"I recommend the book to anyone interested in the past, present, and future of life on this planet" -Murray Gell-Mann, author of The Quark and the Jaguar "Simon Levin, easily one of the finest and most thoughtful contemporary ecologists, has written a fine and thoughtful book. Throughout, Levin portrays the broad history of the field he has participated in so well, and chara...(展开全部)

"I recommend the book to anyone interested in the past, present, and future of life on this planet" -Murray Gell-Mann, author of The Quark and the Jaguar "Simon Levin, easily one of the finest and most thoughtful contemporary ecologists, has written a fine and thoughtful book. Throughout, Levin portrays the broad history of the field he has participated in so well, and chara...(展开全部)

布莱恩·阿瑟 著名经济学家，研究经济正反馈机制的先驱。 在加州大学伯克利分校获得经济学硕士学位和运筹学博士学位，37岁就成为斯坦福大学*年轻的经济学教授。 1987年获得“古根海姆奖”，1990年获得“熊比特奖”。 1987年进入圣塔菲研究所，投身于跨学科的复杂性科学领域。1988年，主持圣塔菲的研究项目。他是圣塔菲的元老级人物，也是复杂性科学的奠基人。他因成绩突出而荣获首届“拉格朗日奖”。 对技术与科学、经济之间的关系，他见解独特，是一位技术思想家。 2014年，由湛庐文化引进出版其著作《技术的本质》（The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves）。

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。

This book provides a challenging and stimulating introduction to the contemporary topics of complexity and criticality, and explores their common basis. Criticality refers to the behaviour of extended systems at a phase transition where scale invariance prevails; the many constituent microscopic parts bringing about macroscopic phenomena that cannot be understood by considering...(展开全部)

The author of The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail now raises challenging questions about some of the major issues of our time--AIDS, drug abuse, and aging. With extraordinary perception, he discusses topics such as evolutionary biology, the development of language, the therapeutic aspects of medicine, and his love for his profession.

The author of The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail now raises challenging questions about some of the major issues of our time--AIDS, drug abuse, and aging. With extraordinary perception, he discusses topics such as evolutionary biology, the development of language, the therapeutic aspects of medicine, and his love for his profession.

In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison explores the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living - the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the land...(展开全部)

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and more-than-human forces, the seashore is also a space o...(展开全部)

Computability and complexity theory are two central areas of research in theoretical computer science. This book provides a systematic, technical development of "algorithmic randomness" and complexity for scientists from diverse fields.