Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.

Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.

Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that the Psalms are poems, intended to be sung, not doctrinal treatises or sermons. Proceeding with his characteristic grace, he guides readers through both the form and the meaning of these beloved passages in the Bible.

Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that the Psalms are poems, intended to be sung, not doctrinal treatises or sermons. Proceeding with his characteristic grace, he guides readers through both the form and the meaning of these beloved passages in the Bible.

拉斯基（Harold Joseph Laski，1893-1950），政治学家，英国工党领导人之一，西方“民主社会主义”重要理论家。拉斯基一生著述三十多部，此外尚有大量的小册子、论文、演讲稿等，内容涉及社会科学许多领域，鼓吹民主社会主义，主张“一步推动，一点一滴改良”的费边主义，反对无产阶级专政。拉斯基在欧美思想界有着重大的影响，被誉为与罗素、林赛并列的英国三大思想领袖之一。 朱曾汶，我国著名翻译家，共计为商务印书馆翻译了包括“汉译世界学术名著丛书”在内的14本专著。