is described fully in this two-volume illustrated catalogue. Underpinned by extensive scholarly research, this comprehensive work includes many of the great names, including Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Poussin, Watteau and Delacroix.
Since opening its doors in 1859, the Scottish National Gallery’s collection of French paintings has grown continuously, reflecting changing tastes and priorities, thanks to inspired and enlightened purchases and many generous donations. The collection’s fascinating history is related in the introductory essay.
Each artist is introduced by a concise biography, followed by a study of their individual works featuring the most up-to-date research. Illustrating and describing 189 works of art, this catalogue is the definitive authority on the French paintings in Scotland’s national collection.
Reading the dream
【I S B N】9781538181515
【作 者】Scott, Peter Dale
【出版社】Rowman & Littlefield, 2024
【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）
【索书号】K02 /S428 /E
【简 介】In Reading the Dream the poet and scholar Peter Dale Scott has composed a poem in prose for our time. This is a work of art emerging from a passionate social vision. Scott examines our present state of post-secularity through the imagination of the past. Using devices such as the rational and nonrational, or the yin and the yang, Scott focuses not just on the reasoned current of written history but also on myths, beliefs, and even dreams. The author searches for moreness throughout the culture of the past. He reawakens the ultimate human quest for transcendence of ourselves to repair a political order in ruins.
This book seeks to transcend the slow breakdown of our current global political order by returning to its generative cultural roots in enmindment (that is, both secular and spiritual enlightenment). It sees our emerging global culture as dialectical on interconnected levels: the tension between scientific (yang) analysis and non-rational (yin) hopes and dreams; the source of this tension in the bicameral human brain, in competing rural and urban ethical values, and in the master-servant relationship. Behind the screen-history of chaotic political violence, it revives a vision of cultural progress, in which the vertical imposition of political order from above is slowly supplanted by the emerging post-secular tolerance of cultural diversity, including both religion and science, from below.