"Writing with grace and clarity...he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles o the right and left brain in perceiving music." WALL STREET JOURNAL Drawing on his own life long passion for music and synthesizing the theories of Plato, Schopenhauer, Stravinsky, Nietzsche, B...(展开全部)

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. But music could not be explained without addressing language, and could not...(展开全部)

【英】史蒂芬•米森（Steven Mithen） 英国雷丁大学考古学教授，2004年当选为英国国家人文和社会科学院院士，著有《思维的史前史：艺术，宗教和科学的认知起源》《思考中的觅食者》等书。

One is a science, the other an art; one useful, the other seemingly decorative, but mathematics and music share common origins in cult and mystery and have been linked throughout history. Emblems of Mind is Edward Rothstein’s classic exploration of their profound similarities, a journey into their “inner life.” Along the way, Rothstein explains how mathematics makes sense of ...(展开全部)

Rudy Rucker is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Jose State University and the author of numerous books on mathematics and philosophy, including Artificial Life Lab, Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, and The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of Higher Universes. Among his works of science fiction are White Light, Software, and Space-Time Donu...(展开全部)

Rudy Rucker is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Jose State University and the author of numerous books on mathematics and philosophy, including Artificial Life Lab, Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, and The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of Higher Universes. Among his works of science fiction are White Light, Software, and Space-Time Donu...(展开全部)

Having a moon for a head at high school is a pretty tricky situation. But when the school talent contest is announced, Joey Moonhead spots an opportunity to impress his classmates with a music machine. An imaginative and visually poetic take on the stock American high school drama, this is one graphic novel that's out of this world!

Meet Joey Moonhead. A normal kid in every way. Except one: he has a moon for a head.Equipped with little else but a boundless imagination and an insatiable desire to be the best musician in existence, Joey Moonhead embarks on a stellar mission to create a machine that is out of this world. Andrew Rae's reinterpretation of the American High School drama is visually poetic, imagi...(展开全部)

作者 杰罗姆·弗兰克 Jerome Frank，1889~1957 美国现实主义法学运动“事实怀疑论”的旗帜性人物。早年求学于芝加哥大学，获文学学士和法学硕士学位。1912年毕业后先后在律师事务所以及政府部门工作，20世纪30年代年曾任教于美国现实主义法学中心之一的耶鲁大学法学院。支持“新政”并于1939~1941年担任美国联邦证券交易委员会主席，1941年被罗斯福总统任命为美国第二巡回区上诉法院法官，并在此职位上一直工作到去世。其主要著作有：《法律与现代精神》（1930），《法院实际上在做什么》（1932），《法官霍姆斯先生和非欧几里得法律思想》（1932），《如果人人都是天使》（1942），《卡多佐与上院迷思》（1948），《初审法院：美国司法的神话和现实》（1949）等。 译者 刘楠 1966年生，英国伦敦大学亚非学院法学硕士、西南政法大学法...(展开全部)

"Law and the Modern Mind" first appeared in 1930 when, in the words of Judge Charles E. Clark, it "fell like a bomb on the legal world." In the generations since, its influence has grown - today it is accepted as a classic of general jurisprudence. The work is a bold and persuasive attack on the delusion that the law is a bastion of predictable and logical action. Jerome Frank'...(展开全部)