《世界为何存在》Why Does the World Exist: An Existential Detective Story 一部引人入胜的记叙，追寻了人类理解宇宙起源的最新推论 在人类面对的所有谜团当中，最深奥也最挥之不去的一个，就是存在的奥祕。为什么会有宇宙存在，我们又为什么会是这个宇宙的一部分？为什么会有东西，而不是什么都没有？ 数百年来，从柏拉图与莱布尼兹乃至海德格与维根斯坦的各大思想家都对这个谜团感到懊恼又着迷。今天，这个谜更成为宗教信徒与新无神论者激烈争论的议题，前者主张只有上帝假说能够为这个谜提出真正的解答，后者——诸如霍金、道金斯与希钧斯——则是坚称单靠科学就足以解释我们的宇宙如何出现：也许是诞生自虚空中的量子起伏。 在《世界为何存在？》里，吉姆．霍尔特扮演了宇宙侦探的角色，探索为存在奥祕提出解释的各种新颖甚至怪异的角度。他追寻终...(展开全部)

In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times. Whether framed philosophically as “Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?” or more colloquially as “But, Mommy, who made God?” the metaphysical mystery about how we came into existence remains the most fractious and fascinating question of...(展开全部)

Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to exist. He questions the idea that there is a world that encompasses everything like a container life, the universe, and everyth...(展开全部)

From Mappa Mundi to Myst - the bestselling "Just My Type" author turns his gaze to maps. Maps have the most amazing stories - and Simon Garfield is the perfect author to tell them. This is a book that will inspire mapophiles but engage even those of us who stare blankly at an OS pathfinder's hieroglyphs. Just as Garfield found the magic in fonts, here he creates compelling narr...(展开全部)

From Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész comes this riveting novel about a torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed. Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, using them to narrate his involvemen...(展开全部)

As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality. Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torture...(展开全部)

‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution. His charge? Multiple counts of murder; the murder of those disappeared by the state. Bereft of authority, and unable to avoid the consequences of his actions any longer, Martens tu...(展开全部)

作者 菲利普•鲍尔：科普作家，毕业于牛津大学化学专业，并取得了布里斯托大学物理学博士学位，现定居伦敦。习作常见于《自然》（Nature）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《纽约时报》（New York Times）、《卫报》（the Guardian）和《新政治家》（New Statesman）。身为英国皇家化学学会（Royal Society of Chemistry）的一员, 菲利普也供职于《化学世界》（Chemistry World）编辑委员会。菲利普撰写了多部脍炙人口的科普读物，并曾在2005喜获该年度的安万特科学奖。 译者 李祖凰：一只献身科普的小白兔，喜欢借阅读拓展视野，更常出没与山野间体味自然的美丽。4年21世纪前沿学科生命科学的浸染外加3年爬雪山过矿井的区系研究磨砺，毕业后却摇身一变任职BBC Knowledge 中国版《...(展开全部)

Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they have and what others have, as opposed simply to wanting to be better off. This book examines six such reasons. Inequality can b...(展开全部)

From one of the founding executives of Fed Ex comes the first full inside story of how Fed Ex came to be one of the world's most successful, innovative, and admired companies. Frock reveals the details of how the company was conceived, launched, and kept afloat despite incredible obstacles.