Ancient astronauts? Atlantis? Psychic archaeology? Pharaoh's curses? Committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity, this indispensable supplementary text uses interesting archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly know things about the past through science. Examples of fantastic findings support the carefully, logically, and entertaining...(展开全部)

Ancient astronauts? Atlantis? Psychic archaeology? Committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity, this indispensable supplementary text uses interesting archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly know things about the past through science.

Ancient astronauts? Atlantis? Psychic archaeology? Pharaoh's curses? Committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity, this indispensable supplementary text uses interesting archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly know things about the past through science. Examples of fantastic findings support the carefully, logically, and entertaining...(展开全部)

作者简介 肯尼思·L·费德 1982年毕业于美国康涅狄格大学人类学系，获博士学位。现任中央康涅狄格州立大学学人类学系教授。主要研究方向为史前考古学，曾出版教材与专著多部。 译者简介 陈淳 1992年毕业于加拿大麦基尔(McGill)大学人类学系，获博士学位。现为复旦大学文物与博物馆学系教授、博士生导师。主要研究方向为史前考古学。曾出版专著、译著多部。

Conjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase ‘medieval medicine’ sounds horrific to those of us with modern ideas on hygiene, instant pain relief and effective treatments. In those days no one could allay the dread of plague or the many other horrible diseases we have now forgotten. However, the mediev...(展开全部)

罗纳德·纳伯斯（Ronald Numbers），美国科学史学家，生于1942年。纳伯斯是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校科学史与医学史的希尔代尔荣休教授，也是科学史学会和科学史和科学哲学国际联合会前主席，2008年获得科学史学会颁发的“乔治·萨顿奖”。曾担任科学史学术期刊《伊西斯》（Isis）的编辑（1989—1993），并且是八卷本《剑桥科学史》（Cambridge History of Science）的作者之一。他的研究领域主要是科学与宗教的关系。他撰写、编辑了三十多本书，其中包括《达尔文在美国》（Darwinism Comes to America，1998）、《神创论者：从科学创造论到智慧设计论》（The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design，2006）、《教堂...(展开全部)

Popular culture fills the mind with a steady diet of fantasy, from tales of UFO landings and alien abductions, haunted houses, and communication with the dead to claims of miraculous cures by spiritual healers and breakthrough treatments in 'alternative' medicine. The paranormal - and the pseudoscience that attempts to validate it - is so ubiquitous that many people lose sight ...(展开全部)

“Goodbye, beliefs in sex differences disguised as evolutionary facts. Welcome the dragon slayer: Cordelia Fine wittily but meticulously lays bare the irrational arguments that we use to justify gender politics.”―Uta Frith, emeritus professor of cognitive development, University College London Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging forc...(展开全部)

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is “only a theory,” and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of...(展开全部)

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is “only a theory,” and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of...(展开全部)