How to relate scientific information in a way that entertains and enlightens? After twenty years as a marine biologist, a Ph.D. from Harvard, a tenured professorship at the University of New Hampshire, and more than twenty published research papers, why is Dr. Randy Olson telling readers, 'Don't Be Such a Scientist'? The hard-earned advice comes from a fifteen-year career trans...(展开全部)

Robert Wright (born January 15, 1957) is an American author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science (especially evolutionary psychology), history, politics, international relations, and religion. He has published five books: Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information (1988), The Moral Animal (1994), ...(展开全部)

As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan worldview-not grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nation-comparative literature has benefited from regular reexamination of its basic principles and practices. The American Comparative Literature Association 1993 report on the state of the discipline, prepared under the leader...(展开全部)

As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan worldview-not grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nation-comparative literature has benefited from regular reexamination of its basic principles and practices. The American Comparative Literature Association 1993 report on the state of the discipline, prepared under the leader...(展开全部)

With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, impolite" debate (San Francisco Chronicle). his first memoir offers a more personal view. His first book, The Selfish Gene, caused a seismic shift in the study of biology by proffering the gene-centered view of evolution. It wa...(展开全部)

理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins） 牛津大学教授，英国皇家科学院院士，有“达尔文的斗犬”之称的进化生物学家，“无神论四大骑士”之一，“第三种文化”推动者。 1941年出生于非洲肯尼亚，8岁时，随父母回到英国。1967年毕业于牛津大学，获动物学博士学位。1995年成为牛津大学历史上第一位“查尔斯·西蒙尼教授”，随后，创办“西蒙尼讲座”，聘请丹尼尔·丹尼特、史蒂芬·平克和贾雷德·戴蒙德等名师上课。在2013年《前景》杂志“最伟大思想家”评选中，名列第一。 今天仍活跃在文坛的最杰出“非虚构类”作家，创作了《自私的基因》《解析彩虹》《上帝的错觉》多部畅销作品。

Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs--but people do need help iand encouragemnt to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that re...(展开全部)

Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is different. College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provid...(展开全部)