In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that: alienates us from life in the name of human domination; causes students to worry about how to make a living before they know who they ...(展开全部)

Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes "do not shout commands at us . . . at the very most, they whisper suggestions." He argues that human nature is not so much the result of genetic coding; rather, it is heavily influenced by cultural conditioning and environmental factors. With personal an...(展开全部)

埃力克（1932— ），美国生物学家、生态学家、人口统计学家、教育家。1957年获堪萨斯大学博士学位，现为斯坦福大学生物科学系人口学教授、保护生物学中心主任。1968年因《人口炸弹》一书、提出人口增长与有限资源的告诫而成名。他是美国科学院院士、美国艺术与科学院院士，2012年当选伦敦皇家学会会员。获约翰·缪尔奖、克拉夫奖（生态学的“诺贝尔奖”）、世界生态学奖、蓝色星球奖、杰出生态学家奖等众多奖项。有《蝴蝶与星球》、《生物学与社会》、《种族炸弹》、《地球》、《新世界，新思维》、《对科学和理性的背叛》及《钢索上的人类》等三十余部著作。尽管他的预言饱受争议，他仍然坚信人口过多对人类生存和地球环境构成直接威胁。

Ashford and LeCroyAs groundbreaking book offers students a balanced, integrated introduction to HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT. Lively and comprehensive, this book succeeds by helping students connect foundation knowledge with practice concerns. Study tables and concept maps (for each discussion of behavior in the development chapters) clarify major phases of biopsych...(展开全部)

作者 罗杰·彭罗斯（ROGER PENROSE）是牛津大学劳斯鲍尔荣誉数学教授。 艾伯纳·西蒙尼（Abner Shimony）是波士顿大学哲学和物理学荣誉教授。 南希·卡特莱特（Nancy Cartwright）是伦敦政治经济学院哲学、逻辑与科学方法教授。 史蒂芬·霍金 （Stephen Hawking）是剑桥大学卢卡斯数学教授。 编者 马尔科姆·朗盖尔（Malcolm Longair）是剑桥大学杰克逊自然哲学教授。 译者 阳曦，自由撰稿人、译者，毕业于北京航空航天大学宇航学院，曾从事航天研发工作。目前专注科普及幻想文学创作和翻译，《环球科学》、果壳网等知名媒体及新媒体长期合作译者，曾荣获“全国优秀科普作品”奖及全球华语科幻星云奖“最佳翻译小说”银奖，已出版译作《赶往火星》《元素的盛宴》《从一到无穷大》等。

Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were proposed in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this book, he summarises and updates his current thinking in ...(展开全部)

Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were proposed in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this book, he summarises and updates his current thinking in ...(展开全部)