Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 休•甘迺迪Hugh Kennedy 資深著名伊斯蘭研究學者。倫敦大學亞非學院語言與文化系阿拉伯語文教授，英國學院和皇家學院研究員。他是研究哈里發制度權威，從16歲開始對此主題產生興趣，出版過多本教科書等級的哈里發相關著作，如《哈里發的宮廷》（Court of the Caliphs）。二○○○年，被選為愛丁堡皇家學會院士。二○一三年，被選為英國國家學術院院士。 譯者簡介 黃煜文 1974年生。專職譯者，譯有《讀建築》、《阿拉伯人500年史》、《耶路撒冷三千年》、《我們最幸福：北韓人民的真實生活》等書。

Since its original publication in 1989, "Evolution: The History of an Idea" has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This twentieth anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining recent scholarship and trends within the study of evolution.

The most remarkable feat of monarchy is to have survived into the 21st century, frequently challenged but still strong. It has persisted even though the hereditary principle has frequently meant that a reigning king or queen was not suited to the role, whatever their birthright. How was monarchy come to be associated with deomcracy and tolerance, when its roots lie elsewhere, i...(展开全部)

作者簡介 休•甘迺迪Hugh Kennedy 資深著名伊斯蘭研究學者。倫敦大學亞非學院語言與文化系阿拉伯語文教授，英國學院和皇家學院研究員。他是研究哈里發制度權威，從16歲開始對此主題產生興趣，出版過多本教科書等級的哈里發相關著作，如《哈里發的宮廷》（Court of the Caliphs）。二○○○年，被選為愛丁堡皇家學會院士。二○一三年，被選為英國國家學術院院士。 譯者簡介 黃煜文 1974年生。專職譯者，譯有《讀建築》、《阿拉伯人500年史》、《耶路撒冷三千年》、《我們最幸福：北韓人民的真實生活》等書。

From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy points out the three principles--plenitude, continuity, and graduation--w...(展开全部)

阿瑟·O.洛夫乔伊（Arthur Oncken Lovejoy,1873-1962） 美国哲学家，批判实在主义代表之一。曾任霍普金斯大学教授，1916-1917年任美国哲学协会会长。1940年创办《思想史杂志》，并任编辑。与桑塔亚那、赛拉斯等合著的《批判实在主义论文集》为批判实在主义的代表作。主要著作还有《批判实在主义》、《对二元论的反叛》。

A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, political institutions, corporations, and the media. But how did it become such a powerful—and global—idea? From ancient glass to Apple’s ...(展开全部)

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once ...(展开全部)