Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments. Perhaps...(展开全部)

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, Andrei A. Znamenski uncovers an exciting story t...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

苏珊娜·麦克尼尔（Suzanne McNeill），设计师、艺术家、专栏作家。她非常喜爱尝试各类艺术形式，并将其运用到禅绕画的实际创作中，她的禅绕画灵感艺术作品被称作“魔力艺术”。苏珊娜所写的关于禅绕画的书都受到了广大读者的欢迎。 辛迪·谢帕德（Cindy Shepard），实验艺术家，她的创作专注于材料的循环利用和混合媒介材质的艺术表现。辛迪的禅绕画作品丰富多样，又各具特色。 李阳琨，设计师、自由译者。在国外留学、工作多年，主要从事文化交流、设计和翻译等工作，热衷公益事业。

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...(展开全部)

The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed wi...(展开全部)

This achingly fascinating book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, featuring captivating, grim illustrations of the tools and techniques of dentistry through the ages. It charts the changing social attitudes toward the purpose and practice of dentistry from the crude and painful endeavors of early civilizations to the ...(展开全部)

A new, annotated reader, The Philosophy of Love and Sex, presents not only classic readings on love and sex from a diverse selection of philosophical perspectives but also groundbreaking work in this rapidly changing field. Unlike existing readers, this comprehensive reader takes an interdisciplinary approach, choosing to include the voices of philosophers and philosophically m...(展开全部)

IIn the most important theory of time since Heidegger, Deleuze challenges Kant’s unity of apperception, as well as the phenomenological account of time. This book, using the principles of structuralism, exposes how Freud’s unconscious mechanisms synthesize time. It also gives a vibrant and original account of Deleuze’s theory of the pure Event using detailed exam...(展开全部)