In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet only recently have scientists attempte...(展开全部)

In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet only recently have scientists attempte...(展开全部)

What defines a work of art and determines the way in which we respond to it? Richard Wollheim’s classic reflection on art and its objects was written in the belief that the nature of art has to be understood simultaneously from the artist’s and the spectator’s viewpoint. In pursuit of this enquiry, Wollheim considers central questions regarding expression, representation, style...(展开全部)

吉诺·格塞雷（GinoSegrè），美国宾夕法尼亚大学物理和天文学教授。他是世界闻名的高能基本粒子理论物理学家，曾受到美国国家科学基金、艾尔弗雷德·斯隆基金、约翰·古根海姆基金和美国能源部的嘉奖。本书是他的代表作。

吉诺·格塞雷（GinoSegrè），美国宾夕法尼亚大学物理和天文学教授。他是世界闻名的高能基本粒子理论物理学家，曾受到美国国家科学基金、艾尔弗雷德·斯隆基金、约翰·古根海姆基金和美国能源部的嘉奖。本书是他的代表作。

Before the ink was dry on the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the young republic. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce from the vicious depredations of the Barbary pirates, or would it drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the...(展开全部)

While a farmer tends his field of wheat, six hungry crows watch and wait in a nearby tree. When the wheat ripens, the farmer builds a scarecrow to frighten them off, but these ingenious crows are not so easily scared. Bringing this original fable to life with brilliant collages, Leo Lionni deftly draws parallels between animal and human behavior that children can readily apprec...(展开全部)

While a farmer tends his field of wheat, six hungry crows watch and wait in a nearby tree. When the wheat ripens, the farmer builds a scarecrow to frighten them off, but these ingenious crows are not so easily scared. Bringing this original fable to life with brilliant collages, Leo Lionni deftly draws parallels between animal and human behavior that children can readily apprec...(展开全部)