Introductory econometrics : using Monte Carlo simulation with Microsoft Excel /

作者：  Humberto Barreto, Frank M. Howland.

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简介：This highly accessible and innovative text and accompanying CD-ROM use Excel (R) workbooks powered by Visual Basic macros to teach the core concepts of econometrics without advanced mathematics. It enables students to run Monte Carlo simulations in order to understand the data generating process and sampling distribution. Intelligent repetition of concrete examples effectively conveys the properties of the ordinary least squares (OLS) estimator and the nature of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation. Coverage includes omitted variables, binary response models, basic time series, and simultaneous equations. The authors teach students how to construct their own real-world data sets drawn from the internet, which they can analyze with Excel (R) or with other econometric software. The Excel add-ins allow students to draw histograms, to compute P-values and robust standard errors, and to construct their own MonteCarlo and bootstrap simulations. For more readers may visit the web site at www.wabash.edu/econometrics.

Paradox of political philosophy:Socrates’ philosophic trial

作者：  (美)郝岚(Jacob Howland)著;戚仁译

出版社：华夏出版社,2012

简介：本书以高中新课标教材为蓝本，以适应新一轮课程改革和考试改革的需要进行编写的讲练结合的教辅图书。以学生的学习为主导，以教与学两个主体间互动为灵魂，以提升学生综合能力为目标，从“讲解—训练—方法”这一完整的学习过程入手，构建中学生同步学习的探究型学案式优秀学习方略，使丛书成为学生同步学习的研学课堂。

哲学的奥德赛-《王制》引论

作者：  郝兰（Jacob Howland） 著

出版社：华夏出版社 2016年4月

简介：本书作者郝兰（Jacob Howland）拿《王制》与《奥德赛》对观，他精确地把握住《王制》作为一个整体的灵魂意象，深入处理了这场“哲人的自我发现之旅”与《奥德赛》之间的意象关联。我们可以将这本《<王制>：哲学的奥德赛》视为一个双重导读。首先自然是《王制》导读。全书实际上分为两个部分，第一部分五章，是这个导读的导读。郝岚为了便于现代读者进入柏拉图的希腊哲学世界，不但简单勾勒基本的希腊观念，而且要回应各种现代哲学对柏拉图的批评意见，同时，他还必须论证自己以《奥德赛》阅读《王制》的正当理由。此后，则是作者根据细节的精读而在总体上勾勒《王制》的梗概——可以说，在这个意义上，本书后半部分是一篇相当称职的《王制》导论。而对郝兰本人来说，这本书或许也是一次导读，因为他在自己未来的学术生涯里，《王制》和柏拉图的著作一直是他精心耕耘的重点。

Study in philosophy and faith:Kierkegaard and Socrates

作者：  (美)郝岚(Jacob Howland)著;罗晓颖，张文涛译

出版社：华夏出版社,2014

简介：    本书研究基尔克果托名著作中哲学与信仰的关系，乃第一部对苏格拉底在《哲学片段》中的地位进行考察的著作，阐释了苏格拉底对基尔克果的整体影响。作者认为，在基尔克果笔下，哲学与信仰是紧密相连的两种激情。哲学爱欲打开了信仰之门。同时，信仰的力量将自我与超越自我之物、有限与无限、时间之中的个体生命与永恒凝聚于一，从根本上来讲，这一信仰的力量即是苏格拉底含义上的爱欲。     本书写得明晰而动人，可帮助读者更好地理解基尔克果的信仰，也可为柏拉图学者开辟一条进入基尔克果研究的门径。对于那些愿详究基尔克果最重要的文本之一的人，以及对柏拉图对话中的苏格拉底感兴趣的学者，或者任何关切哲学与信仰之关系的人，本书必然提供格外的玄机。

Still Alice 依然爱丽丝 Julianne Moore 领衔主演 荣获第87届奥斯卡“女演员奖” 当当网5星级英文学习产品

作者：  Lisa

出版社：Simon & Schuster 2014年12月

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From Publishers WeeklyNeuroscientist and debut novelist Genova mines years of experience in her field to craft a realistic portrait of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland has a career not unlike Genova's—she's an esteemed psychology professor at Harvard, living a comfortable life in Cambridge with her husband, John, arguing about the usual (making quality time together, their daughter's move to L.A.) when the first symptoms of Alzheimer's begin to emerge. First, Alice can't find her Blackberry, then she becomes hopelessly disoriented in her own town. Alice is shocked to be diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's (she had suspected a brain tumor or menopause), after which her life begins steadily to unravel. She loses track of rooms in her home, resigns from Harvard and eventually cannot recognize her own children. The brutal facts of Alzheimer's are heartbreaking, and it's impossible not to feel for Alice and her loved ones, but Genova's prose style is clumsy and her dialogue heavy-handed. This novel will appeal to those dealing with the disease and may prove helpful, but beyond the heartbreaking record of illness there's little here to remember.(Jan.)

