Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests ...(展开全部)

作者：（美国）利亚娜·霍利迪·维利（Liane Holliday Willey） 译者：朱宏璐 利亚娜·霍利迪·维利（Liane Holliday Willey），1959年出生，美国作家、教育家、演说家、孤独症咨询师、心理语育学博士。和她的小女儿一样，她本人也在1999年被确认为患有阿斯伯格综合征，凭借其教育背景和个人经历，她著书、演讲、开办网站，为孤独症人群和相关人士提供帮助，在业内具有一定影响力。

Compelling and witty, Liane Holliday Willey's account of growing to adulthood as an undiagnosed 'Aspie' has been read by thousands of people on and off the autism spectrum since it was first published in 1999. Bringing her story up to date, including her diagnosis as an adult, and reflecting on the changes in attitude over 15 years, this expanded edition will continue to entert...(展开全部)

Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests ...(展开全部)

" Stewart writes with such compelling clarity that general readers can share in the intellectual daring of his perspective." — Booklist An invitation to a hidden world In Life’ s Other Secret, mathematician and award-winning science writer Ian Stewart reveals the way mathematics describes the origin, structure, and evolution of life. Featuring a sumptuous gallery of color illus...(展开全部)

" Stewart writes with such compelling clarity that general readers can share in the intellectual daring of his perspective." — Booklist An invitation to a hidden world In Life’ s Other Secret, mathematician and award-winning science writer Ian Stewart reveals the way mathematics describes the origin, structure, and evolution of life. Featuring a sumptuous gallery of color illus...(展开全部)

The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point the sudden appearance of biology as a science in the nineteenth century and examines the conditions determining its particular makeup. Canguilhem analyzes the radically new way in which health and disease were defined in the earl...(展开全部)

The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point the sudden appearance of biology as a science in the nineteenth century and examines the conditions determining its particular makeup. Canguilhem analyzes the radically new way in which health and disease were defined in the earl...(展开全部)

乔治·康吉莱姆（1904—1995），法国思想家，曾就读于法国巴黎高等师范学院和斯特拉斯堡大学，获医学博士学位，，先后任教于多所中学和斯特拉斯堡大学、索邦大学。其主要研究领域是科学史和科学哲学（认识论）。主要著作有《正常与病态》、《生命的知识》、《17—18世纪反射观念 的形成》、《从发展到19世纪的进化》、《科学史和科学哲学研究》、《生命科学史中的意识形态和理性》、《健康：普通概念，哲学问题》。康吉莱姆是法国当代思想的开创者之一，其思想和研究方法对阿尔都塞、福柯、德勒兹等人产生了重大影响。 李春，文学博士，暨南大学翻译学院教师。主要研究领域为中国现代文学、中国翻译史和翻译理论、已出版译著《空间与政治》、《策兰与海德格尔：一场悬而未决的对话（1951—1970）》。

A rare analytical look at the financial crisis using simple analysis The economic crisis that began in 2008 revealed the numerous problems in our financial system, from the way mortgage loans were produced to the way Wall Street banks leveraged themselves. Curiously enough, however, most of the reasons for the banking collapse are very similar to the reasons that Long-Term Cap...(展开全部)