Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures - from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe - to understand what it means to be human. Through their eyes, ears, skins, tongues and noses, the furred, finned and feathered reveal how we sense and make sense of the world, as well as the untold scientific revolution stirring in the field of human perception. The h...(展开全部)

When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable...(展开全部)

Nearly everyone sw ears—whether it’s over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we’ll mutter in relief seconds after they fall a...(展开全部)

"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offeri...(展开全部)

乔治·莱考夫（George Lakoff），生成语义学、认知语言学的主要创始人，曾任国际认知语言学协会主席。。 1972 年起任职于美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利校区语言学系。其代表性著作有《我们赖以生存的隐喻》（与马克·约翰逊合著，1980）、《女人、火与危险事物：范畴显示的心智》（1987）、《肉身哲学：亲身心智及其向西方思想的挑战》（与马克·约翰逊合著，1999）。莱考夫 2004 年4 月在北京高校的系列讲座内容，汇编成《乔治·莱考夫认知语言学十讲》（2007）出版。

"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offeri...(展开全部)

尼尔斯·艾崔奇（Niles Eldredge），美国最重要的演化学家之一，生物演化“点断平衡”理论之父，同时，他还是可与《自私的基因》作者道金斯比肩的演化学家和科普作家。在超过45年的时间里，艾崔奇凭借扎实的研究和精彩的著作极大地扩展了公众对生物演化的想象与认知。他至今出版过20多部科普著作，并发表过200多篇文章。2000年，由他撰写的《平衡中的生命》（Life in the Balance）被美国《出版人周刊》誉为史上最好的生物科普著作之一。 20世纪70年代，艾崔奇与好友史蒂芬·古尔德（Stephen Gould）共同开创了生物演化的“点断平衡”理论,这一理论是演化学界的里程碑，不仅对达尔文的进化论形成了重要的补充，也成为了与“自私的基因”理论并驾齐驱的流行演化学说。

"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly argue that evolution is, indeed, the grand unifying idea of biology." -- Donald C. Johanson, Found...(展开全部)

There’s a famous piece of writing advice—offered by Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, and myriad writers in between—not to use -ly adverbs like “quickly” or “fitfully.” It sounds like solid advice, but can we actually test it? If we were to count all the -ly adverbs these authors used in their careers, do they follow their own advice compared to other celebrated authors? What’s m...(展开全部)

'Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard.' -Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type 'Fascinating ... intelligent but thoroughly accessible ... full of surprises' - Sunday Times Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that say...(展开全部)