Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks

作者：  Alessandro Vespignani　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012年1月

简介：　　The availability of large data sets has allowed researchers touncover complex properties such as large scale fluctuations andheterogeneities in many networks, leading to the breakdown ofstandard theoretical frameworks and models. Until recently thesesystems were considered as haphazard sets of points andconnections. Recent advances have generated a vigorous researcheffort in understanding the effect of complex connectivity patternson dynamical phenomena. This book presents a comprehensive accountof these effects. A vast number of systems, from the brain toecosystems, power grids and the internet, can be represented aslarge complex networks. This book will interest graduate studentsand researchers in many disciplines, from physics and statisticalmechanics, to mathematical biology and information science. Itsmodular approach allows readers to readily access the sections ofmost interest to them, and complicated maths is avoided so the textcan be easily followed by non-experts in the subject.

Reactive Systems

作者：  Adobe eBook　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012年1月

简介：　　Formal methods is the term used to describe the specificationand verification of software and software systems usingmathematical logic. Various methodologies have been developed andincorporated into software tools. An important subclass isdistributed systems. There are many books that look at particularmethodologies for such systems, e.g. CSP, process algebra. Thisbook offers a more balanced introduction for graduate students thatdescribes the various approaches, their strengths and weaknesses,and when they are best used. Milner's CCS and its operationalsemantics are introduced, together with notions of behaviouralequivalence based on bisimulation techniques and with variants ofHennessy-Milner modal logics. Later in the book, the presentedtheories are extended to take timing issues into account. The bookhas arisen from various courses taught in Iceland and Denmark andis designed to give students a broad introduction to the area, withexercises throughout.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture

作者：  by Robert Shaughnessy　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012年1月

简介：　　This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms thatShakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of fourcenturies, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace tothe age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance,music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prosefiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare ispopularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queriesthe factors that determine the definitions of and boundariesbetween the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and theauthorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous andthe inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays andpoems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have beeninterpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed intoother media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers,performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.

Kant on the Human Standpoint

作者：  Béatrice Longuenesse　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012年1月

简介：　　In this collection of essays Béatrice Longuenesse considersthe three aspects of Kant's philosophy, his epistemology andmetaphysics of nature, his moral philosophy and his aesthetictheory, under one unifying standpoint: Kant's conception of ourcapacity to form judgements. She argues that the elements whichmake up our cognitive access to the world - what Kant calls the'human point of view' - have an equally important role to play inour moral evaluations and our aesthetic judgements. Her discussionranges over Kant's account of our representations of space andtime, his conception of the logical forms of judgements, sufficientreason, causality, community, God, freedom, morality, and beauty innature and art. Her book will appeal to all who are interested inKant and his thought.

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

作者：  Richard Maxwell　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012年1月

简介：The novel of the Romantic period has attracted many more readersand students in recent years. This Companion offers an overview ofBritish fiction written between the mid-1760s and the early 1830sand is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and culturalcontexts, and later critical reception.

Matters of Opinion

作者：  本社　编

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012年1月

简介：When a government announces that it will 'listen to thepublic',we are reminded that public opinion, and not justvoting,underpins democracy. Matters olc Opinion offers aninterestinginsight into 'public opinion' as reported in the media,askingwhere these opinions actually come from, and how they havetheireffects. Drawing on the analysis of conversations fromfocusgroups, phone-ins, and broadcast interviews with membersof'thepublic, Greg Myers argues that we must go back totheseencounters, asking questions such as what members of'thepublicthought they were being asked, whom they were talking as,andwhom they were talking to. He suggests that people don't carryastore of opinions, ready to tell strangers; they use opinionsinorder to get along with other people, and how they say things isasimportant as what they say. Engaging and informative, thisbookilluminates debates on research methods, the public sphere,anddeliberative democracy, on broadcast talk, and on what it meantoparticipate in public life.

Utilitarianism

作者：  Bernard Williams　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012年1月

简介：　　Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points ofview, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part ofthe book Professor Smart advocates a modern and sophisticatedversion of classical utilitarianism; he tries to formulate aconsistent and persuasive elaboration of the doctrine that therightness and wrongness of actions is determined solely by theirconsequences, and in particular their consequences for the sumtotal of human happiness. This is a revised version of ProfessorSmart's famous essay 'an outline of a system of utilitarianethics', first published in 1961 but long unobtainable. In Part IIBernard Williams offers a sustained and vigorous critique ofutilitarian assumptions, arguments and ideals. He finds inadequatethe theory of action implied by utilitarianism, and he argues thatutilitarianism fails to engage at a serious level with the realproblems of moral and political philosophy, and fails to make senseof notions such as integrity, or even human happiness itself. Bothauthors are agreed on utilitarianism's importance: it cuts across anumber of different philosophical disputes and combines asystematic account of mata-ethical problems with a distinctive andsubstantive moral stand. It thus is, or involves, philosophy inboth the traditional and the narrower, professional sense of theword, and is a key topic (often the first topic) in introductoryphilosophy courses. This book should also be of interest to welfareeconomists, political scientists and decision-theorists.

The Spirit of Mourning

作者：  Mobipocket eBook　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012年1月

简介：　　How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide andtorture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, PaulConnerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at therole of mourning in the production of histories and the reticenceof silence across many different cultures. In particular he looksat how memory is conveyed in gesture, bodily posture, speech andthe senses – and how bodily memory, in turn, becomes manifested incultural objects such as tattoos, letters, buildings and publicspaces. It is argued that memory is more cultural and collectivethan it is individual. This book will appeal to researchers andstudents in anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology,social psychology and philosophy.

The Monetary Theory of Production

作者：  Augusto Graziani　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012年1月

简介：　　In mainstream economic theory money functions as an instrumentfor the circulation of commodities or for keeping a stock of liquidwealth. In neither case is it considered fundamental to theproduction of goods or the distribution of income. Augusto Grazianichallenges traditional theories of monetary production, arguingthat a modern economy based on credit cannot be understood withouta focus on the administration of credit flows. He argues thatmarket asset configuration depends not upon consumer preferencesand available technologies but on how money and credit are managed.A strong exponent of the circulation theory of monetary production,Graziani presents an original and perhaps controversial argumentthat will stimulate debate on the topic.