Only a scholar as rich in learning as I. Bernard Cohen could do justice to a theme so subtle and yet so grand. Spanning five centuries and virtually all of scientific endeavor, "Revolution in Science" traces the nuances that differentiate both scientific revolutions and human perceptions of them, weaving threads of detail from physics, mathematics, behaviorism, Freud, atomic ph...(展开全部)

The seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg's concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern physics, in which he played a towering role. The outgrowth of a celebrated lecture series, this book remains as relevant, provocative, and fascinating as when it was first published in 1958....(展开全部)

Nobel Prize-winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) is known for the development of quantum mechanics and the principle of indeterminancy. In physics and Philosophy he explains how modern advances in science alter, and often destroy, traditional ways only when the philosophical assumptions embedded in scientific method allow for modifications when new evidence e...(展开全部)

Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. Heisenberg reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the nature of reality.

查尔斯•罗登•巴克斯顿，英国著名历史学家、政治家，《奥尔巴尼时评》主编。毕业于哈罗公学和剑桥三一学院，任教于莫利学院，主攻西亚史，尤擅土耳其史。后来他当选议员，进入仕途，长期担任英国工党殖民政策顾问。 译者简介 李娜，西北民族大学预科教育学院副教授，硕士研究生学历。著有《国民党去台高官的落幕余生》《中国近现代史纲要》等书。主持甘肃省社科规划项目《晚晴野史研究》，参加《民族学视阈下的回族清真饮食文化研究》等研究项目。发表《从张荫桓之私家著述看张荫桓“荐康”之说》《从晚清野史看李端棻与维新派进用之关系》等论文十余篇。

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Joseph W. Esherick was born in Marin County, north of San Francisco, in 1942 and studied Chinese history at Harvard (B.A., 1964, summa cum laude) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., 1971). He taught at the University of Oregon from 1971 to 1990, when he moved to the University of California at San Diego, where he is now a Distinguished Professor in the History Department. Having participat...(展开全部)

A foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy. Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Critique of Pure Reason, “categorical imperative,” and conception of perpetual peace in the global order decisively influenced both intellectual history and twentieth-century poli...(展开全部)

The China Society for People's Friendship Studies （PFS） in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press （FLP） in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events de...(展开全部)