Pochi libri ci obbligano a ripensare un intero periodo storico. Calibano e la strega è uno di questi. Ripercorrendo da un punto di vista femminista tre secoli di storia – dalle lotte contadine e dai movimenti eretici del Medioevo alla caccia alle streghe del XVI e XVII secolo in Europa e nel “Nuovo Mondo” –, il libro offre una nuova visione sintetica dei fattori che portarono a...(展开全部)

Pochi libri ci obbligano a ripensare un intero periodo storico. Calibano e la strega è uno di questi. Ripercorrendo da un punto di vista femminista tre secoli di storia – dalle lotte contadine e dai movimenti eretici del Medioevo alla caccia alle streghe del XVI e XVII secolo in Europa e nel “Nuovo Mondo” –, il libro offre una nuova visione sintetica dei fattori che portarono a...(展开全部)

【英】史蒂芬•米森（Steven Mithen） 英国雷丁大学考古学教授，2004年当选为英国国家人文和社会科学院院士，著有《思维的史前史：艺术，宗教和科学的认知起源》《思考中的觅食者》等书。

【英】史蒂芬•米森（Steven Mithen） 英国雷丁大学考古学教授，2004年当选为英国国家人文和社会科学院院士，著有《思维的史前史：艺术，宗教和科学的认知起源》《思考中的觅食者》等书。

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)