Games are everywhere: Drivers manoeuvring in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm negotiating next year's wage is playing a bargaining game. The opposing candidates in an election are playing a political game. The supermarket's price for corn flakes is decided by playing an economic game. Game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way. Even when the players have not thought everything out in advance, game theory often works for the same reason that mindless animals sometimes end up behaving very cleverly: evolutionary forces eliminate irrational play because it is unfit. Game theory has seen spectacular successes in evolutionary biology and economics, and is beginning to revolutionize other disciplines from psychology to political science. This Very Short Introduction introduces the fascinating world of game theory, showing how it can be understood without mathematical equations, and revealing that everything from how to play poker optimally to the sex ratio among bees can be understood by anyone willing to think seriously about the problem.

Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy.

动物有权利吗？人类对动物负有义务吗？动物的精神生活是什么样的？我们应如何理解它们的福利？这些是当代关于动物权利争论的核心问题，它们所涉及的不仅仅是哲学思考，还包括人们日常生活中的行为。本书从历史和现实的角度，结合各社会组织和个人对待动物的方式，对这些问题进行了深入探讨，呼吁人们对动物权利问题给予关注并进行反思。

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all else, an empire of force - employing a mixture of violence, suppression, order, and tactical use of power to develop an astonishingly uniform culture. This Very Short Introduction covers the history of the Empire from Augustus (the first Emperor) to Marcus Aurelius, describing how the empire was formed, how it was run, its religions and its social structure. It examines how local cultures were "romanised" and how people in far away lands came to believe in the emperor as a god. The book also examines how the Roman Empire has been considered and depicted in more recent times, from the writings of Edward Gibbon, to the differing attitudes of the Victorians and recent Hollywood blockbuster films.

'When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect ...' So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Die Verwandlung or Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka is one of the most intriguing writers of the twentieth century; adjective 'kafkaesque' evokes his bizarre world in which characters grapple with faceless bureaucracy, find themselves turned into insects, or starve themselves to death in the name of art. This Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson provides the newcomer with an up-to-date and accessible examination of this fascinating author: beginning with an examination of Kafka's life, he then goes on to discuss some of the major themes that emerge in Kafka's work, using his short story Metamorphosis as a recurring example.

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《董桥七十》编序 胡洪侠 董桥先生忽然七十岁了。他年近花甲时，我起念要编一套《董桥散文类编》为他贺寿。他答应了，我也编好了，谁知流年不利，出版社换了又换，合同签了又签，封面插图也都编配得差不多了，有一天北京的出版社一个电话打过来说不出就不出了。对此事我一直耿耿于怀，觉得既对不起董先生，也对不起当年闻讯后翘首以待新书的读者。好在董先生身体康健得很，花甲之后，古稀又来。我于是故伎重施，遂有《董桥七十》。 选“董桥七十”为书名，其含义有二：其一，这是为贺董先生七十岁编选的一本集子；其二，书中共选董先生文章七十篇。为什么不是八十篇或一百五十篇？其实也没多少道理好讲，或者说道理很简单：因为七十，所以七十。 自一九七七年香港版《双城杂笔》始，董先生迄今出版文集三十三种（只计初版本，不含各类各地重印本、选编本等等），共收文章一千八百篇。本书的七十篇即从这一千八百篇中选出。二十五、六篇中选一篇，是既难又苦的差事：难在常常犹豫不定，苦在往往忍痛割爱。我只好给自己订了几条规矩：因为是纪念版，所以选文要兼顾三十三种初版书，以见董先生文章风格的演变轨迹；因为是贺古稀之寿，所以只选董先生念事忆人、述己怀旧的文字，以方便读者读其文而见其人；因为董先生前十来种集子流传颇广，所以选文重点放在了近几年的新书上，有些“详今略古”的意思。 董先生写父执、写师友、写同辈的文字最合我编选此书的旨趣，因为“他传往往是自传”。我因此想把《董桥七十》编成一本略有“七十自述”格局的新书。董先生曾对我口传“总编辑秘诀”：一不要怕和别人不一样，二不要怕挨骂，三不要怕道歉。编他的这本新书，“三不要秘诀”也同样用得上：我自信《董桥七十》是个全新的董文选本，和任何一种选本都不一样，即使和我编的那本《旧时月色》相比在选目上也大为不同；如有择选不当之处，我乐于挨骂；果然挨骂而又有机会，我一定在修订版中道歉。 二〇一一年十一月十二日，深圳

Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands.