Aliens: Past, Present, Future covers the subject of extraterrestrial life from every angle, from the earliest speculations more than 400 years ago to today's ongoing search for Earth 2.0. In between are lessons learned about how life originated on our own planet, as well as the story behind the vast cult that has grown up around "flying saucers" and strange visitors from other ...(展开全部)

侯活士 侯活士（Hauerwas，1940－）是当代基督教伦理学中，最具活力和睿见的伦理神学家。现任杜克神学院任吉尔伯特神学伦理学讲座讲授，并任杜克大学法学院教授。他早年于耶鲁大学取得博士学位，2001年主讲过著名的吉福德讲座，并被爱丁堡大学授予荣誉神学博士学位。 他的写作涉猎非常广泛，思想汲取了不少托马斯‧阿奎那，克尔凯郭尔，卡尔‧巴特，维特根斯坦，约翰‧犹达，以及麦金泰尔的创见。并曾受教于耶鲁学派，依循耶鲁学派的脚踪，大力倡导圣经叙事乃是基督徒认信的语法的观点，并在其著作中强调教会群体对基督徒生命的重要性，虽然被人批评为宗派主义，但也于2001年被《时代》杂志称誉为“美国最好的神学家”。 他的《和平的国度》一书，是第一流的伦理学专著，清楚展示出伦理思想和实践当有的样貌，同时勾画出基督徒生命的本质。他使用“叙事”这概念连结伦理学的众多主题，为基督徒...(展开全部)

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commen...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House , returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld. John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, l...(展开全部)

探索最伟大的问题——地球之外是否有生命？——背后迷人的前沿科学。 几千年来，我们一直在仰望星空，思索我们在宇宙中是否孤独。在过去的几年中，科学家们在回答这个问题上取得了巨大的进展。在《外星人来了！》这本书中，喜剧演员和科普畅销书作家本·米勒带领我们进行了一次奇妙的发现之旅——从地球上生命的起源到最近对外星智慧生命的搜寻。 我们很快就会明白，对外星人的追踪实际上也是我们对生命本质的探索。需要什么来启动生命？宇宙大爆炸产生的大量能量是如何变成青蛙、树木和工程造价师的？进化论如何提供关于外星生命的线索？它将会是什么样的？（很遗憾，也许不是绿色的或者性感的。） 随着我们的探测器和载人航天任务进入太阳系冒险，我们的望远镜对类地行星的成像越来越精确，我们对外星生命的搜寻从未像现在这样激动人心——或得到更多经费资助。《外星人来了！》是一本全面、易懂、极富娱乐性的指...(展开全部)

Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.” Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-dri...(展开全部)

Former NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos examines the scientific possibility of the fantastical world of "Star Wars," She explains to non-technical readers how the course of science might soon intersect with such fantasies as interstellar travel, robots capable of thought and emotion, habitable alien planets, bizarre intelligent life forms, high-tech weapons and spacecraft, an...(展开全部)