The autobiographical novel of a journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.

A moving and beautiful novel of the transformation of rural England. Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, the Enigma of Arrival is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad who arrives in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finds himself as a writer. As he does so, he also observes t...(展开全部)

雨果·梅西耶，宾夕法尼亚大学哲学、政治和经济学博士后，法国国家科学研究中心研究员，主要研究领域是理性的功能和运作机制。 丹·斯珀伯，法国社会学家、认知学家，法国国家科学研究中心名誉教授，其最具影响力的研究领域是认知人类学及语用语言学。

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful, why didn’t it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? In their groundbreaking account of the evolution and workings of reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber set out to solve this double enigma. Reas...(展开全部)

雨果·梅西耶，宾夕法尼亚大学哲学、政治和经济学博士后，法国国家科学研究中心研究员，主要研究领域是理性的功能和运作机制。 丹·斯珀伯，法国社会学家、认知学家，法国国家科学研究中心名誉教授，其最具影响力的研究领域是认知人类学及语用语言学。

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful, why didn’t it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? In their groundbreaking account of the evolution and workings of reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber set out to solve this double enigma. Reas...(展开全部)

Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations are preserved over time. But the biggest mystery about evolution eluded him. As genetics pioneer Hugo de Vries put it, “natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.” Can random mutations over a mere 3.8 billion years really be responsible for wing...(展开全部)

Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations are preserved over time. But the biggest mystery about evolution eluded him. As genetics pioneer Hugo de Vries put it, “natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.” Can random mutations over a mere 3.8 billion years really be responsible for wing...(展开全部)

From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the heavens above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality... Chiang's rigorously imagined stories invite us to que...(展开全部)

大卫·哈维，纽约研究所城市大学著名的人类学教授。他以前曾是约翰斯-霍普金斯大学的地理学和人类学教授，及牛津大学的霍尔福德·麦金德地理学教授。他的著作包括《社会正义和城市》(1973)、《资本的界限》(1982)、《城市经验》(1989)、《后现代性的状况》(1989)、《正义、自然和差异地理学》(1996)和《资本的空间》(2001)。