2017年10月外文上架新书（部分）

【作  者】Lee Soo-mi

【出版社】Seoul : National Museum of Korea (2016)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）

【索书号】J231(312) /L481 /E

【简  介】Text is in English. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of landscape paintings rendered by Asian artists. With four thematic and illustrated essays. "In East Asian art, there are two main themes for landscape painting: actual mountains and rivers known for their spectacular scenery, and idealized landscapes." (foreword) Both are shown here. The main part of this illustrated and heavily annotated catalogue presents 44 specific landscapes for visual and considered analysis. Much to see here. A rare catalogue, housed in its original cardboard shipping case.

 

 

 

【作  者】John Thomson

【出版社】TheClassics.us (September 12, 2013)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）

【索书号】K928.9 /T531 /E

【简  介】 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Chefoo is a favourite watering-place for foreigners resident at Peking or Shanghai, for there bracing air and sea-bathing may be enjoyed during the hottest months of summer. The beach on which the European hotel is built, skirts the foot of a low range of grassy hills, and reminded me, in its semicircular sweep and general aspect, of Brodic Bay in Arran, on the west coast of Scotland. I have a lively recollection of Chefoo Bay; of its stretch which at the time appeared interminable; and of the soft yielding sand over which, with a friend remarkable alike for his good-nature, weight and agility, I had to run from the steamer to forestall the other passengers and secure the best apartment for an invalid lady from Shanghai. The thermometer at the time was standing at about one hundred degrees in the shade, so that after completing our task we were in a condition to enjoy to the full the cool breeze that swept through the verandah of the hotel. It was an unpretending...

 

 

 

【作  者】C. Wright Mills

【出版社】Forgotten Books (July 25, 2012)

【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库

【索书号】D771.261 /M657w1 /E

【简  介】 I HE white-collar people slipped quietly into modern society. Whatever history they have had is a history without events; whatever common interests they have do not lead to unity; whatever future they have will not be of their own making. If they aspire at all it is to a middle course, at a time when no middle course is available, and hence to an illusory course in an imaginary society. I nternally, they are split, fragmented; externally, they are dependent on larger forces. Even if they gained the will to act, their actions, being unorganized, would be less a movement than a tangle of unconnected contests. As a group, they do not threaten anyone; as individuals, they do not practice an independent way of life. So before an adequate idea of them could be formed, they have been taken for granted as familiar actors of the urban mass. Yet it is to this white-collar world that one must look for much that is characteristic of twentieth-century existence. By their rise to numerical importance, the white-collar people have upset the nineteenth-century expectation that society would be divided between entrepreneurs and wage workers. By their mass way of life, they have transformed the tang and feel of the American experience. They carry, in a most revealing way, many of those psychological themes that characterize our epoch, and, in one way or another, every general theory of the main drift has had to take account of them.

 

 

【作  者】James, William

【出版社】Dover Publications (May 28, 1905)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东） 

【索书号】B712.44 /J29w5 /E

【简  介】This volume contains the complete texts of two books by America's most important psychologist and philosopher. Easy to understand, yet brilliant and penetrating, the books were written specifically for laymen and they are still stimulating reading for readers concerned with important questions of belief in an age of science.

In the essays, under the heading The Will to Believe, James discusses, first, the interrelationships of belief, will, and intellect, examining such questions as: How does man believe? How do intellectual considerations color belief? How much of a role do irrational elements play even in rigorously logical thought? Chance versus determinism, free will versus fate, pluralism versus monism are discussed in succeeding sections. James also covers psychical research, Hegelianism, and Spencer's philosophy.

Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine, reprinted here from the corrected second edition, examines the questions of survival after death, and provides an unusual philosophical rebuttal to the theory that thought and personality necessarily die with the brain.

 

 

【作  者】Le Cam, Lucien M. (Lucien Marie)

【出版社】Springer; 1986 edition (August 6, 1986)

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【索书号】O212 /L433a2 /E

【简  介】This book grew out of lectures delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, over many years. The subject is a part of asymptotics in statistics, organized around a few central ideas. The presentation proceeds from the general to the particular since this seemed the best way to emphasize the basic concepts. The reader is expected to have been exposed to statistical thinking and methodology, as expounded for instance in the book by H. Cramer [1946] or the more recent text by P. Bickel and K. Doksum [1977]. Another pos¬ sibility, closer to the present in spirit, is Ferguson [1967]. Otherwise the reader is expected to possess some mathematical maturity, but not really a great deal of detailed mathematical knowledge. Very few mathematical objects are used; their assumed properties are simple; the results are almost always immediate consequences of the definitions. Some objects, such as vector lattices, may not have been included in the standard background of a student of statistics. For these we have provided a summary of relevant facts in the Appendix. The basic structures in the whole affair are systems that Blackwell called "experiments" and "transitions" between them. An "experiment" is a mathe¬ matical abstraction intended to describe the basic features of an observational process if that process is contemplated in advance of its implementation. Typically, an experiment consists of a set E> of theories about what may happen in the observational process.

