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)

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)

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)

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。

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)

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.

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)

The New York Times bestseller: sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!" —funny, poignant, instructive. One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman’s last literary legacy, which...(展开全部)

你管別人怎麼想 你想知道高居暢銷書排行榜的書是如何有意思嗎？《你管別人怎麼想》一書與《別鬧了，費曼先生》齊名，是透過科學奇才費曼博士一生精彩事蹟的另一門徑。 本書包含兩大部分，第一部分談及費曼的父親與眾不同的教育方式，與第一任妻子的生死摯愛、相互提攜，與第三任妻子的相知相惜，以及費曼在生活、藝術個方面的種種觀察和投入。第二部分談到費曼此生的最後一次探險－參與美國「挑戰者號」太空梭失事原因調查，清晰的呈現出一位傑出科學家寬廣的視界和特別的思考方式。 《紐約時報》稱許本書：「具體描寫了費曼的真實面：他不只是森巴鼓手、獵豔高手、開玩笑的專家，更是個性情中人－有時還頗為麻煩。最重要的，他對科學的價值與局限之深沉思考，遠勝過你我。」