This book focuses on art, and how what a child might think is a mistake — a blob, a dribble — can actually turn into something wonderful if you use your imaginative powers and tinker with it in just the right way.

Although Einstein was the greatest genius of the 20th century, many of his ground-breaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes, ranging from serious misconceptions in physics to blatant errors in mathematics. For instance, Einstein's first theoretical proof of the famous formula E = mc2 was incomplete and only approximately valid; he struggled with this problem for many years...(展开全部)

Einstein's breakthroughs in special and general relativity, cosmology, black holes, the principle of the expanding universe, quantum physics and unified scientific theory are some of the best-known discoveries of the previous century. But how these discoveries were linked to the findings of those who came before him - Galileo, Newton, Copernicus and Eddington, to name a few - i...(展开全部)

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelli...(展开全部)

For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time).

莫提默·艾德勒(Mortimer J.Adler，1902―2001)，《如何閱讀一本書》作者，生於紐約，以學者、教育家、編輯等多重身份享有盛名。主編《西方世界的經典》，並擔任1974年第十五版《大英百科全書》的編輯指導而聞名於世。他在芝加哥大學執教（1930－1952）時，於1946年幫助策劃了“名著計劃”，1952年起任哲學研究所所長。

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelli...(展开全部)

For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time).

莫提默·艾德勒(Mortimer J.Adler，1902―2001)，《如何閱讀一本書》作者，生於紐約，以學者、教育家、編輯等多重身份享有盛名。主編《西方世界的經典》，並擔任1974年第十五版《大英百科全書》的編輯指導而聞名於世。他在芝加哥大學執教（1930－1952）時，於1946年幫助策劃了“名著計劃”，1952年起任哲學研究所所長。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。