Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914? Was it because Germany posed a threat to British national security? Today many prominent historians would argue that this was not the case and that a million British citizens died needlessly for a misguided cause. This book counters such revisionist arguments. Matthew Seligmann disputes the suggestion that th...(展开全部)

Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue - the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material - thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sphere of thought and existence. Arguing that slime is a ...(展开全部)

美国加州大学欧文分校科学与经济学院逻辑与哲学科学系杰出教授，斯坦福大学哲学系教授。美国国家科学院院士，美国艺术与科学院院士。曾任美国哲学学会、科学哲学学会会长。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

An Expert Guide to Software Performance Optimization From mobile and cloud apps to video games to driverless vehicle control, more and more software is time-constrained: It must deliver reliable results seamlessly, consistently, and virtually instantaneously. If it doesn’t, customers are unhappy–and sometimes lives are put at risk. When complex software underperforms or fails, ...(展开全部)