In his bestselling The Moral Animal , Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next. In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny , Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze...(展开全部)

At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded — and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing ga...(展开全部)

资中筠，1951年清华大学西方语言文学系毕业。国际政治及美国研究专家，资深学者、翻译家。中国社会科学院荣誉学部委员。曾任中国社会科学院美国研究所所长、《美国研究》主编、研究员。 参与创办《美国研究》杂志和中华美国学会，创立“中美关系史研究会”并任第一、第二届会长。 主要著作：《追根溯源：战后美国对华政策的缘起与发展，1945-1950》、《战后美国外交史：从杜鲁门到里根》、《二十世纪的美国》（主编《冷眼向洋：百年风云启示录》之一）、《资中筠集》（学术论文）。随笔集：《斗室中的天下》、《锦瑟无端》、《读书人的出世与入世》、《学海岸边》（与陈乐民合集）、《资中筠自选集》（五卷），《美国十讲》、《老生常谈》等。 翻译有巴尔扎克（法国）、薇拉•凯瑟（美国）、阿兰•德波顿（英国）等人的著作。

Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sen...(展开全部)

The Power of Logic renders balanced coverage of informal and formal logic in concise, accurate, and lively prose, making it the most accessible introductory logic text available. The text' s plentiful examples, imaginative exercises, and numerous visual aids help students develop their critical thinking skills as they put the powerful tools of logic to work.

In "The Logic of Life", Francois Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.

Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sen...(展开全部)

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing...(展开全部)