The title of this 1986 work, Dawkins's second book, refers to the Rev. William Paley's 1802 work, Natural Theology, which argued that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Dawkins: ”All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind f...(展开全部)

Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, "The Blind Watchmaker" offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book, which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non-random pr...(展开全部)

From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus – how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better. Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket. Though many of ...(展开全部)

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket. Though many of us were scared away from this essential, engrossing subject in high school and college, Steven Strogatz’s brilliantly creative, down-to-earth history shows that calculus is not about com...(展开全部)

Fred Wallach had been shut away in a bare shed with no way out by window or door and yet he had disappeared. To David Mallin it was not an ideal case for their first as a partnership, but George Coe was enthusiastic. David quickly solved the mystery, revealilng the missing corpse. Unfortunately, he also uncovered another problem. The reaching of the end was a harrowing experien...(展开全部)

Fred Wallach had been shut away in a bare shed with no way out by window or door and yet he had disappeared. To David Mallin it was not an ideal case for their first as a partnership, but George Coe was enthusiastic. David quickly solved the mystery, revealilng the missing corpse. Unfortunately, he also uncovered another problem. The reaching of the end was a harrowing experien...(展开全部)

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results. Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a co...(展开全部)

作者 葛瑞·雷纳 生于美国马萨诸塞州，原是职业吉他手。1987年受到启发，开始心灵的追寻。1990年迁至缅因州，经历了一连串不可思议的觉醒过程。 如今从事投资顾问工作，并继续写作、旅行、演讲，传播“宽恕”的信息，受到东西方读者的爱戴。 ===================== 译者若水

Charles Darwin’s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly SignatureReviewed by Jonah LehrerRichard Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naïvely assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that it [evolution] is true. This shouldn't be too surprising: science is an ed...(展开全部)