“Darwin Comes to Town casts a radical new light on the way we should think about evolution: that it is not always a slow, lumbering process measured in millions of years, but, in fact, something that can take place at relative light speed under certain circumstances. Say, when it must adapt to the ecological pressures put on its habitat (a planet) dominated by human action, and...(展开全部)

“Darwin Comes to Town casts a radical new light on the way we should think about evolution: that it is not always a slow, lumbering process measured in millions of years, but, in fact, something that can take place at relative light speed under certain circumstances. Say, when it must adapt to the ecological pressures put on its habitat (a planet) dominated by human action, and...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Granta's new How to Read series is based on a very simple, but novel, idea. Most beginners' guides to great thinkers and writers offer either potted biographies or condensed summaries of their major works. How to Read, by contrast, brings the reader face to face with the writing itself in the company of an expert guide. Its starting point is that in order to get close...(展开全部)

霍华德•丘达柯夫（Howard P. Chudacoff）是美国布朗大学历史系教授。他的研究领域为美国史和城市史，特别是儿童史，已先后出版多部美国史著作。 朱迪丝•史密斯（Judith E. Smith）是美国马萨诸塞大学波士顿校区美国研究的教授。她已出版了多部有关美国社会和文化的历史著作，并引发了广泛的讨论。 彼得•鲍德温（Peter C. Baldwin）是美国康涅狄格大学历史系教授，讲授美国城市史和1877年以来的美国史。目前他正通过马萨诸塞州一个教育家的日记，研究19世纪宗教史和性别史。

霍华德•丘达柯夫（Howard P. Chudacoff）是美国布朗大学历史系教授。他的研究领域为美国史和城市史，特别是儿童史，已先后出版多部美国史著作。 朱迪丝•史密斯（Judith E. Smith）是美国马萨诸塞大学波士顿校区美国研究的教授。她已出版了多部有关美国社会和文化的历史著作，并引发了广泛的讨论。 彼得•鲍德温（Peter C. Baldwin）是美国康涅狄格大学历史系教授，讲授美国城市史和1877年以来的美国史。目前他正通过马萨诸塞州一个教育家的日记，研究19世纪宗教史和性别史。

For undergraduate courses on Urban History, Urban Economics, Urban Sociology, Urban Planning, Social History, Urban Studies, and Urban Politics. A survey of the dynamics of American urbanization from the sixteenth century to the present tackling ethnic and racial minority issues, multiple perspectives on women, and highlights urbanization's constantly shifting nature. This text...(展开全部)

The surprising history of the scientific method—from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps—and the rise of psychology in the nineteenth century. The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant a kind of knowledge, made from facts gath...(展开全部)

As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, "Darwin Among the Machines" tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries--from Thomas Hobbes to John von Neumann--who foresaw the development of artificial intellige...(展开全部)

George Dyson grew up at the Institute for Advanced Study, where such scientists as his father, Freeman Dyson, and John von Neumann laid the foundations for the Information Age. From this vantage point, and with an unprecedented cast of characters, Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives, work and ideas of visionaries who foresaw the develo...(展开全部)

In this astonishing prediction of the World Wide Web's ultimate challenge to human civilization--a globally networked, electronic, sentient being--Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives, work, and ideas of visionaries who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and the global mind.