The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented in a broad overview. Despite centuries of prohibition against leaving the land and traveling and settling overseas, the “earthbound” Chinese—first traders, then peasants and workers...(展开全部)

A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward? Time moves forward, not backward梕veryone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the univers...(展开全部)

"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory ...(展开全部)

Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its...(展开全部)

Consciousness is one of science's last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from networks of neurons and their associated synaptic and molecular p...(展开全部)

毛里齐奥·斯卡尔帕里（司马儒），意大利汉学家，曾担任东亚研究系主任，亚洲与北非研究学院院长等职位。主要研究中国的先秦时期，长期耕耘在中国古代哲学思想、文学史、考古学领域，从各个可能的角度研究中国文明的形成与兴起，探究中国文化和身份的基本特征，尤其是传统与现代的关系。出版了多部著作，包括《孟子与执政之道》（2013）、《道教：历史、学说与实践》（2014）、《儒家学说》（2015）、《回归孔子之道：在传统文化与现代市场之间的今日中国》（2015）等。

毛里齐奥·斯卡尔帕里（司马儒），意大利汉学家，曾担任东亚研究系主任，亚洲与北非研究学院院长等职位。主要研究中国的先秦时期，长期耕耘在中国古代哲学思想、文学史、考古学领域，从各个可能的角度研究中国文明的形成与兴起，探究中国文化和身份的基本特征，尤其是传统与现代的关系。出版了多部著作，包括《孟子与执政之道》（2013）、《道教：历史、学说与实践》（2014）、《儒家学说》（2015）、《回归孔子之道：在传统文化与现代市场之间的今日中国》（2015）等。