Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevit...(展开全部)

杰西卡·里斯金（Jessica Riskin），先后毕业于哈佛大学和加州大学伯克利分校，曾任教于麻省理工学院和巴黎政治学院，现在斯坦福大学教授欧洲史和科学史。研究方向包括早期现代科学、政治文化和科学解释史。所著《感性时代的科学》获得美国历史学会的J.拉塞尔·梅杰奖。里斯金认为，自现代科学诞生以来，生命模型之争就从未停止，它极大影响着当今进化生物学、认知科学和人工智能领域的发展。

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevit...(展开全部)

Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract ...(展开全部)

What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems Jeffrey C. Alexander In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of the civil sphere. In the steady state, reactions to strains unfold...(展开全部)

Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often college-educated, backgrounds. In What Makes a Terrorist, Alan Krueger argues t...(展开全部)

This book introduces the fast-developing field of book history. James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages. Students, teachers, researchers and general readers will benefit from the book's investigation of th...(展开全部)

本书出自国际知名的设计心理学专家之手，内容实用、示例清晰，以创造直观而又有吸引力的设计为宗旨，讨论了100个设计师必须知道的心理学问题，每个问题短小精悍，片刻即可读完，让人轻轻松松地理解设计背后的心理学动机。

The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·图尔敏(Stephen E.Toulmin，1922―2009)出生于英国伦敦，1948年在剑桥大学以数理逻辑研究获得博士学位，后长期任教于美国的大学，讲授科学哲学、逻辑学和伦理学课程。他的著述有力地论述了传统形式逻辑的局限性，主张用“实践逻辑”补充形式逻辑的不足，提出了在今天国际逻辑和论证研究中*有影响力的“图尔敏论证模型”。