New York Times Bestseller: Brilliant but nave country doctor David Newcome courts tragedy when he invites a stranger into his home.In the English factory town of Calderbury, few figures are as respect

Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality—a grand poetic vision of nature—and how we find our place within it. In the beginning there was light. But more than this, there w...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich wit...(展开全部)

◎ 作者介绍 诺姆 • 乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky，1928— ），著名语言学家、思想家，被誉为“现代语言学之父”。1928年出生于美国费城的犹太家庭，就学于宾夕法尼亚大学和哈佛大学，获得语言学博士学位后，长期任教于麻省理工学院。乔姆斯基的学术研究以语言学为起点，之后延伸到多个领域，如哲学、认知科学、计算机科学、心理学、社会学等。 乔姆斯基的著作有一百五十余种，受到广泛阅读，是20世纪中后期以来被引用次数最多的人文学者之一。代表性著作有《句法结构》（Syntactic Structures）、《语言学理论的逻辑结构》（The Logical Structure of Language Theory)、《论自然与语言》（On Nature and Language），以及《世界如何运转》《恐怖主义文化》《宣传与公共意识》《新自由主义与全球秩序》...(展开全部)

凯伦•乔伊•富勒（Karen Joy Fowler） 美国著名小说家。迄今为止，已出版七部长篇小说和五部短篇小说集。曾凭借作品《黑色玻璃》和《我所没看到的》分获1998年和2010年的世界奇幻奖。她的知名长篇小说《简•奥斯汀书友会》在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上停留了数十周，并被搬上银幕。 《我们都发狂了》是富勒的全新力作，这部酝酿已久的作品问世后不负众望，不仅成为全球畅销书，而且荣获福克纳文学奖、英国国家图书奖，并入围布克奖、星云奖等多个重量级文学大奖。

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half...(展开全部)