"Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen's and Cassirer's only full-scale study of Kant's philosophy. On a very deep level, all of Cassirer's philosophy was based on Kant's, and accordingly this book is Cassirer's explicit coming to terms with his own historical origins. It sensitively integrates interesting facts about Kant's life with an appreciation and cri...(展开全部)

Erwin Schrodinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, a great scientist, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Schrodinger, Walter Moore draws upon recollections of Schrodinger's friends, family and colleagues, and on contemporary records, letters and diaries. Schrodinger's life is portrayed against the backdr...(展开全部)

Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, a great scientist, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Schrödinger, Walter Moore draws upon recollections of Schrödinger's friends, family and colleagues, and on contemporary records, letters and diaries. Schrödinger's life is portrayed against the backdr...(展开全部)

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent. A more complex s...(展开全部)

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent. A more complex s...(展开全部)

" Out of My Life and Thought shatters the old myth and allows us to glimpse the real Albert Schweitzer, a man whose moral example is as relevant and compelling in the 1990s as it was in the 1930s on first publication. Eloquent and heartfelt."-- Los Angeles Times</P> Of the many highly esteemed books Albert Schweitzer penned in his life, he valued his autobiography the most. ...(展开全部)

At the time of his death in January 2017, Derek Parfit was widely regarded among philosophers as the best and most important moral philosopher in well over a century. He was also both legendarily eccentric and legendarily generous. In his later years he became increasingly reclusive in his obsessive struggle to develop his ideas and arguments about an extensive set of philosoph...(展开全部)

约翰·格里宾（John Gribbin，1946— ），英国著名科学读物专业作家，萨塞克斯大学天文学访问学者，毕业于剑桥大学，获天体物理学博士学位，曾先后任职于《自然》（Nature）杂志和《新科学家》（New Scientist）周刊。他著有百余部科普和科幻作品，内容涉及物理学、宇宙起源、人类起源、气候变化、科学家传记，并获得诸多奖项。《旁观者》（Spectator）杂志称他为“最优秀、最多产的科普作家之一”。他的科学三部曲《薛定谔猫探秘——量子物理学与实在》（In Search of SchrMinger's Cat： Quantum Physics and Reality）、《双螺旋探秘——量子物理学与生命》（In Search of the Double Helix： Quantum Physics and Life）和《大爆炸探秘——量子物...(展开全部)

A lively, fascinating biography of the father of quantum mechanics by the bestselling author of the science classic, "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat" Erwin Schrodinger, best known for his famous "Schrodinger's Cat" paradox, is one of the most famous physicists of the early twentieth century and a member of a new generation of quantum physicists, including Werner Heisenberg, Pau...(展开全部)