The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the sty...(展开全部)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the sty...(展开全部)

WHAT: The Ig Nobel Prize honours individuals whose achievements in science cannot or should not be reproduced. 10 prizes are given to people who have done remarkably bizarre things in science over the previous year. WHY: The 'Igs' are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative and shine a spotlight onto the weird corners of laboratories around the world. PAST WIN...(展开全部)

Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union is the culmination of Jonas Bendiksen’s fascinating seven-year photographic journey through unrecognized countries, enclaves, and isolated communi­ties. For decades, these outlying republics were held in orbit by the immense gravity of Moscow, the nucleus of the Soviet Empire. When the USSR dissolved, in 1991, ...(展开全部)

谢林（F. W. J. Schelling, 1775-1854），德国唯心主义哲学家，与康德、费希特、黑格尔并称德国古典哲学四大家。代表作品有《自我作为哲学的本原》《一种自然哲学的理念》《先验唯心论体系》《哲学与宗教》《论人类自由的本质及相关对象》《世界时代》《神话哲学》《启示哲学》等。 先刚，图宾根大学哲学博士，北京大学哲学系教授，博士生导师。主要研究领域：德国古典哲学、古希腊哲学、西方哲学史。

A new English translation of Schelling’s unfinished magnum opus, complete with a contextualizing introduction by the translator. A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling’s magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, S...(展开全部)

The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling. In 1810, after establishing a reputation as Europe’s most prolific philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling embarked on his most ambitious project, The Ages of the World. For over a decade he produced multiple drafts of the work before finally conceding its failure, a “failure” in which He...(展开全部)

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countri...(展开全部)

Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it’s hard to say. In The Weirdness of the World, Schwitzgebel argues that the answers to these funda...(展开全部)