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简介：The mystery is how a 19th-century Dane devoted to promoting Christian faith felt himself to be the soul-mate of a pagan Athenian who lived and died for philosophy a long time ago. Howland (philosophy, U. of Tulsa) explores the relationship between philosophy and faith in the thought of Johannes Climacus, a pseudonym for Danish philosopher S酶ren Kierkegaard (1813-55), primarily as set out in the slender Philosophical Fragments. Annotation 漏2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：　　When Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, she was flying the longest leg of her around-the-world flight and was only days away from completing her journey. Her plane was never found, and for more than sixty years rumors have persisted about what happened to her. Now, with the recent discovery of long-lost radio messages from Earhart's final flight, we can say with confidence that she ran out of gas just short of her destination of Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean. From the beginning of her flight, a series of tragic circumstances all but doomed her and her navigator, Fred Noonan. Authors Elgen M. and Marie K. Long spent more than twenty-five years researching the mystery surrounding Earhart's final flight before finally determining what happened. They traveled over one hundred thousand miles to interview more than one hundred people who knew some part of the Earhart story. They draw on authoritative sources to take us inside the cockpit of the Electra plane that Earhart flew and recreate the final flight itself. Because Elgen Long began his own flying career not long after Earhart's disappearance, he can describe the equipment and conditions of the time with a vivid first-hand accuracy. As a result, this book brings to life the primitive conditions under which Earhart flew, in an era before radar, with unreliable communications, grass landing strips, and poorly mapped islands. Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved does more than just answer the question, What happened to Amelia Earhart? It reminds us how daring early aviators such as Earhart were as they risked their lives to push the technology of the day to its limits -- and beyond.　　

Still Alice 我想念我自己

作者：  Lisa Genova　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-1-1

简介：　　Alice Howland is a fifty-year-old cognitive psychologyprofessor at Harvard, and a world-renowned expert in linguistics,with grown children and a satisfying marriage, when she starts toexperience fleeting forgetfulness and disorientation. She initiallyattributes these episodes to normal aging or menopause. But as hersymptoms worsen, she sees a neurologist and is given the diagnosisthat will change her life forever: early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease.With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning andpurpose in her life as her sense of self is gradually strippedaway, leaving her unable to continue in her profession, take careof herself, recognize her loved ones or even understand that shehas a neurodegenerative disease. Without memory or hope, Alice isforced to live in the moment, which is in turns beautiful,terrifying, and maddening. Genova uses the successful, articulateand independent Alice as the perfect vehicle to capture what itfeels like to literally lose your mind. This novel will touch andinspire you. You will admire Alice’s strength and resourcefulnessas much as cry over her losses. And it will bring new understandingfor all those affected by this terrible neurological disease.

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简介："Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph in the United States from 1890 to 1945. William Howland Kenney offers a full account of what he calls "the 78 r.p.m. era" - from the formative early decades in which the giants of the record industry reigned supreme in the absence of radio, to the postwar proliferation of independent labels, disk jockeys, and changes in popular taste and opinion. By examining the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the phonograph's rise and fall as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound, he addresses such vital issues as the place of multiculturalism in the phonograph's history, the roles of women as record-player listeners and performers, the belated commercial legitimacy of rhythm-and-blues recordings, the "hit record" phenomenon in the wake of the Great Depression, the origins of the rock-and-roll revolution, and the shifting place of popular recorded music in America's personal and cultural memories." "Students and scholars of American music, culture, commerce, and history - as well as fans and collectors interested in this phase of our nation's rich artistic past - will find a great deal of thorough research and fresh scholarship to enjoy in these pages."--BOOK JACKET.

Heart of a samurai

作者：  玛姬·佩鲁丝(Margi Preus)著;黄聿君译

出版社：天下远见出版股份有限公司,2011,2012重印)

