弗里曼·戴森（Freeman Dyson），现任普林斯顿高等研究院的荣誉退休教授，他不仅是一位杰出的科学家，而且也是一位天赋异禀的作家；同时也是伦敦皇家学会会员、美国国家科学院院士，获十八个荣誉学位。他的著作包括《全方位的无限》、《武器与希望》、《宇宙波澜》、《想象的未来》、《太阳、基因组与互联网》、《从爱神到盖娅》等。

How did life on Earth originate? Did replication or metabolism come first in the history of life? In the second edition of the acclaimed Origins of Life, distinguished scientist and science writer Freeman Dyson examines these questions and discusses the two main theories that try to explain how naturally occurring chemicals could organize themselves into living creatures. The m...(展开全部)

Social capital theorists have shown that inequality arises in part because some people enjoy larger, more supportive or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others? Unanticipated Gains argues that the answer lies less in people's deliberate "networking" than in the institutional conditions of the colleges, firms, gyms, and other organ...(展开全部)

- How did the Sun come into existence? - How was the Earth formed? - How long has Earth been the way it is now, with its combination of oceans and continents? - How do you define "life"? - How did the first life forms emerge? - What conditions made it possible for living things to evolve? All these questions are answered in this colourful textbook addressing undergraduate stude...(展开全部)

Wolverhampton Wanderers FC was founded in 1877 as St Luke's Football Club, and became one of the founding members of the Football League. The Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers tells the story of the

Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity. “Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,” begins Edward O. Wilson’s sweeping examination of the humanities and its relationship to the sciences. By studyin...(展开全部)

●进化生物学家，殿堂级科学巨星，有“社会生物学之父”“当代达尔文”之称，提出了生物多样性、知识大融通等概念，创立了岛屿生物地理学、社会生物学等学科。 ●累计获得过100多项国际大奖，其中包括美国国家科学奖、“生态诺贝尔奖”克拉福德奖等。被《时代周刊》评为“对当代美国影响最大的25位美国人”之一。 ●哈佛大学荣誉教授，哈佛大学昆虫馆荣誉馆长，截止目前出版了20余部权威著作，代表作有《社会生物学》《半个地球》《人类存在的意义》等，两度问鼎普利策奖。

Winner, 2009 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, presented by the American Psychological Association. and Honorable Mention, Literature, Language & Linguistics category, 2008 PROSE Awards presented by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even sh...(展开全部)

Do survival instincts have anything to do with our architectural choices - our liking for a certain room, a special stairway, a plaza in a particular city? In this engaging study Grant Hildebrand discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appealing - and useful to survival - from ancient times to the present. Speculating ...(展开全部)

Generally regarded as the definitive work on totalitarianism, this book is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political movements. Arendt was one of the first to recognize that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. “With the Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt emerges as ...(展开全部)