Friends Sam and Dave set to with a spade each and a dog for company. They are on a mission and they don’t intend to stop until they find something spectacular. When digging straight down reveals nothing, they dig sideways, in different directions – still nothing. At least, that’s what they think. When the boys take a nap, the dog starts digging. And something spectacular happen...(展开全部)

Dave was an extraordinary artist, poet, and potter living in South Carolina in the 1800s. He combined his superb artistry with deeply observant poetry, carved onto his pots, transcending the limitations he faced as a slave. In this inspiring and lyrical portrayal, National Book Award nominee Laban Carrick Hill's elegantly simple text and award-winning artist Bryan Collier's res...(展开全部)

Friends Sam and Dave set to with a spade each and a dog for company. They are on a mission and they don’t intend to stop until they find something spectacular. When digging straight down reveals nothing, they dig sideways, in different directions – still nothing. At least, that’s what they think. When the boys take a nap, the dog starts digging. And something spectacular happen...(展开全部)

Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find ... nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all.

Dave was an extraordinary artist, poet, and potter living in South Carolina in the 1800s. He combined his superb artistry with deeply observant poetry, carved onto his pots, transcending the limitations he faced as a slave. In this inspiring and lyrical portrayal, National Book Award nominee Laban Carrick Hill's elegantly simple text and award-winning artist Bryan Collier's res...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·欧文·韦瑟罗尔（James Owen Weatherall） 美国加州大学尔湾分校逻辑与科学哲学系主任，逻辑与科学哲学教授，数学行为科学研究所研究员，科学哲学协会期刊《科学哲学》副主编。曾在斯坦福大学、匹兹堡大学、澳大利亚国立大学、剑桥大学、伦敦政治经济学院等高校担任客座研究员。主要研究涉及经典场论和量子场论的数学与概念基础、一般科学哲学，尤其对构建金融模型、范畴论、原子物理、量子控制、量子力学等有浓厚兴趣。著有《对冲之王：华尔街量化投资传奇》（The Physics of Wall Street）、《虚空：关于虚无的奇异物理学》（Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing）等。 凯林·奥康纳（Cailin O’Connor） 美国加州大学尔湾分校逻辑与科学哲学系教授，生物学和行为科学哲学家，进化博弈理论家。曾任...(展开全部)

Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. It...(展开全部)

Once we came out of the jungle and found time to think of something besides food, sex, and shelter, we confronted the fundamental questions: what are we? who are we? Is a person a body or a soul? How do we access the external world if we are nothing but brains encased in bodies? As neuroscientists map the most detailed aspects of the human brain and its interplay with the rest ...(展开全部)

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of...(展开全部)

The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. Cited more often than any other single...(展开全部)