After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill ...(展开全部)

It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine a...(展开全部)

比尔·布莱森，世界知名的非虚构作家，1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州，曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等刊物撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等，横跨多种领域，皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝、整体上举重若轻，能让普通读者产生很强的认同感，不失为雅俗共赏的典范，深受读者喜爱，也获得很高的评价，每部作品均高踞美、英、加畅销排行榜前茅。 比尔·布莱森之所以能在二十世纪的旅游文学中占据一席之地，并成为目前世界公认的最有趣的旅游文学作家，是因为他擅长用不同的眼光来看待他所游历的世界，他真切地捕捉到了一个旅人的内心感受。自然地理、生活情趣、社会时态，布莱森信手拈来无不奇趣，使普通读者产生很强的认同感。他的尖刻加上他的博学，让他的文字充满了智慧、机敏和幽默...(展开全部)

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts," and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the...(展开全部)

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts," and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the...(展开全部)

作者简介： 布鲁诺·拉图尔（Bruno Latour），科学哲学家、科学社会学家。其著作包括《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》等，在科学的文化与社会研究领域、科学哲学领域，乃至对整个后现代主义思潮，都产生了广泛的影响。 史蒂夫·伍尔加（Steve Woolgar），英国社会学家，在科学研究、科学知识社会学（SSK）和科学技术研究（STS）领域具有重要影响，著有《知识与反身性》《工作中的机器》等。

作者简介： 布鲁诺·拉图尔（Bruno Latour），科学哲学家、科学社会学家。其著作包括《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》等，在科学的文化与社会研究领域、科学哲学领域，乃至对整个后现代主义思潮，都产生了广泛的影响。 史蒂夫·伍尔加（Steve Woolgar），英国社会学家，在科学研究、科学知识社会学（SSK）和科学技术研究（STS）领域具有重要影响，著有《知识与反身性》《工作中的机器》等。

Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-...(展开全部)

Samuele Chilovi , Institute of Philosophy (IFS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Samuele Chilovi , Institute of Philosophy (IFS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)