简介：「你要幫助世界改變嗎？」 沒有人能決定我們成為什麼？只有自己才能決定。 這是一段跨越海洋、跨越文化、跨越自我， 改變命運、改變人生、改變世界的真實傳奇。 看一位不識字的漁村少年，如何成為影響日本歷史的偉大武士。 波蘭壯闊的海上冒險．激勵人心的真實故事 「你的夢想和希望是什麼？」「你希望你的人生怎麼過？希望自己變成誰？」 這是一場海上冒險，也是一場人生冒險，只有勇敢打破成見，追逐夢想的人，才能看見世界，改變未來。 一八四一年，一位14歲的日本少年萬次郎跟著4位漁夫出海，遇到暴風雨，被困在無人島上。當時的日本人認為外面的世界，到處充滿妖魔鬼怪和野蠻人，不但禁止外國船隻停靠，連漂流在外的日本人也不能回國，違者一律處死！ 有一天，一艘路過的美國捕鯨船救起萬次郎一行人。萬次郎的好奇心戰勝了對「野蠻人」的恐懼。他加入捕鯨的行列，憑著勇氣和智慧征服海中巨獸，贏得尊重信任。他努力充實自己，學習新文化、新知識。接下來十年間，他乘著捕鯨船，航行各大洋，造訪許多他從未聽過的地方。 這是充滿文化衝擊、充滿冒險、挑戰和尋找自我的旅程。雖然萬次郎明白漁夫永遠不可能成為武士，也明白回到日本只有死路一條，但是他依然堅持夢想，他要回到故鄉、他要成為一名改變世界的武士…… 書籍重點 時勢造英雄、英雄造時代 有些真實人生，比幻想故事更加曲折離奇，也因此，這樣的生命故事除了有波瀾萬丈的情節令人屏息之外，往往比寓言故事更具深遠的寓意；因為這些冒險與歷練、挫折與克服都真實的發生在歷史上某位“人物”的身上。《鯨武士》所描寫刻畫的，正是這樣一人物。他締造了許多日本第一，包括： 將「ＡＢＣ字母歌」傳進日本的人。 第一位繫上領帶的日本人。 第一位坐上火車、蒸汽船的日本人。 第一位使用現代補鯨技術的日本人。 第一位在美國掏金熱時代，採金礦的日本人。 翻譯『新美國航海術』的日本人。 這位走在時代尖端、成為日本與美國之間的國際交涉、日本吸收現代美國訊息的橋梁人物，似乎要是出身名門，或是有一定的學問背景；但是真實的歷史往往出人意料。《鯨武士》的主角名為「中濱萬次郎」，嚴格說來，出身寒微的他原來只有名字，連姓都沒有，因為是家中第二個男孩，所以叫做「萬次郎」。萬次郎出身的一八二七年是日本所謂的江戶時代，那個時期的日本實行鎖國政策，不准本國人和外國人接觸，也不允許外國船隻靠近日本。萬次郎的家鄉在現在日本四國島上的高知縣，當時是土佐籓的清水中濱，因為貧窮，他不像一般小孩可以到私塾受一點讀書寫字和算術的教育，而且必須從事勞動，來幫助家計。 故事發生在一八四一年，那年萬次郎十四歲，和其他四名夥伴一起乘著八公尺長的小漁船在近海捕魚，萬太郎是當中年紀最小的。出海三天後，他們遇到暴風雨，一行人連船漂流到離家鄉七百多公里遠的南太平洋上的孤島，開始了魯濱遜式將近半年的無人島生活。一天，美國的捕鯨船約翰豪藍號（John Howland）經過這個小島，將他們五人救起。 你能不能想像，一百七十年前這場異文化的初相遇是何種景象？語言不通、生活習慣與文化大不相同的人們，如何溝通彼此、如何表達自己與理解他人？這是故事中很精彩的部分。作者瑪姬?佩魯絲為了描寫萬次郎的故事，蒐集了許多第一手的歷史資料，但是更重要的是她有活潑又不失真實的想像力，讓事件的搬演歷歷在目，人物之間的對話栩栩如生。這也正是小說比條列式的歷史記載有趣的地方。我們除了發生的事件，還可以體驗當事者的心情，領受臨場刺激的氛圍。 話說當時十四歲的萬次郎雖然沒上過學、目不識丁，但是他天生聰慧加上勤勉好學的性格，獲得約翰豪藍號船長惠特菲爾德（William H. Whitfield ）的青睞與信任，還根據船名幫他取個英文名字叫做約翰萬（John Mung, Mung 是萬次郎的「萬」的日文發音）。當時一些漂流到孤島被救出的船員，多半要有心裡準備，必須像奴隸一樣在船上做苦工，但是船長並沒有如此待萬次郎他們，還送他們到夏威夷下船，等待其他航線靠近日本的船隻，希望他們能早日回到家鄉。 然而，萬次郎並沒有跟著夥伴們下船，他選擇跟船長到美國，見識美國這個新天地。小說裡，作者描寫船長提出要萬次郎當養子，並帶他到美國的想法，但是最終還是將主控權交給萬次郎自己決定。一位十四、五歲的少年要離開夥伴，到完全未知的新天地，需要何等大的勇氣？「樂於冒險、富有探知未知的勇氣」，應該是萬次郎性格中，成就他不凡人生的重要關鍵吧！ 到了美國之後，船長安排萬次郎到學校上學，他勤勉、認真向學的態度，很快地讓他在課業成績上展露頭角。萬次郎不只學習英文、數學，還有測量、航海術和造船技術，可以說是日本第一位留學美國的留學生。這一段求學的歷程，當然不是三言兩語可以輕鬆帶過，在小說中，作者瑪姬．佩魯絲有詳細的鋪陳。就請讀者自己慢慢品味小說情節，看萬次郎如何克服自己的膽怯和他人的歧視，融入新環境，並將其轉化成自己的舞台。 然而，不管再怎麼成功，萬次郎終究還是「想家」的。學校畢業後，他搭上捕鯨船，航行大海希望有機會可以回到日本。這又是另一段曲折離奇的故事。最後，萬太郎決定自己買船，又巧遇美國西岸的掏金熱，他到金礦去尋找機會和夢想，終於湊足了錢買船回家。途中，還去了夏威夷接當年的夥伴上船，一九五一年回到日本沖繩時，萬次郎已經離家十年，二十四歲了。又費了千辛萬苦，隔年才回到土佐籓的故鄉。彷彿浦島太郎從龍宮回來般不可思議，萬次郎破格獲得武士的地位，並且被賜予平常老百姓沒有的姓氏「中濱」（取自家鄉地名）。這部小說的尾聲設定在萬次郎回鄉不久之後。 萬次郎回國兩年後的一八五三年，美國海軍的東印度艦隊來到鎖國政策下日本的浦賀灣，剛好是近代日本「開國」的前兆。會英文、懂美國習俗的中濱萬次郎，正好趕上開創時代的浪潮。雖然一切並非從此一帆風順，但是直到一八九八年七十一歲過世前，萬次郎都積極扮演著日本與美國間交流的重要角色。萬次郎的「武士之心」，其實比任何世襲的武士都來得純粹與堅韌。

