In this sequel to The Scientist as Rebel (2006), Freeman Dyson—whom The Times of London calls “one of the world’s most original minds”—celebrates openness to unconventional ideas and “the spirit of joyful dreaming” in which he believes that science should be pursued. Throughout these essays, which range from the creation of the Royal Society in the seventeenth century to the sc...(展开全部)

The fourteen chapters of this book cover the central ideas and concepts of chaos and fractals as well as many related topics including: the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, cellular automata, L-systems, percolation and strange attractors. This new edition has been thoroughly revised throughout. The appendices of the original edition were taken out since more recent publications cove...(展开全部)

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies--the application of the social sciences and the humanities to law in the hope of making law less formalistic, more practical, better grounded empirically, bettered tailored to social goals. Judge Richard A. Posner has been a leader in this movement, a...(展开全部)

Book Description The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to everyone at an extremely affordable price. This text presents Freud's theory that man is unable to tolerate too much reality, and that dreams ar...(展开全部)

Robert Kagan gives us a picture of the world today in all its complexity and its simplicity. This is a world where America is dominant but cannot dominate, where the struggle for power and prestige goes on as it always has. Power is at the service of ideas, but the key ideas are also ideas about power: democracy and autocracy. All this in a hundred pages, with style, energy and...(展开全部)

Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict, and a new contest between weste...(展开全部)

罗伯特·卡根，美国布鲁金斯学会高级研究员，多次被《外交政策》杂志评为：“全球顶级百位思想家”。

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, long before medieval automata, and ce...(展开全部)

安妮拉．亞菲 Aniela Jaffé（1903-1991） 1903年出生於德國柏林猶太家庭，於漢堡大學（University of Hamburg）主修心理學，二戰時為逃避迫害移居瑞士，接受莉蓮．弗雷（Liliane Frey）的精神分析，而後被轉介給榮格，進行了長期的分析工作。 亞菲於1947至1955年擔任蘇黎世榮格學院秘書，為學院的早期規劃作出出色貢獻。1955至1961年擔任榮格私人秘書，是榮格晚年書信的整理者，也是廣為流傳的榮格回憶錄《記憶、夢和反思》（Memories, Dreams, Reflections）多數章節的執筆者。 亞菲亦是傑出的分析心理學者，極富創造力，精熟於榮格學說，在《人及其象徵》（Man and His Symbols）中寫了關於現代藝術的章節，也參與了榮格書信的德文、英文編輯工作。她的著作有《意義的神話》（...(展开全部)