Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution. Starting in 1967, he shared his time with Cambridge University (until 1975) and then with Princeton, where he continued full time as ...(展开全部)

This book presents articles written by leading experts surveying several major subfields in Condensed Matter Physics and related sciences. The articles are based on invited talks presented at a recent conference honoring Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson of Princeton University, who coined the phrase "More is different" while formulating his contention that all fields of physic...(展开全部)

Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution. Starting in 1967, he shared his time with Cambridge University (until 1975) and then with Princeton, where he continued full time as ...(展开全部)

★著者简介 【美】大卫•福斯特·华莱士 （David Foster Wallace，1962—2008），我们这个时代著名的美国作家之一，与《自由》作者乔纳森·弗兰岑并称为“美国文坛双壁”。 大学的毕业论文是他的第一部小说《系统的笤帚》，名作《无尽的玩笑》被著名编辑迈克尔·皮奇惊叹 为“我想出版这本书胜过想呼吸”，并被《时代》周刊评选为1923年以来世界百部最佳英语小说之一。其未完成作品《苍白的国王》入围普利策奖最终名单。本人曾获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。 即使在天才遍地的欧美文坛，华莱士也是个极为特殊的存在。他对哲学的痴迷，对繁复长句子的无尽追求，让他的作品从一诞生就划上了“神作”的符号，爱他的读者对他的作品如痴如醉，即使不了解他的读者，也不得不承认他是个不可复制的天才作家。 ★译者简介 胡凯衡，博士，中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所研究院研究员。

★著者简介 【美】大卫•福斯特·华莱士 （David Foster Wallace，1962—2008），我们这个时代著名的美国作家之一，与《自由》作者乔纳森·弗兰岑并称为“美国文坛双壁”。 大学的毕业论文是他的第一部小说《系统的笤帚》，名作《无尽的玩笑》被著名编辑迈克尔·皮奇惊叹 为“我想出版这本书胜过想呼吸”，并被《时代》周刊评选为1923年以来世界百部最佳英语小说之一。其未完成作品《苍白的国王》入围普利策奖最终名单。本人曾获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。 即使在天才遍地的欧美文坛，华莱士也是个极为特殊的存在。他对哲学的痴迷，对繁复长句子的无尽追求，让他的作品从一诞生就划上了“神作”的符号，爱他的读者对他的作品如痴如醉，即使不了解他的读者，也不得不承认他是个不可复制的天才作家。 ★译者简介 胡凯衡，博士，中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所研究院研究员。

This book presents articles written by leading experts surveying several major subfields in Condensed Matter Physics and related sciences. The articles are based on invited talks presented at a recent conference honoring Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson of Princeton University, who coined the phrase "More is different" while formulating his contention that all fields of phys...(展开全部)

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption--the most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo. Apt Pupil--a golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. The Body--four rambunctious young boys venture into the Maine woods and in sunlight and thunder find...(展开全部)

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption--the most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo. Apt Pupil--a golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. The Body--four rambunctious young boys venture into the Maine woods and in sunlight and thunder find...(展开全部)

Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to emanate, resisting the Sirens' song of fascination with the voice, concentrating on "the voice and nothing more": this is the diffic...(展开全部)

Different Beasts studies conceptions of human and animal identity as articulated in the ancient Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi and in the works of the seventeenth-century European philosopher Benedict de Spinoza. By examining how, in these very different philosophies, notions of humanness and animality intersect with ideas about human unity and solidarity, social order, and...(展开全部)