出版社：Yale University Press 出版日期：7 Octubre 2008 语种：英语 页数：284 ISBN：978-0300143324 尺寸：21.4 x 14.2 x 2.4 cm 以上信息均为网络信息，仅供参考，具体以实物为准

Newly revised edition of Professor Crowe's accessible, enlightening book re-creates the change from an earth-centered to a sun-centered conception of the solar system. The work is organized around a hypothetical debate: Given the evidence available in 1615, which system (Ptolemaic, Copernican, Tychonic, etc.) was most deserving of support?

《汉字会说话》全书共收录52个汉字，分为山川风物、世道法理、人情世故、知识探索和娱乐休闲等5章。每篇讲解一个汉字，介绍汉字的源流、演变、相关成语、俗语和用法。全书采用现代简洁的设计与装帧。 该书用地道且不失幽默的英文讲述汉字相关的历史、趣闻和传说。正文之外，附加字形演变的展示，从甲骨文到楷书，体现汉字之美。另外，还有笔划书写分解示范和练习区域。除汉字学习之外，该书围绕相关话题，介绍传统文化和当代中国，引发思考与讨论。对于汉语学习者和对中国有兴趣的海外读者都有广泛的吸引力。 This book is a collection of 52 Chinese characters explained: The history and legends associated with the character offer readers intriguing perspectives of Chinese culture. Quotes and idioms formed by the character are insightful and fun to use in daily conversation. Furthermore, evolution of characters is ex

The Ancien R gime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 59) is an objective observer of both periods providing a merciless critique of the ancien r gime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.,