The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Parisian scientists, with the support of the king, dissected hundreds of animals from the royal menageries and the streets of Paris. Guerrini is the first to tell the story of Joseph-Guichard Duverney, who performed violent, riot-inducing dissections of both animal and human bodies before the king at Versailles and in front of hundreds of spectators at the King's Garden in Paris. At the Paris Academy of Sciences, meanwhile, Claude Perrault, with the help of Duverney's dissections, edited two folios in the 1670s filled with lavish illustrations by court artists of exotic royal animals.Through the stories of Duverney and Perrault, as well as those of Marin Cureau de la Chambre, Jean Pecquet, and Louis Gayant, The Courtiers' Anatomists explores the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal, as well as the origins of the natural history museum and the relationship between science and other cultural activities, including art, music, and literature.

The Nature of Selection is a straightforward, self-contained introduction to philosophical and biological problems in evolutionary theory. It presents a powerful analysis of the evolutionary concepts of natural selection, fitness, and adaptation and clarifies controversial issues concerning altruism, group selection, and the idea that organisms are survival machines built for the good of the genes that inhabit them."e;Sober's is the answering philosophical voice, the voice of a first-rate philosopher and a knowledgeable student of contemporary evolutionary theory. His book merits broad attention among both communities. It should also inspire others to continue the conversation."e;-Philip Kitcher, Nature"e;Elliott Sober has made extraordinarily important contributions to our understanding of biological problems in evolutionary biology and causality. The Nature of Selection is a major contribution to understanding epistemological problems in evolutionary theory. I predict that it will have a long lasting place in the literature."e;-Richard C. Lewontin

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is equipped to deal with credit problems on the scale of the Great Depression. As foreclosures quintupled, it became clear that the mortgage system of the 1920s was not up to the task, and borrowers, lenders, and real estate professionals sought action at the federal level.Well Worth Saving tells the story of the disastrous housing market during the Great Depression and the extent to which an immensely popular New Deal relief program, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), was able to stem foreclosures by buying distressed mortgages from lenders and refinancing them. Drawing on historical records and modern statistical tools, Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden investigate important unanswered questions to provide an unparalleled view of the mortgage loan industry throughout the 1920s and early '30s. Combining this with the stories of those involved, the book offers a clear understanding of the HOLC within the context of the housing market in which it operated, including an examination of how the incentives and behaviors at play throughout the crisis influenced the effectiveness of policy.?More than eighty years after the start of the Great Depression, when politicians have called for similar programs to quell the current mortgage crisis, this accessible account of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation holds invaluable lessons for our own time.

This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur and Felix the Cat. Before Mickey, the first and only in-depth history of animation from 1898-1928, includes accounts of mechanical ingenuity, marketing and art. Crafton is equally adept at explaining techniques of sketching and camera work, evoking characteristic styles of such pioneering animators as Winsor McCay and Ladislas Starevitch, placing work in its social and economic context, and unraveling the aesthetic impact of specific cartoons."e;Before Mickey's scholarship is quite lively and its de*ions are evocative and often funny. The history of animation coexisted with that of live-action film but has never been given as much attention."e;-Tim Hunter, New York Times

In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements-the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences-are studied by schoolchildren across the world. When, in 2009, the New Scientist carried out a poll for the "e;Most Inspirational Female Scientist of All Time,"e; the result was a foregone conclusion: Marie Curie trounced her closest runner-up, Rosalind Franklin, winning double the number of Franklin's votes. She is a role model to women embarking on a career in science, the pride of two nations-Poland and France-and, not least of all, a European Union brand for excellence in science.Making Marie Curie explores what went into the creation of this icon of science. It is not a traditional biography, or one that attempts to uncover the "e;real"e; Marie Curie. Rather, Eva Hemmungs Wirtn, by tracing a career that spans two centuries and a world war, provides an innovative and historically grounded account of how modern science emerges in tandem with celebrity culture under the influence of intellectual property in a dawning age of information. She explores the emergence of the Curie persona, the information culture of the period that shaped its development, and the strategies Curie used to manage and exploit her intellectual property. How did one create and maintain for oneself the persona of scientist at the beginning of the twentieth centuryWhat special conditions bore upon scientific women, and on married women in particularHow was French identity claimed, established, and subvertedHow, and with what consequences, was a scientific reputation secured?In its exploration of these questions and many more, Making Marie Curie provides a composite picture not only of the making of Marie Curie, but the making of modern science itself.