 

【作  者】Barbara Rydeny

【出版社】Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (November 24, 2016)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心阅览室 

【索书号】P159 /R992i /E(MIT)

【简  介】This second edition of Introduction to Cosmology is an exciting update of an award-winning textbook. It is aimed primarily at advanced undergraduate students in physics and astronomy, but is also useful as a supplementary text at higher levels. It explains modern cosmological concepts, such as dark energy, in the context of the Big Bang theory. Its clear, lucid writing style, with a wealth of useful everyday analogies, makes it exceptionally engaging. Emphasis is placed on the links between theoretical concepts of cosmology and the observable properties of the universe, building deeper physical insights in the reader. The second edition includes recent observational results, fuller descriptions of special and general relativity, expanded discussions of dark energy, and a new chapter on baryonic matter that makes up stars and galaxies. It is an ideal textbook for the era of precision cosmology in the accelerating universe. 

 

 

 

【作  者】 Phillip Strand , John Christensen , Andy Halper 

【出版社】Hyperion; 1 edition (May 1, 2006)

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【索书号】G471.2 /S192 /E

【简  介】It's two minutes to 8:00. Time to put on your tights and cape.

As an educator, every time that bell rings, you face dozens of challenges. Students with overwhelming personal and academic needs. Creativity-stifling mandates. Administrivia. Cynicism. Apathy. The things that keep you from being the educator you want to be.

The FISH! Philosophy -- four simple principles: Be There, Play, Make Their Day, and Choose Your Attitude -- has helped educators around the world build more effective, fulfilling relationships that lead to better learning. It is also backed by tons (OK, about a hundred pounds) of research on classroom management.

Schools of FISH! is full of inspiring and instructive stories about people just like you -- with hopes and challenges just like yours. It's about real-life heroes who give the best in themselves to help their students find the best in themselves.

Schools of FISH! offers practical ideas on classroom management. It addresses the issues you deal with every dayimproving learning, respect and personal accountability, self-discipline and internal motivation, and finding ways to make learning more fun. Because youre not just teaching students to learn . . . youre inspiring them to want to learn.

 

 

 

【编  者】Gail Dines , Jean M. Humez 

【出版社】SAGE Publications, Inc; 4 edition (February 19, 2014)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心阅览室

【索书号】G206.3-05 /G325(4) /E(MIT)

【简  介】This provocative new edition of Gender, Race, and Class in Media engages students with a comprehensive introduction to mass media studies. Editors Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez present new and classic readings that critically analyze some of the most pervasive and influential forms of media entertainment culture, including  advertising, reality tv  shows,  sitcoms and dramatic series, pornography, fan and celebrity gossip websites, videogames and online social media and virtual reality enterprises. Issues of power related to gender, race,  class and sexuality are integrated into a wide range of compelling articles examining the economic and cultural implications of mass media as institutions,  such as the political economy of media production, textual analysis, and media consumption, including current questions raised by fan participation in production and distribution.

 

【作  者】Susan M. Winchip 

【出版社】Fairchild Books; 3 edition (January 12, 2017)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）

【索书号】TU113 /W759(3) /E

【简  介】Fundamentals of Lighting, 3rd Edition, takes an integrated approach to the study of lighting and design. Topics include lighting system basics, lighting and the design process, human factors, sustainability, global issues, regulations, business practices, and the LEED building certification program.

Fundamentals of Lighting STUDIO-an online tool for more effective study! 

 

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【作  者】 James D. Rice

【出版社】Oneworld Publications (September 1, 2015)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）

【索书号】N917.12 /R496 /E

【简  介】James D. Rice’s fresh study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three-quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how the existence of this no man’s land influenced nearby Native American and, later, colonial settlements. Did it function as a commons, as a place where all were free to hunt and fish? Or was it perceived as a strange and hostile wilderness?

Rice discovers environmental factors at the center of the story. Making use of extensive archaeological and anthropological research, as well as the vast scholarship on farming practices in the colonial period, he traces the region’s history from its earliest known habitation. With exceptionally vivid prose, Rice makes clear the implications of unbridled economic development for the forests, streams, and wetlands of the Potomac River basin. With what effects, Rice asks, did humankind exploit and then alter the landscape and the quality of the river’s waters?

Equal parts environmental, Native American, and colonial history, Nature and History in the Potomac Country is a useful and innovative study of the Potomac River, its valley, and its people.