From the bestselling author of A Lion in Paris comes this beautifully illustrated celebration of what makes each child unique. Through bold and sensitively observed portraits and a thought-provoking text, Beatrice Alemagna inspires children, and adults reading with them, to consider their own identity. Destined to become a classic, What Is a Child? is a must-have for every scho...(展开全部)

The widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA. Crick describes the experiences that brought him to the field of molecular biology, the failures and frustrations preceding his triumph, and the peculiar distortions that crept into popular accounts of the event. Illustrated.

What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (ISBN 0-06-090613-8) is a controversial work on artificial intelligence, authored by Hubert Dreyfus, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. The book deals with the idea that thought, intelligence or reason can be reduced to computation. After a summary of the idea's history Dreyfus proc...(展开全部)

An exploration into the life and works of a modern mystic, occultist, poet, mountaineer, and bisexual adventurer known to his contemporaries as "The Great Beast" Aleister Crowley was a groundbreaking poet and an iconoclastic visionary whose literary and cultural legacy extends far beyond the limits of his notoriety as a practitioner of the occult arts. Born in 1875 to devout ...(展开全部)

Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces...(展开全部)

弗朗西斯·克里克（1916-2004），20世纪最伟大的生物学家之一。1953年，他与吉姆•沃森合作发现了DNA的双螺旋结构，为此荣膺1962年诺贝尔奖。他对分子生物学的其他贡献还包括：预见了转运RNA的存在，提出了中心法则，领衔破解了遗传密码。后半生转向脑研究，主攻意识问题，并著有《惊人的假说》一书。

洛兰·达斯顿是马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所荣誉院长。她的作品涉猎科学史的诸多话题，包括概率统计史、早期现代科学奇迹、科学事实的出现、科学模型、科学探究的对象、自然的道德权威和科学客观性的历史。近期出版书籍包括《反自然》（Gegen die Natur，2018；英文版，Against Nature, 2019），《档案馆里的科学》（Science in the Archives，2017）和《理性是如何疯掉的》（2014）。 达斯顿目前的研究方向包括规则史、现代性在科学史上的意义、19世纪末以来科学领域的国际治理，以及道德和自然秩序之间的关系。达斯顿获得过辉瑞奖（1989年，《启蒙时期的古代概率论》）和萨顿科学史学会奖章、巴伐利亚科学院谢林奖、格丁根科学院的利钦伯格奖章、比勒费尔德大学卢曼奖，以及普林斯顿大学和希伯来大学荣誉博士学位。2018年，她获得...(展开全部)

The widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA. Crick describes the experiences that brought him to the field of molecular biology, the failures and frustrations preceding his triumph, and the peculiar distortions that crept into popular accounts of the event. Illustrated.

洛兰·达斯顿是马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所荣誉院长。她的作品涉猎科学史的诸多话题，包括概率统计史、早期现代科学奇迹、科学事实的出现、科学模型、科学探究的对象、自然的道德权威和科学客观性的历史。近期出版书籍包括《反自然》（Gegen die Natur，2018；英文版，Against Nature, 2019），《档案馆里的科学》（Science in the Archives，2017）和《理性是如何疯掉的》（2014）。 达斯顿目前的研究方向包括规则史、现代性在科学史上的意义、19世纪末以来科学领域的国际治理，以及道德和自然秩序之间的关系。达斯顿获得过辉瑞奖（1989年，《启蒙时期的古代概率论》）和萨顿科学史学会奖章、巴伐利亚科学院谢林奖、格丁根科学院的利钦伯格奖章、比勒费尔德大学卢曼奖，以及普林斯顿大学和希伯来大学荣誉博士学位。2018年，她获得...(展开全部)