The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.

The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.

"The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. . . . There are very few other books in sociology . . . with such meticulous scholarship, or so elegant a style. This collecti...(展开全部)

"The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. . . . There are very few other books in sociology . . . with such meticulous scholarship, or so elegant a style. This collecti...(展开全部)

In the tradition of Schrodinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein. Kauffman's At Home in the Universe, which The New York Times Book Review called "passionately wri...(展开全部)

In the tradition of Schrodinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein. Kauffman's At Home in the Universe, which The New York Times Book Review called "passionately wri...(展开全部)

Long considered one of the most provocative and demanding major works on human sociobiology, "Genes, Mind, and Culture" introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. It has been out of print for several years, and in this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the discipline dur...(展开全部)

爱德华·O·威尔逊（Edward O. Wilson），世界杰出生物学家之一，“社会生物学”奠基人和最早宣传“生物多样性”概念的人之一。他在全世界获得了100多个奖项和荣誉，包括美国国家科学奖章、瑞典皇家科学院颁发的克拉福德奖、日本国际生物学奖，并以著作《论人的本性》（On Human Nature）《蚂蚁》（ The Ants，合著）两次获得普利策非虚构类图书奖。他目前是哈佛大学比较动物学博物馆昆虫馆的名誉馆长兼荣誉研究教授。 查尔斯·J·拉姆斯登（Charles J. Lumsden, 1949— ），多伦多大学医学教授。他的其他著作包括《普罗米修斯之火》（与爱德华·O·威尔逊合著）、《字母表与大脑》（与凯尔克霍弗合著）、《临床方法》（与怀特赛德合著） 刘利，北京大学哲学系科学技术哲学专业博士，大连理工大学哲学系师资博士后出站，研究方向为进化思想...(展开全部)