In The Great Divide, acclaimed author and historian Peter Watson explores the development of humankind between the Old World and the New, and offers a groundbreaking new understanding of human history. By 15,000 BC, humans had migrated from northeastern Asia across the frozen Bering land bridge to the Americas. When the last Ice Agecame to an end, the Bering Strait refilled wit...(展开全部)

Over the past fifty years, the United States and other developed countries have made the transformation from industrial to information societies; knowledge has replaced mass production as the basis of wealth, power, and social interaction. At the same time, Western societies have endured increasing levels of crime, massive changes in fertility and family structure, decreasing l...(展开全部)

拉马钱德兰博士是美国加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校脑和认知研究中心教授兼主任，也是拉霍亚（La Jolla）索尔克生物学研究所副教授。他被《新闻周刊》（Newsweek）提名为21世纪中最值得关注的100名重要人物之一，2011年《时代（Time）》杂志在其“时代100精英（Time 100）”中把他列为“世界上最有影响力的人物”之一。他获得过许多奖项，其中包括荷兰的阿里恩斯-卡珀斯（Ariens-Kappers）奖章、澳大利亚国立大学金质奖章，牛津万灵学院（All Souls College, Oxford）董事，并受到许多媒体的专访。他和他的家人居住在加利福尼亚州的德尔马（Del Mar）。 布莱克斯利（Sandra Blakeslee）是《纽约时报》的获奖科学作家。她和沃勒斯坦（Judith Wallerstein）博士合著的《第二次机会（Secon...(展开全部)

拉马钱德兰博士是美国加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校脑和认知研究中心教授兼主任，也是拉霍亚（La Jolla）索尔克生物学研究所副教授。他被《新闻周刊》（Newsweek）提名为21世纪中最值得关注的100名重要人物之一，2011年《时代（Time）》杂志在其“时代100精英（Time 100）”中把他列为“世界上最有影响力的人物”之一。他获得过许多奖项，其中包括荷兰的阿里恩斯-卡珀斯（Ariens-Kappers）奖章、澳大利亚国立大学金质奖章，牛津万灵学院（All Souls College, Oxford）董事，并受到许多媒体的专访。他和他的家人居住在加利福尼亚州的德尔马（Del Mar）。 布莱克斯利（Sandra Blakeslee）是《纽约时报》的获奖科学作家。她和沃勒斯坦（Judith Wallerstein）博士合著的《第二次机会（Secon...(展开全部)

Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context o...(展开全部)

Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context o...(展开全部)

This book explores the sea and its meanings from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics, from Atlantis to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Richard Hamblyn traces a cultural and geographical journey from estuary to abyss, beginning with the topographies of the shoreline and ending with the likely futures of our maritime environments. Along the way the book considers the sea ...(展开全部)

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

佩里•安德森（Perry Anderson，1938— ）历史社会学家、思想史家，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系和社会学系教授，主持《新左派评论》达20年之久，发表了大量著述，代表作有《从古代到封建主义的过渡》、《绝对主义国家的系谱》等。被文化批评家泰勒•伊格尔顿 (Terry Eagleton) 誉为“不列颠最杰出的马克思主义知识分子”。

A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, an...(展开全部)