Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter co...(展开全部)

fourteen critical essays.

[英]乔纳森·李尔，芝加哥大学社会思想委员会杰出教授、芝加哥大学哲学教授。主要研究领域为古代哲学、哲学心理学、克尔凯郭尔、人类精神生活中的哲学概念等。

This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animated by this desire in this world? What is it for a creature to have a nature; what is our human nature; what must the world be like t...(展开全部)

[英]乔纳森·李尔，芝加哥大学社会思想委员会杰出教授、芝加哥大学哲学教授。主要研究领域为古代哲学、哲学心理学、克尔凯郭尔、人类精神生活中的哲学概念等。

This textbook is an accessible introduction to the theory underlying the many fascinating properties of solids. Assuming only an elementary knowledge of quantum mechanics, it describes the methods by which one can perform calculations and make predictions of some of the many complex phenomena that occur in solids and quantum liquids. The emphasis is on reaching important result...(展开全部)

This textbook is an accessible introduction to the theory underlying the many fascinating properties of solids. Assuming only an elementary knowledge of quantum mechanics, it describes the methods by which one can perform calculations and make predictions of some of the many complex phenomena that occur in solids and quantum liquids. The emphasis is on reaching important result...(展开全部)

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art. At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe....(展开全部)

Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth’s past dead ends, and in the process, offers us a glimpse of our possible future. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the twenty-first century have analogs in these five e...(展开全部)

作者介紹 彼得‧博恩藍　Peter Brannen 科學記者。作品涵蓋古生物、古氣候、海洋生物，到科學哲學。作品見於《連線》、《紐約時報》、《萬古》雜誌、《華盛頓郵報》、《大西洋》等媒體。畢業於波士頓學院，2015年美國杜克大學演化綜合研究中心駐所記者，獲2011年霍爾海洋學研究所海洋科學新聞獎助。現居波士頓。本書為他的第一本著作。 譯者介紹 張毅瑄 台大化學系、台大歷史研究所畢業，目前專職從事書籍翻譯，譯有《非凡物種》《哺乳動物們：英國博物學家的自然觀察筆記》等。