Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the...(展开全部)

Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the...(展开全部)

关于作者 诺姆•乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky，1928－），美国著名学者和政治活动家，学术领域里的领袖人物，政治活动中的旗手。在学术领域里，他兴趣众多，涉猎广泛，著述丰厚，成就卓越，语言学、哲学、心理学和逻辑学等，均有其不灭的足迹；他的影响还遍及人工智能、认知科学、数学、音乐理论等方面。在政治活动中，他以“自由意志的社会主义”为基石，以博大的人道主义情怀，关心民众的疾苦和国家的命运，是欧美20世纪著名的“公共知识分子”。他反对越南战争，抨击霸权主义行径，批判美国内政和外交，多次被捕。他不仅被美国前总统尼克松列入“仇敌录”，还被恐怖分子列入“黑名单”。2011年，他因其“经久不衰的勇气、对强权的批判分析和对人权的促进”荣获悉尼和平奖。 本书淋漓尽致地展示了作为“现代语言学之父”和“我们时代的英雄”的乔姆斯基的政治理念和人格魅力。 关于译者 季广...(展开全部)

According to "The New York Times," Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight intact, delivered in clear, acc...(展开全部)

With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold over half a million copies, "How the World Works" is a collection of speeches and interviews with Chomsky by David Barsamian, edit...(展开全部)

Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson "Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," said Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's latest novel, Frankissstein, which perfectly describes too th...(展开全部)

The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined with rapid genome mapping of present human populations, has come remarkable insights into our past. This important new data has clarified and added to our knowledge from archaeology and anthropology, helped resolve long-existing controv...(展开全部)

大卫·赖克 ● 古人类DNA领域的世界级领跑者。哈佛医学院遗传学系教授、霍华德·休斯医学研究所研究员。 ● 2015年，因为率先通过大规模测序和分析远古人类的基因组数据来揭示人类历史，被《自然》杂志评为“年度十大人物”之一。 ●荣获百万美元的“丹·大卫奖”、美国科学促进 会的“纽科姆·克利夫兰奖”、美国国家科学院的“分子生物学奖”等多项殊荣。 译者简介 叶凯雄 佐治亚大学遗传学系助理教授，研究方向为营养基因组学和人类进化生物学。之前参与审校了《我们为什么会生病》。 胡正飞 资深译者。译作有《动物武器》《哪些科学观点必须去死》等。

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows readers to discover...(展开全部)

The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined with rapid genome mapping of present human populations, has come remarkable insights into our past. This important new data has clarified and added to our knowledge from archaeology and anthropology, helped resolve long-existing controv...(展开全部)