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简介："Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalismand women's rights is often stymied by an 'all or nothing'approach: fundamentalists claim of absolute religious freedom, while some feminists dismiss religion entirely asbeing so imbued with patriarchy as to be eternally opposedto women's rights. This ignores, though, the experiences of religious women who suffer under fundamentalism and fight to resist it, perceiving themselves to be at once religious and feminist. In Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women, Howland provides a forum for these different scholars, both religious and nonreligious,to meet and seek common ground in their fight against fundamentalism. Through an examination of international human rights, national law, grass roots activism, and theology, this volume explores the acute problems that contemporary fundamentalist movements pose for women's equality and liberty rights." -- BOOK JACKET

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简介："This innovative study sees the relationship between Athens and Jerusalem through the lens of the Platonic dialogues and the Talmud. Howland argues that these texts are animated by comparable conceptions of the proper roles of inquiry and reasoned debate in religious life, and by a profound awareness of the limits of our understanding of things divine. Insightful readings of Plato's Apology, Euthyphro, and chapter three of tractate Ta驶anit explore the relationship of prophets and philosophers, fathers and sons, and gods and men (among other themes), bringing to light the tension between rational inquiry and faith that is essential to the speeches and deeds of both Socrates and the Talmudic sages. In reflecting on the pedagogy of these texts, Howland shows in detail how Talmudic aggadah and Platonic drama and narrative speak to different sorts of readers in seeking mimetically to convey the living ethos of rabbinic Judaism and Socratic philosophizing"--

版权页译者又题：邱欣怡编译

作者：  Richard D. Howland，Mary J. Mycek原著;邱欣怡译

出版社：合记图书出版社,2008

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【预订】Princess Says Goodnight

作者：  Howland

出版社：HarperCollins 2010年05月

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Still Alice 依然爱丽丝 Julianne Moore 领衔主演 荣获第87届奥斯卡“女演员奖” 当当网5星级英文学习产品

作者：  Lisa

出版社：Simon & Schuster 2014年12月

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From Publishers WeeklyNeuroscientist and debut novelist Genova mines years of experience in her field to craft a realistic portrait of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland has a career not unlike Genova's—she's an esteemed psychology professor at Harvard, living a comfortable life in Cambridge with her husband, John, arguing about the usual (making quality time together, their daughter's move to L.A.) when the first symptoms of Alzheimer's begin to emerge. First, Alice can't find her Blackberry, then she becomes hopelessly disoriented in her own town. Alice is shocked to be diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's (she had suspected a brain tumor or menopause), after which her life begins steadily to unravel. She loses track of rooms in her home, resigns from Harvard and eventually cannot recognize her own children. The brutal facts of Alzheimer's are heartbreaking, and it's impossible not to feel for Alice and her loved ones, but Genova's prose style is clumsy and her dialogue heavy-handed. This novel will appeal to those dealing with the disease and may prove helpful, but beyond the heartbreaking record of illness there's little here to remember.(Jan.)

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