One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English. Raymond Ruyer – who was a major influence on Simondon and Deleuze, among others – originally wrote this book, the first philosophical work on the concept of information written by a philosopher, in 1954. At once critical and analytical, it is a de...(展开全部)

One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English. Raymond Ruyer – who was a major influence on Simondon and Deleuze, among others – originally wrote this book, the first philosophical work on the concept of information written by a philosopher, in 1954. At once critical and analytical, it is a de...(展开全部)

Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects twenty of the influential but relatively inaccessible published articels that form the backbone of this research. It could not be more timely given the growing influence of evolutionary psychology. The pap...(展开全部)

《新科学家》New Scientist创建于1956年，是一家国际性科学周刊，在科学出版界具有世界性的声望，在全世界有超过500万忠实读者。 格雷厄姆·劳顿，《新科学家》杂志执行主编，毕业于英国帝国理工学院，获得生物化学学士学位和科学传播硕士学位，在科学写作方面获得过许多奖项。 珍妮弗·丹尼尔，《纽约时报》著名插画设计师，Google创意总监。

The Economics of Uncertainty and Information may be used in conjunction with Loffont's Fundamentals of Economics in an advanced course in microeconomics. Both texts provide a thorough account of modern thinking on the subject and a wealth of carefully chosen examples and problems.The first four chapters of The Economics of Uncertainty and Information summarize the essential too...(展开全部)

Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics , catapulted him into the public spotlight, as did his chilling visions of the future and his ardent social activism. Based on a wea...(展开全部)

No theme has been more central to international philosophical debates than that of community: from American communitarianism to Habermas's ethic of communication to the French deconstruction of community in the work of Derrida and Nancy. Nevertheless, in none of these cases has the concept been examined from the perspective of community's original etymological meaning: "cum mun...(展开全部)

What is this mysterious activity we call entrepreneurship? Does success require special traits and skills or just luck? Can large companies follow their example? What role does venture capital play? In a field dominated by anecdote and folklore, this landmark study integrates more than ten years of intensive research and modern theories of business and economics. The result is ...(展开全部)

Computers are ubiquitous yet to many they remain objects of irreducible mystery. This text looks at the question of how today's computers can perform such a variety of tasks if computing is just glorified arithmetic. The author illustrates how the answer lies in the fact that computers are essentially engines of logic and that their hardware and software embody concepts develop...(展开全部)

耶尔多·杨·德伦特（Jelto Jan Drenth 1946-）荷兰著名性学家。接受各种性学领域的培训，1994年注册为荷兰性学协会的性学医生。现为荷兰《性学余志》大学副刊编辑委员会委员；荷兰《性学杂志》编辑委员会委员兼顾问。曾任荷兰性学协会主席，第十届世界性学大会秘书等。《作为问题的性》、系列录像节目《你的情欲和你的生活》的主要作者：参与编写《医生专用性学》和《性学教科书》；2002年出版的专著《世界的渊源——女人性器官的真相与神话》，迄今已被译为多种语言。