Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond. With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry...(展开全部)

【美】乔尔·贝斯特(Joel Best) 美国特拉华大学社会学教授。著有畅销书《该死的谎言与统计》等作品。

Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond. With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry...(展开全部)

【美】乔尔·贝斯特(Joel Best) 美国特拉华大学社会学教授。著有畅销书《该死的谎言与统计》等作品。

A literary event--a major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime. From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Ph...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·索特 (James Salter，1925—2015)，美国小说家、短篇小说作家。成长于纽约曼哈顿，毕业于西点军校，做过战斗机飞行员。1957年出版长篇小说《猎手》，后全职从事写作。 主要作品有长篇小说《一场游戏一次消遣》（1967）、《光年》（1975 ）、《 独面》（1979）、《这一切》（2013），短篇小说集《暮色》（1988）、《昨夜》（2005），回忆录《燃烧的日子》（1997）等。曾获得福克纳奖（1989）、迈克尔•雷短篇小说奖（2010）、《巴黎评论》哈达达奖（2011）、马拉默德小说奖（2012）等。 . 译者简介： 刘伟，毕业于北京大学中文系，自由译者、撰稿人。

Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the evidence , the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection. Even Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, while extolling the beauty of evolution ...(展开全部)

Presents the many threads of modern work in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy that demonstrate the indelible stamp of the evolutionary processes first proposed by Darwin.

杰里·A.科因（Jerry A. Coyne） 曾于哈佛大学随理查德·莱旺庭（Richard Lewontin）和斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德（Stephen Jay Gould）学习，过去二十年中一直任芝加哥大学生态与演化学系教授，从事演化遗传学的研究。科因教授是世界顶尖的演化生物学家之一，也是演化界最重要的公共知识分子之一，为《新共和》、《泰晤士报文学增刊》、美国国家公共电台的固定撰稿人。

Presents the many threads of modern work in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy that demonstrate the indelible stamp of the evolutionary processes first proposed by Darwin.