An eminent teacher and writer explores an idea both simple and complex, both multidisciplinary and unifying--the story of symmetry. At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this rem...(展开全部)

An eminent mathematician and writer explores an idea both simple and complex, both multidisciplinary and unifying--the story of symmetry. Hidden in the heart of the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, and modern cosmology lies one idea: symmetry. Symmetry has been a key concept for artists, architects, and musicians for centuries, but as a mathematical p...(展开全部)

An eminent teacher and writer explores an idea both simple and complex, both multidisciplinary and unifying--the story of symmetry. At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this rem...(展开全部)

An eminent mathematician and writer explores an idea both simple and complex, both multidisciplinary and unifying--the story of symmetry. Hidden in the heart of the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, and modern cosmology lies one idea: symmetry. Symmetry has been a key concept for artists, architects, and musicians for centuries, but as a mathematical p...(展开全部)

The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young na...(展开全部)

作者简介： 汤姆·菲利普斯（Tom Phillips），出生于伦敦，幽默作家兼记者。现任英国独立事实核查机构“全然事实”(Full Fact)的编辑，曾于剑桥大学攻读考古学与人类学专业，曾任新闻网站“巴兹费德”（BuzzFeed）英国版主编。著有《愚蠢的人类》(HUMANS：A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW WE F**KED IT ALL UP)，行销全球三十多个国家。 译者简介: 李立丰，吉林大学法学院刑法学教授，博士生导师。译有《海盗、囚徒与麻风病人：关于正义的十二堂课》《电流大战：爱迪生、威斯汀豪斯与人类技术标准之争》《罪与罚：关于公正的19场激辩》《九州大学活体解剖事件：七十年后的真相》《黑帮的逻辑：帮派治理美国监狱秘辛》《失去的三十年：日本经济神话的破灭》等多部作品。 范佳妮，吉林延边人。英国胡弗汉顿大学计算机语言学硕士，目前...(展开全部)

For millennia, the field of natural history promoted a knowledgeable and unifying view of the world. In contrast, the modern rise of narrow scientific disciplines has promoted a dichotomy between nature and culture on the one hand and between scientific and folk knowledge on the other. Drawing on the fields of anthropology, history, and environmental science, Michael R. Dove ar...(展开全部)

For millennia, the field of natural history promoted a knowledgeable and unifying view of the world. In contrast, the modern rise of narrow scientific disciplines has promoted a dichotomy between nature and culture on the one hand and between scientific and folk knowledge on the other. Drawing on the fields of anthropology, history, and environmental science, Michael R. Dove ar...(展开全部)

Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and natural selection processes that have created all other life on Earth. Bertness follows the evolutionary process from the primordial...(展开全部)

保罗·利科（Paul Ricoeur，1913—2005），法国著名哲学家、当代最重要的解释学家之一。曾任法国斯特拉斯堡大学（strasbourg）教授、巴黎大学（Sorbonne）教授、朗泰尔（Nanterres）大学教授，并为美国芝加哥大学、耶鲁大学、加拿大蒙特利尔大学等大学客座教授。2004年11月，被美国国会图书馆授予有人文领域的诺贝尔奖之称的“克鲁格奖”。 姜志辉，男，1955年生，复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院心理学系的副教授。著名的争议译者，因其从法语、英语翻译出的大量的政治、哲学、心理学学术著作中的译文错误而受到部分读者的批评。