Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what a new physics - one that is adequate to account for our extraordinary brain - might look like. It is also a bold speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is. In this illuminating book Penrose provides powerful argu...(展开全部)

A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhil...(展开全部)

A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhil...(展开全部)

"ONE OF THE GREAT SERIES OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES" So wrote Ellery Queen in the late 1940's when he introduced American readers to the writings of Vincent Cornier (1898-1976). Cornier's detective, Barnabas Hildreth, created for a British magazine in 1933, was not only an agent of the British Secret Service but was also known as "The Black Monk," and he faced (and solved) s...(展开全部)

The massively acclaimed Alien franchise is one of the most successful of all time, beginning with the first film in 1979. In a dramatic twist, this novel will return us to that time, to Ellen Ripley, and to never-before-revealed secrets of the Weyland-Yutani Corporations...secrets that lead into the events of the second film, Aliens...and beyond!

THE FIRST IN AN ALL NEW, OFFICIAL TRILOGY SET IN THE ALIEN UNIVERSE! Featuring the iconic Ellen Ripley in a terrifying new adventure that bridges the gap between Alien and Aliens. Officially sanctioned and true to the Alien canon, Alien: Out of the Shadows expands upon the well-loved mythos and is a must for all Alien fans.

E.H.贡布里希 E.H.Gombrich (1909-2001)，艺术史家。生于维也纳，后移居英国。1959年起，任伦敦瓦尔堡研究院院长，直至1976年退休。1972年，获封爵士；1988年，获功绩勋章。著有脍炙人口、影响深广的《艺术的故事》和 《世界小史》等书。 译者 王立秋，北京大学国际关系学院比较政治学系政治思想专业博士生，出版有《潜能》（与严和来等合译）等译著。

E.H.贡布里希 E.H.Gombrich (1909-2001)，艺术史家。生于维也纳，后移居英国。1959年起，任伦敦瓦尔堡研究院院长，直至1976年退休。1972年，获封爵士；1988年，获功绩勋章。著有脍炙人口、影响深广的《艺术的故事》和 《世界小史》等书。 译者 王立秋，北京大学国际关系学院比较政治学系政治思想专业博士生，出版有《潜能》（与严和来等合译）等译著。

Used today in spheres of life as diverse as business strategy, creative writing, medicine, computer science, and theoretical physics, Venn diagrams possess fascinating properties. The basic Venn diagram is both elegantly simple-three overlapping circles that intersect to create eight distinct areas-and conceptually innovative. Devised by English logician John Venn (1834-1923) t...(展开全部)