Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia, watching a peregrine falcon perform acrobatic stunts at 200 miles per hour, or engaging in a tense face-off with a mountain lion near a desert waterhole, Craig Childs captures the moment so vividly that he puts the reader in his b...(展开全部)

THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES tells of Craig Childs' own chilling experiences among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coast of British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America, jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, mountain lions, elk, Bighorn Sheep, and others. More than chilling, however, these stories are lyrical, enchanting, and reach beyond what one commo...(展开全部)

Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social o...(展开全部)

哈钦斯(E．Hutchins) 哈钦斯曾是约翰(D．John)和凯瑟琳(T．Catherine)麦克阿瑟基金会(MacA rthur Foundation Fellow)的创建者，现为加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校(University of CaIifornia，San DiegO)认知科学系(Department of Cognitive Science)教授。其代表作有Culture and infrence：A Trobriand Case Study(1980)，Cognilion in the Wild (1995)。他是认知科学中分布式认知研究纲领的主要提出者和推动者。

Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans fi...(展开全部)

伯尼•克劳斯博土，世界知名音乐家、博物学家，致力于发现、记录自然界的宝贵声音。20世纪50年代至60年代，他醉心于音乐，并接替“美国民歌之父”的皮特•西格(Pete Seeger)成为织工乐队(the Weavers)的吉他手。曾为著名电影《罗丝玛丽的婴儿》（Rosemary's Baby)和《现代启示录》（Apocalypse Now)制作背景音乐。之后，他利用40年的时间，足迹遍布世界各地，记录不同生物不同环境下的各种声音，使都市人能够听到这个世界上最遥远的声音。他曾录制了15000多种生物、时长超过4000小时的原始声效。由于噪音和人类活动的干扰，其中一半以上的音效已在自然界绝迹。现与妻子凯瑟琳居住在加利福尼亚。 卢超，认知心理语言学博士，北京科技大学外国语学院高级讲师，曾赴美国佛州海岸大学和英国德蒙福特大学访学和工作。主要研究方向为具身认知视...(展开全部)

伯尼•克劳斯博土，世界知名音乐家、博物学家，致力于发现、记录自然界的宝贵声音。20世纪50年代至60年代，他醉心于音乐，并接替“美国民歌之父”的皮特•西格(Pete Seeger)成为织工乐队(the Weavers)的吉他手。曾为著名电影《罗丝玛丽的婴儿》（Rosemary's Baby)和《现代启示录》（Apocalypse Now)制作背景音乐。之后，他利用40年的时间，足迹遍布世界各地，记录不同生物不同环境下的各种声音，使都市人能够听到这个世界上最遥远的声音。他曾录制了15000多种生物、时长超过4000小时的原始声效。由于噪音和人类活动的干扰，其中一半以上的音效已在自然界绝迹。现与妻子凯瑟琳居住在加利福尼亚。 卢超，认知心理语言学博士，北京科技大学外国语学院高级讲师，曾赴美国佛州海岸大学和英国德蒙福特大学访学和工作。主要研究方向为具身认知视...(展开全部)

Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans fi...(展开全部)

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail uses the history of the empire's m...(展开全部)

Alan Mikhail is Professor of History at Yale University.