Michael Gurian's blockbuster bestseller "The Wonder of Boys" is the bible for mothers, fathers, and educators on how to understand and raise boys. It has sold over 400,000 copies, been translated into 17 languages, and sells over 25,000 every year, which is more than any other book on boys in history. To follow up on this first book, which launched the boy's movement, he has no...(展开全部)

Praise for The Purpose of boys "Michael Gurian is America's most passionate advocate for boys. In The Purpose of Boys, Gurian creates a rich reading experience and a clear recipe for helping boys to find purpose in their lives." --Michael Thompson, Ph.D., author, It's a Boy , and coauthor, Raising Cain "The Purpose of Boys offers insightful solutions to the problems of so man...(展开全部)

There is a paradox. As children, most of us think we are highly creative; as adults many of us think we are not. What changes as children grow up? Organizations across the globe are competing in a world that is changing faster than ever. They say they need people who can think creatively, who are flexible and quick to adapt. Too often they can't find them. Why not? In this prov...(展开全部)

Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also an accomplished scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In Other Minds, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch o...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 彼得·戈弗雷-史密斯（Peter Godfrey-Smith），纽约城市大学研究生院哲学系特聘教授，悉尼大学科学史和科学哲学教授。他曾著有《理论和实在：科学哲学入门》（Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science）和《达尔文群体和自然选择》（Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection），后者曾荣获2010年拉卡托什奖。他在水下拍摄的章鱼视频可见于《美国国家地理》和《新科学家》等媒体。 ◎ 译者简介 黄颖，哲学博士在读，主要研究兴趣为心灵哲学、科学哲学，以及涉及还原论的形而上学。

探索最伟大的问题——地球之外是否有生命？——背后迷人的前沿科学。 几千年来，我们一直在仰望星空，思索我们在宇宙中是否孤独。在过去的几年中，科学家们在回答这个问题上取得了巨大的进展。在《外星人来了！》这本书中，喜剧演员和科普畅销书作家本·米勒带领我们进行了一次奇妙的发现之旅——从地球上生命的起源到最近对外星智慧生命的搜寻。 我们很快就会明白，对外星人的追踪实际上也是我们对生命本质的探索。需要什么来启动生命？宇宙大爆炸产生的大量能量是如何变成青蛙、树木和工程造价师的？进化论如何提供关于外星生命的线索？它将会是什么样的？（很遗憾，也许不是绿色的或者性感的。） 随着我们的探测器和载人航天任务进入太阳系冒险，我们的望远镜对类地行星的成像越来越精确，我们对外星生命的搜寻从未像现在这样激动人心——或得到更多经费资助。《外星人来了！》是一本全面、易懂、极富娱乐性的指...(展开全部)

Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organism ever recorded – covering ten square kilometres, weighing 35,000 tons and estimated to be over 2,000 years old. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, and for 40 million years its towering structures dominated e...(展开全部)

知名儿童权益宣导人，是资深记者，也是畅销作家，长期关注并投身于自然，家庭和社区领域的事务。现任儿童与自然网络主席，该组织旨在发起国际性的儿童与自然连结的运动。他同时是美国国家儿童与自然论坛的荣誉共同主席，该论坛由保育基金会赞助，长期为全美各地鼓励儿童走出户外的计画提供资金。他目前也是克莱姆森大学的访问学人。 长期在“纽约时报”，“华盛顿邮报”等报章杂志发表文章，1984年至2007年间，为“圣地牙哥联合论坛报”专栏作家，也是“家长”杂志的编辑顾问委员会成员，美国国家儿童发展科学评议会顾问，以及福特基金会“改变世界的领导力”奖项顾问。他亦活跃于媒体，经常在全美及世界各地发表演说，是“哥伦比亚广播公司晨间秀”，“早安美国“，”今日“，”哥伦比亚广播公司夜间新闻“，”全国广播公司晚间新闻“，”国事论衡“等电视广播节目的常客。长期致力于公领域的他获...(展开全部)

One of America’s foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind. How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain...(展开全部)