William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly varied number of fields: platinum metallurgy, the existence of ultraviolet radiation, the chemical elements palladium and rhodium, the amino acid cystine, and the physiology of binocular vision, among others. Along with his colleagues Humphry Davy and Thomas Young, he was widely recognized during his life as one of Britain's leading scientific practitioners in the first part of the nineteenth century, and thedeaths of all three within a six-month span, between 1828 and 1829, were seen by many as the end of a glorious period of British scientific supremacy. Unlike Davy and Young, however, Wollaston was not the subject of a contemporary biography, and his many impressive achievements have fallen into obscurity as a result.Pure Intelligence is the first book-length study of Wollaston, his science, and the environment in which he thrived. Drawing on previously-unstudied laboratory records as well as historical reconstructions of chemical experiments and discoveries, and written in a highly accessible style, Pure Intelligence will help to reinstate Wollaston in the history of science, and the pantheon of its great innovators.

In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit's Jews played in the city's well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked toward Detroit to understand twentieth-century urban transformations, Metropolitan Jews tells the story of Jews leaving the city while retaining a deep connection to it. Berman argues convincingly that though most Jews moved to the suburbs, urban abandonment, disinvestment, and an embrace of conservatism did not invariably accompany their moves. Instead, the Jewish postwar migration was marked by an enduring commitment to a newly fashioned urbanism with a vision of self, community, and society that persisted well beyond city limits.Complex and subtle, Metropolitan Jews pushes urban scholarship beyond the tenacious black/white, urban/suburban dichotomy. It demands a more nuanced understanding of the process and politics of suburbanization and will reframe how we think about the American urban experiment and modern Jewish history.

Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these five words changed over the course of the sixteenth century and what their changes indicate about broader forces in science, politics, and other disciplines.?Greene discusses a broad swath of Renaissance and transatlantic literature-including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Cames, and Milton-in terms of the development of these words rather than works, careers, or histories. He creates a method for describing and understanding the semantic changes that occur, extending his argument to other words that operate in the same manner. Aiming to shift the conversation around Renaissance literature from current approaches to riskier enterprises, Greene also challenges semantic-historicist scholars, proposing a method that takes advantage of digital resources like full-text databases but still depends on the interpreter to fashion ideas out of ordinary language. Five Words is an innovative and accessible book that points the field of literary studies in an exciting new direction.

民法典的颁布是我国民事立法史上一件具有里程碑意义的大事，它回应了中国的现实需要和时代需要，是建设中国特色社会主义法治国家的一项重要举措，不仅对司法实践和法学教学研究领域有重要影响和意义，对社会经济民生的发展也将产生重大影响。本套书约请的作者均为中国法学会组织起草民法典草案各分编召集人、我国著名的几位代表性民法学家，他们以独著和合著的形式对民法典总则及各分编进行权威、详细的解释。本书是对合同编典型合同分编的逐条释义，包括本条主旨、核心概念、条文详解等内容。

发展功能化石墨烯材料，研究其结构及物理化学性质，探索其在不同领域的应用，对推动石墨烯材料的实用化具有重要意义，是目前和未来石墨烯领域的重要研究方向。本书旨在对功能化石墨烯相关研究领域行较为系统的分析和归纳整理，以期对石墨烯功能化领域的研究展行较为系统的梳理。

