In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloa...(展开全部)

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloa...(展开全部)

In an era of fast-paced technological progress and with the impact of humans on the environment increasing, the concept of “nature” itself seems called into question. Bio Art explores the work of “bio artists,” those who work with living organisms and life processes to address the possibilities and dangers posed by biotechnological advancement. A contextual introduction traces ...(展开全部)

Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript in their observations, from the main texts th...(展开全部)

段义孚，当代华裔地理学家，美国科学院和英国科学的双料院士。现为美国威斯康星-麦迪逊大学地理系的荣退教授，也是北京师范大学客座教授。他的人本主义地理学思想在西方地理学界，以及与西方关系密切的其他地方的地理学家，都产生了重大影响。他将人的种种主观情感与地理环境的丰富关系进行了极具智慧的阐发，吸引了众多学者的目光。自20世纪70年代以来，Yi－Fu Tuan（他的英文名字）一名，蜚声于世界人文地理论坛。

弥尔顿 艾瑞克森被称为现代催眠之父，他的贡献可与弗洛伊德比肩。是他把催眠术从一种控制他人的古老方法演变为现代化的心理疗法。学者们从质疑他的方法转向对他顶礼膜拜，称他为泰斗。本套书提供了绝好的机会，以直接地了解艾瑞克森这位伟大的天才是如何工作的。那些来访者经过艾瑞克森的催眠治疗发生了神奇的改变，看上去十分玄妙，而艾瑞克森是个实事求是的人，他向学习者详细讲解他的催眠工作的原理和方法，使他们了解催眠的科学性和可操作性。如今风靡全球的NLP教练技术也来源于对艾瑞克森行为模式的分析。

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation ca...(展开全部)

Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "social volcano" of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule? Many inside and outside of China have speculated, without evidence, that the answer is yes. In 2004, Harvard sociologist Martin King Whyte has undertaken the first systematic, nationwide survey of ordinary Chi...(展开全部)

Martin King Whyte is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

The most famous firsthand account of the Kingdom of Angkor was left by the imperial Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan. But Zhou's was not the only portrait of Angkor and the kingdoms that came before it. The Empire Looks South draws on other sources to provide new and engrossing perspectives on early Cambodia up to and including the time of Angkor. These sources include accounts in off...(展开全部)