For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines , he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and mac...(展开全部)

For over three decades, the great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: ...(展开全部)

雷·库兹韦尔他曾发明了盲人阅读机、音乐合成器和语音识别系统。为此他获得许多奖项：狄克森奖、卡耐基梅隆科学奖。1988年，麻省理工学院提名他为“当年杰出发明家“。他曾获9项名誉博士学位，2次总统荣誉奖。库兹韦尔也是一名成功的企业家，他用他的发明创办了自己的企业，开发出多项造福人类的高科技产品。库兹韦尔是多部畅销书的作者。他1990年出版的《智能机器的时代》成功地预言了电脑将在1998年战胜棋王，该书获得了美国出版协会“最优秀的计算机科学著作”奖。 库兹韦尔现任奇点大学校长。

雷·库兹韦尔他曾发明了盲人阅读机、音乐合成器和语音识别系统。为此他获得许多奖项：狄克森奖、卡耐基梅隆科学奖。1988年，麻省理工学院提名他为“当年杰出发明家“。他曾获9项名誉博士学位，2次总统荣誉奖。库兹韦尔也是一名成功的企业家，他用他的发明创办了自己的企业，开发出多项造福人类的高科技产品。库兹韦尔是多部畅销书的作者。他1990年出版的《智能机器的时代》成功地预言了电脑将在1998年战胜棋王，该书获得了美国出版协会“最优秀的计算机科学著作”奖。 库兹韦尔现任奇点大学校长。

Biology until recently has been the neglected stepchild of science, and many educated people have little grasp of how biology explains the natural world. Yet to address the major political and moral questions that face us today, we must acquire an understanding of their biological roots. This magisterial new book by Ernst Mayr will go far to remedy this situation. An eye...(展开全部)

Robert M. Sapolsky 羅伯．薩波斯基 羅伯．薩伯斯基是位神經生物學家（研究大腦的人）加上靈長類對物學家（研究猴子和猩猩的人），從小喜歡閱讀，花長時間閱讀和想像與銀背大猩猩一起生活的樣貌。他出生於紐約布魯克林，父親是來自蘇聯的猶太移民。 1978年，薩伯斯基在哈佛大學以優異成績獲得生物人類學學位，之後前往肯尼研究野外猩猩的社會行為。之後回到紐約並在洛克菲勒大學學習，獲得了博士學位。他目前是史丹福大學生物學暨神經學教授，麥克阿瑟基金會授予研究資助，也是好幾本書的作者。著有數本非虛構作品，包括《一隻靈長類動物的回憶錄》（A Primate’s Memoir）、《睪固酮的麻煩》（The Trouble with Testosteron）和《為什麼斑馬不會得胃潰瘍？》（Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers）。他與妻子、兩個孩子...(展开全部)

From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky’s storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person’s reaction in the precise moment a beha...(展开全部)

What is literature? What is the quality in a text that leads a reader to call it 'literary'? What is the 'certain way' of reading that calls into being the literary potential of a text? Why have we been unable to definitively answer these questions, and where does that leave us? Derek Attridge argues that the impossibility of definition leaves us at a beginning. From the point ...(展开全部)

The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in ameliorating the lives of those existing in harsh circumstances. However, as Derek Attridge argues in this outstanding and acclaimed ...(展开全部)

What is literature? What is the quality in a text that leads a reader to call it 'literary'? What is the 'certain way' of reading that calls into being the literary potential of a text? Why have we been unable to definitively answer these questions, and where does that leave us? Derek Attridge argues that the impossibility of definition leaves us at a beginning. From the point ...(展开全部)