Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social o...(展开全部)

哈钦斯(E．Hutchins) 哈钦斯曾是约翰(D．John)和凯瑟琳(T．Catherine)麦克阿瑟基金会(MacA rthur Foundation Fellow)的创建者，现为加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校(University of CaIifornia，San DiegO)认知科学系(Department of Cognitive Science)教授。其代表作有Culture and infrence：A Trobriand Case Study(1980)，Cognilion in the Wild (1995)。他是认知科学中分布式认知研究纲领的主要提出者和推动者。

十九世纪英国自然文学大师理查德·杰弗里斯，拥有最纯粹的自然的心灵，血管里流淌着着橡树、榆树和白蜡树的树液，以及自然界飞禽走兽的血液。杰弗里斯一生创作有小说散文十余部，他笔下的乡村是他精神的领地，灵魂的净土，他的全部生命都在于体验和描述自然，他的成就对后世的自然文学创作影响深远。

十九世纪英国自然文学大师理查德·杰弗里斯，拥有最纯粹的自然的心灵，血管里流淌着着橡树、榆树和白蜡树的树液，以及自然界飞禽走兽的血液。杰弗里斯一生创作有小说散文十余部，他笔下的乡村是他精神的领地，灵魂的净土，他的全部生命都在于体验和描述自然，他的成就对后世的自然文学创作影响深远。

With an Introduction by Henry Williamson. 'Marvellous pictures of country sights in England. A volume to be read and re-read, and each time we think with a keener interest. Unsurpassed in power of observation and sympathy with natural objects by anything that has appeared since the days of Gilbert White' Daily News

The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. While one brother tries to sort out the after-effects of a friend's suicide and the birth of a retarded son, the other embarks on a quixotic mission to incite an uprising among the local youth. Oe's description of this brother's mes...(展开全部)

The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. While one brother tries to sort out the after-effects of a friend's suicide and the birth of a retarded son, the other embarks on a quixotic mission to incite an uprising among the local youth. Oe's description of this brother's mes...(展开全部)

An important contribution to the understanding of George Orwell's thought, particularly to Nineteen Eighty Four. The author challenges the view of the novel as a flawed work of crushing pessimism, arguing convincingly that it is a great humanist's mature vision of his deeply troubled times.

Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia, watching a peregrine falcon perform acrobatic stunts at 200 miles per hour, or engaging in a tense face-off with a mountain lion near a desert waterhole, Craig Childs captures the moment so vividly that he puts the reader in his b...(展开全部)

THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES tells of Craig Childs' own chilling experiences among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coast of British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America, jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, mountain lions, elk, Bighorn Sheep, and others. More than chilling, however, these stories are lyrical, enchanting, and reach beyond what one commo...(展开全部)