《敦煌石窟丝路图像研究》围绕“敦煌石窟丝路图像”主题，通过“以图证史”，挖掘敦煌壁画中的丝路图像，阐释各图像的丝路文化属性，是理解敦煌作为“华戎所交一都会”“丝路咽喉所在”“世界四大文明交汇地”的直学术研究成果，是说明敦煌在丝绸之路文化交流地位的代表性研究，是服务国家“一带一路”倡议的重要基础性研究成果。 该成果集中梳理了敦煌石窟壁画中遗存下来的反映丝绸之路历史文化交流的图像，具体包括法华经变和观音经变中的商人遇盗图，各类壁画中出现的绢帛图像，具有丝路胡风的经变画乐舞胡旋舞图像，维摩诘经变、涅槃经变、劳度叉斗圣变、五台山图中出现的朝鲜半岛人物形象，维摩诘经变各国王子礼佛图中的罽宾人形象，各类绘画中出现的丝路外道女性形象，丝路象征图像“张骞出使西域图”，作为丝路传法僧人形象特征的胡僧来华图像，具有“胡风塔葬”因素的弥勒经变老人墓图中的墓塔及墓塔上的雉堞形象，具有波斯萨珊风格特征的联珠翼马纹样，并就敦煌石窟与丝路互动下的文化自信问题从历史深度手作了独特的阐释，等等。 通过对这些包含丝路历史文化图像和问题的专题研究，分别阐释了这些考古一手资料在记录和反映丝路交通贸易、丝路物质交流、丝路胡人华、丝路文化传播、丝路艺术互动等方面的重要意义，反过来又可以为认识敦煌与丝绸之路的密切关系提供宝贵的资料支撑。

本书根据作者所在课题组近年来在石墨烯材料环境应用方面的研究成果,结合国内外新的科研展编写而成。从石墨烯及其衍生物的结构和性能出发,介绍了石墨烯材料在水处理、土壤治理、气体探测和空气净化等领域的应用,对石墨烯基环境材料的发展趋势及应用行了展望。本书尽可能使用较为通俗易懂的语言行讲述,以达到深浅出的效果。本书既有基础理论的介绍,也有专业应用技术的总结。本书不仅可作为材料与纳米科技等专业研究人员的参考书,也适用于对石墨烯材料感兴趣的非专业读者。

《阿里斯托芬喜剧集》收录罗念生译本《阿卡奈人》《骑士》《云》《马蜂》《地母节妇女》《蛙》，杨宪益译本《鸟》，与周作人译本《财神》。阿里斯托芬所处的时代是雅典政治危机和经济危机日益加深的时代，当时的社会矛盾是复杂且尖锐的，因此阿里斯托芬擅长以荒诞、夸张的情节批判现实中的内战、腐败、危机、堕落，同时也表现出对英雄时代和传统精神的追惜。他的喜剧节奏鲜明，笑料丰富，处处滑稽，文字平易，而抒情诗的部分又风格雅致，不乏机智，因此广受读者欢迎。

上世纪70年代初，马王堆汉墓发掘。一二三号墓中均出土了大量遣策简。遣策即是记录下葬物品的清单。本稿围绕马王堆汉墓出土遣策，集合以往诸家隶定，加以精按，并提出某些新的解析和观。约计300页，30万字。本稿为四色彩印，有精美遣策配图。

本书分为18章，内容涵盖高危新生儿的识别与处理、新生儿窒息与复苏、新生儿呼吸支持、新生儿营养支持、新生儿水电解质及酸碱平衡紊乱、新生儿疼痛管理、新生儿黄疸管理、新生儿重症感染和医院感染、呼吸系统疾病、消化系统疾病、循环系统疾病、血液系统疾病、泌尿系统疾病、神经系统疾病、内分泌系统和遗传代谢疾病、新生儿其他危重症、高危儿的随访、危重新生儿的转运。其中疾病章节又针对诊断要、治疗原则和措施、护理和监护要、疗效和预后评估、诊疗关键和难予以描述。

    丝绸之路是中国与西方世界相互了解的*早的窗口之一。在古代，丝路连接了东亚、中亚、印度、西亚、地中海等世界几大文明圈，增进了东方和西方两大文明之间的相互了解和相互交往，因此对推动世界文明进程和人类社会进步有很大的意义。而今天，随着我国西部开发的步伐的加快，我们对丝绸之路的研究和取得的成果也将为这条古老的陆上商业贸易通道增添新的生机与活力。     本书完整而详实地记录了大唐西市丝绸之路考察团五次组团对沿线14个国家的考察活动，以图文并茂的方式向读者展现了今天的丝路风貌与人文地理。

　　《山海无界：东方遇到西方》以《山海经》原文内容为母题，由奈目·鹏飞山海经工作室牵头策划，委托知名撰稿人执笔创作，对《山海经》内容行深解读，由书中的珍禽异兽、上古神人、奇花异草演绎出情致动人的故事，再配以画家贺鹏飞先生的精美油画作品，令西方绘画与东方故事交织碰撞，构思奇幻新颖，情节引人胜，深挖掘山海经文化，向读者展示不一样的“山海经”世界，具有很强的可读性和观赏性。本书是奈目·鹏飞山海经工作室策划推出的*部关于《山海经》文化的大型图书。

神奇的造物术横空出世，人类迎来了一个前所未闻的新纪元，一支魂笔，一管点睛，落笔于诞生纸，投诸于孕生水——一个全新的生命纸人就此诞生。掌握造物术的那部分人成为了高高在上的神，没有特殊技能的纸人则沦为社会的*底层，整个社会由此形成了等级森严的生命秩序。 十六岁少年简墨，一个处于金字塔底端的纸人，和专断的养父生活在单调乏味的六街。直到一场谋杀从天而降，简墨平静的生活被打破，他进入到传授造物术的神奇学校，结识了一群身份各异的生死伙伴。与此同时，他发现自己身上隐藏着巨大的秘密和使命。一场能力与信念、自由与尊严的较量正在悄然展开…… 翻开本书，走进全新的幻想纪元，见证天生异能的神奇物种和不甘命运的誓死反抗！

《广韵》是中古时期重要的韵书之一，反映了中古时期的语音系统。周祖谟先生以他丰厚的文献学和音韵学素养，加以校勘，极便学界使用，是经典的《广韵》整理成果之一。这次我们以中华书局2011年版为底本，影印保留《广韵校本》及《广韵校勘记》手写原貌。《广韵四声韵字今音表》本次改为电脑录排，便于观览。另收《广韵略说》《我和广韵》《影印鉅宋广韵前言》《广韵跋尾二种》《宋代汴洛音与广韵》等五篇相关研究、序跋类文章。新编了针对《广韵校本》字头的《音序索引》和《笔画索引》，附于上册之后，供读者查检。 ?

西明寺是位于唐代首都长安城延康坊的皇家寺院，是唐代强盛之时的众寺之首，也即所谓“国家大寺”，不仅是僧团日常活动的载体，还集译经的场所、著述的所在、外国僧人的留学重地、皇家礼仪活动乃至市民文化活动的场所等功能于一身，是一个不断吸引周边宗教与世俗精英的知识朝圣的中心，其辐射范围笼罩了整个周边地区与国家。玄奘、不空、道宣、慧琳等佛教精英，都曾活跃于此。 《西明东夏：唐代长安西明寺与丝绸之路》以长安西明寺为切入点，从“帕米尔高原—敦煌—长安”、“西明寺—杭州—日本”、“南海—广州—长安”三条线路，对该寺在长安佛教乃至中国佛教发挥的作用进行了梳理，清晰呈现了陆路和海上丝绸之路上的长安文明。其中神圣与世俗、超世离尘与财富金钱、政治与宗教、精神与物质、中土与异域、东方与西方完美地交融，折射出中古时期王权与教权间的微妙关系及神圣同世俗间的互动，可使读者深入了解通过丝绸之路而来的佛教文化对中华文明的影响，理解中华文化鼎盛时期海纳百川、容摄万有的博大胸襟。 本书分“研究编”与“史料编”两编，深入的研究与翔实的史料互为表里，相辅相成。

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