The Alchemy Of The Heavens offers an exciting and accessible survey of what we know about our galaxy. The home of the earth, the sun, and countless other stars, the Milky Way has long been an object of human fascintation, but it's been in the last forty years that astromoners and astrophysicists have made the most startling discoveries about our galaxy. Author Ken Croswell re...(展开全部)

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that seem to escape scientific resolution and call for, in Gadamer's view, philosophical reflection of a hermeneutic sort.In effect, Gadam...(展开全部)

In "The Quest" Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning." "Each of these essays contains insights w...(展开全部)

米尔恰·伊利亚德，世界著名宗教史家，美国芝加哥大学教授。伊利亚德早年在文学创作上颇有声名，其罗马尼亚语小说《孟加拉之夜》《没有青春的青春》还被改编成了电影。二战结束后至1955年，伊利亚德一直居住在法国巴黎，这期间他的宗教研究达到了一个高峰，以法文的形式出版了一系列宗教著作：《比较宗教的范型》《宇宙和历史》《永恒回归的神话》《瑜伽:不死与自由》《萨满教：古老的昏迷术》等。这系列著作几乎涵盖了20世纪所有宗教的重要研究领域，使他成为一名蜚声国际学术界的宗教史家。1956年伊利亚德到美国任芝加哥大学宗教系主任和教授等职，与同事将芝加哥神学院建设成为国际知名的宗教史研究中心。 晏可佳，上海社会科学院宗教研究所所长、研究员，上海宗教文化研究中心主任。主要译著有《袄教史》《中国天主教简史》《...(展开全部)

Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science. In The Ravenous Br...(展开全部)

Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science. In The Ravenous Br...(展开全部)

In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia found themselves disillusioned with city life. Overwhelmed by long commutes, they stumbled upon a book about Prespa, Greece – a remote corner of Europe filled with stone villages, snow-capped mountains and wildlife, which they would soon call home. Prespa is a crossroads. Where three countries come together around two hug...(展开全部)

In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia found themselves disillusioned with city life. Overwhelmed by long commutes, they stumbled upon a book about Prespa, Greece – a remote corner of Europe filled with stone villages, snow-capped mountains and wildlife, which they would soon call home. Prespa is a crossroads. Where three countries come together around two hug...(展开全部)

Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the ...(展开全部)

The idea that we might be robots is no longer the stuff of science fiction; decades of research in evolutionary biology and cognitive science have led many esteemed thinkers and scientists to the conclusion that, following the precepts of universal Darwinism, humans are merely the hosts for two replicators (genes and memes) that have no interest in us except as conduits for rep...(展开全部)