戴维·乔治·哈斯凯尔（David George Haskell），美国南方大学教授以及古根海姆研究员（Guggenheim Fellow），致力于生物及环境方面的研究。2017 年他的《树木之歌》获得了约翰·巴勒斯杰出自然写作奖。2012 年他的《看不见的森林》入围普利策奖，并获得2013年美国国家科学院最佳图书奖、美国户外图书奖。

We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution’s creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the w...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. The author's objective is to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments, be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab, so that knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Drawing on 100 interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists ...(展开全部)

Joan Erikson explores the crucial role played by the physical sense at every stage of psychological growth from birth to old age, finding parallels between the creation of art as we usually define it and the creation of self the most artful act of all. In the experience of making and doing, she located a primary source of human growth and vitality. Wisdom and the Senses is itse...(展开全部)

Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and t...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a contemporary of the great German philosophers Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, who broke from the ideological traditions of his day to espouse a unique doctrine of pessimism and individualism. His writings represent an almost Romantic counterpoint to the abstract system-building that culminated in the work of Hegel. ...(展开全部)

汤川秀树（1907年1月23日～1981年9月8日），日本著名物理学家，毕业于京都帝国大学（现京都大学）和大阪帝国大学（现大阪大学）。历任京都帝国大学、东京帝国大学（现东京大学）教授。1948年，赴美国任哥伦比亚大学教授。1949年，因在核力的理论基础上预言了介子的存在，时任京都大学教授的汤川秀树获得当年的诺贝尔物理学奖。1955年返回日本。他从电磁理论得到启发，于1935年提出了关于核子力的“介子理论”。他也是第一个获得诺贝尔奖的日本人。

Critique and Crisis established Reinhart Koselleck's reputation as the most important German intellectual historian of the postwar period. This first English translation of Koselleck's tour de force demonstrates a chronological breadth, a philosophical depth, and an originality which are hardly equalled in any scholarly domain. It is a history of the Enlightenment in miniature,...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 但凡思考过20世纪30年代“大萧条”问题的经济学家，大都认为那是一场无妄之灾，而不是无法避免的悲剧。他们认为，假如当年赫伯特•胡佛没有在经济萧条迫在眉睫时还试图保持预算平衡，假如当年美联储没有以牺牲国内经济为代价来维护金本位，假如当年政府官员迅速向境况不妙的银行注资，以平复 1930～1931年间蔓延开来的银行恐慌，那么1929年的股市崩溃将只会引发一场普普通通的、很快被人遗忘的经济衰退。他们还认为，经济学家和决策者已经汲取了教训。真的是这样吗？ 1929年股市大崩盘，拉开20世纪大萧条序幕；1982年债务危机，第三世界国家遭遇危机后的萧条；1991年日本经济泡沫破裂，至今仍在萧条中徘徊;1997年亚洲金融危机爆发，诸多经济体深陷衰退；2007年美国次贷...(展开全部)

This book explains the success of the nineteenth century system of international convertibility and the calamitous collapse of the late 1920's and the attempt to bring it back to life. Also outlines the radical institutional reforms which might ward off these dangers.