卡尔·萨根博士是美国康奈尔大学的天文学教授。同时他又是世界著名的科普作家。他对科学的精辟见解使他成为“唯一能够用简单扼要的语言说明科学是什么”的科学家。他成为本世纪最有影响的人物。 卡尔·爱德华·萨根于1934年11月9日生于纽约布鲁克林市，于1955年在芝加哥大学获得物理学学士学位，1956年获得物理学硕士学位，1960年获得天文学和天文物理学博士学位。从60年代早期他就在哈佛大学执教。1971年任康奈尔大学正教授。1996年12月20日，这位当代最伟大的科学家和科普作家在与骨髓癌抗争了两年之后，在福莱德·胡钦斯癌症研究中心与世长辞，年仅62岁。 卡尔·萨根一生研究成果惊人。他的研究重点为金星上的温室效应、火星上的季节变化、原子战争所造成的长期环境影响、地球上的生命起源、外星智能生命探索等。他是宇宙生物学的创始人和开拓者之一。长期以来他一直...(展开全部)

文图作者： Kazuno Kohara：小原胜野，来自日本的绘本插画家，这是他的第一本创作，在本书中他以橘、黑与白色三个色调为主，完成了这一本充满乐趣与一点点惊悚的万圣节绘本。该书出版后获得的2008年，纽约时报书评週刊的十本年度选书之一。 这本书被描述为纽约时报书评家Editor Gregory Cowles描述为“甜蜜而美好”。

In a big old house at the edge of town there's a spooky surprise in store...But who's afraid of a few ghosts? Not this little girl! With a highly original artwork style that's perfect for Halloween, this quirky and very funny story marks the debut of a new talent in picture books. 点击链接进入中文版： 飘着幽灵的小房子

谢林（F. W. J. Schelling, 1775-1854），德国唯心主义哲学家，与康德、费希特、黑格尔并称德国古典哲学四大家。代表作品有《自我作为哲学的本原》《一种自然哲学的理念》《先验唯心论体系》《哲学与宗教》《论人类自由的本质及相关对象》《世界时代》《神话哲学》《启示哲学》等。 先刚，图宾根大学哲学博士，北京大学哲学系教授，博士生导师。主要研究领域：德国古典哲学、古希腊哲学、西方哲学史。

A new English translation of Schelling’s unfinished magnum opus, complete with a contextualizing introduction by the translator. A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling’s magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, S...(展开全部)

The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling. In 1810, after establishing a reputation as Europe’s most prolific philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling embarked on his most ambitious project, The Ages of the World. For over a decade he produced multiple drafts of the work before finally conceding its failure, a “failure” in which He...(展开全部)

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countri...(展开全部)

Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it’s hard to say. In The Weirdness of the World, Schwitzgebel argues that the answers to these funda...(展开全部)