《分子系统发生学》是应用分子数据重建系统发生关系的学科。本教材全面系统地论述了分子系统发生学的基础、原理、方法及应用。由18章组成，可以归纳为五大部分：第一部分包括第1～3章，分别介绍了系统发生和系统树的基本知识；第二部分包括第4～7章，是分子系统发生分析的基础，其中第4章和第5章是分子系统发生学的信息学基础，第6章是数据集系统发生信号评估，第7章讨论了分子进化模型及模型选择原理与方法；第三部分中的第8～12章是各种系统发生分析方法，分别就目前主要的系统发生分析方法（距离矩阵法、简约法、最大似然法、贝叶斯推论法和系统发生网络法等）从原理、软件操作、应用及局限性等方面进行了详细的介绍，第13章讨论了系统发生假设检验的原理和方法，第14章讨论了系统发生分析可靠性与影响因素；第四部分主要涉及各类数据集分析策略，其中第15章总结了不同类型数据的分析策略，第16章对复杂数据系统发生的分析策略与方法进行了详细地介绍，第17章是多基因数据分析策略和方法；最后一部分即第18章是系统树的可视化、注释与应用方面的内容。
《分子系统发生学》可作为生物学、生物技术、生态学和生物信息学专业的本科生、研究生及科研人员学习分子系统发生学的教材或参考资料。

- Presents the life's work of a Nobel Laureate and internationally recognised leader in the field
- Builds new bridges between physics and biology
- Provides a physical basis for Darwin's principle of natural selection
- Presents a new theory of information including semantics
This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences. It starts with the "strange" physics of matter, including particle physics, atomic physics and quantum mechanics, cosmology, relativity and their consequences (Chapter I), and it continues by describing the properties of material systems that are best understood by statistical and phase-space concepts (Chapter II). These lead to entropy and to the classical picture of quantitative information, initially devoid of value and meaning (Chapter III). Finally, "information space" and dynamics within it are introduced as a basis for semantics (Chapter IV), leading to an exploration of life and thought as new problems in physics (Chapter V).
Dynamic equations - again of a strange (but very general) nature - bring about the complex familiarity of the world we live in. Surprising new results in the life sciences open our eyes to the richness of physical thought, and they show us what can and what cannot be explained by a Darwinian approach. The abstract physical approach is applicable to the origins of life, of meaningful information and even of our universe.

Most designers know that yellow text presented against a blue background reads clearly and easily, but how many can explain why, and what really are the best ways to help others and ourselves clearly see key patterns in a bunch of data?
This book explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visualization of improved clarity, utility, and persuasiveness. The book offers practical guidelines that can be applied by anyone: interaction designers, graphic designers of all kinds (including web designers), data miners, and financial analysts.
*First work to use the science of perception to help serious designers and analysts optimize understanding and perception of their data visualizations.
* Major revision of this classic work, with a new chapter on visual thinking, new sections on face perception and flow visualization, and a much expanded chapter on color and color sequences.
*New to this edition is the full color treatment throughout, to better display over 400 illustrations.

Today scientific, technological and cultural knowledge is shared worldwide. The extent to which globalized knowledge also existed in the past is an open question and, moreover, a question that is important for understanding present processes of globalization. This book, the first volume of the series "Studies" of the "Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge," the result of an interdisciplinary cooperation launched in 2007 by a Dahlem Conference, offers surprising answers to this question.
Long-distance and intercontinental connections with an attendant spread of knowledge are as old as Homo sapiens themselves. Since its inception, the globalization of knowledge has been a process with its own dynamics, interfering significantly with other processes of intercultural transmission. The four parts of this volume address historical phases in which the production, transmission and transformation of knowledge were crucial for advancing these processes. Part 1 investigates a series of processes in the very early phases of globalization, from the transmission of practical knowledge to the emergence of science. Part 2 explores how knowledge was disseminated as a consequence of the spread of power and belief structures. Part 3 deals with the encounters between culturally specific knowledge and globalized knowledge. Part 4 is dedicated to the globalization of modern science and to the great challenges, such as energy supply and climate change, that humanity faces when dealing with knowledge today
The 97th Dahlem Workshop:
The present volume is based on the 97th Dahlem Workshop on Globalization of Knowledge and its Consequences, Berlin, 18–23 November 2007, coordinated by Katharina Ochse.
Participants:
Ian Baldwin, Angelo Baracca, Fabio Bevilacqua, Maria Emilia Beyer, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Gianluca Bocchi, István M. Bodnár, Jens Erland Braarvig, Chiara Brambilla, Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jacob Dahl, Peter Damerow, Hansjörg Dilger, Kostas Gavroglu, Matteo Gerlini, Denise Gimpel, Gerd Graßhoff, Hans Falk Hoffmann, Dirk Hofäcker, Jarita C. Holbrook, Malcolm D. Hyman, Birgit Krawietz, Manfred Krebernik, Joachim Kurtz, Manolis Patiniotis, Albert Presas I Puig, Daniel T. Potts, Dhruv Raina, Jürgen Renn, Richard Rottenburg, Dagmar Schäfer, Matthias Schemmel, Mark Schiefsky, Meredith Schuman, Gebhard J. Selz, Martina Siebert, Circe Mary Silva da Silva, Ana Simões, Tzveta Sofronieva, Saran Solongo, Karin Tybjerg, Hans Ulrich Vogel, Milena Wazeck, Gerhard Wolf, Harriet T. Zurndorfer

Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace-but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as "The Mathematical Theory of Communication", published originally as a paper on communication theory in the "Bell System Technical Journal" more than fifty years ago. Republished in book form shortly thereafter, it has since gone through four hardcover and sixteen paperback printings. It is a revolutionary work, astounding in its foresight and contemporaneity. The University of Illinois Press is pleased and honored to issue this commemorative reprinting of a classic.

《古代哲学中的信息、系统、复杂性思想:希腊·中国·印度》中写到人类古代浩繁的哲学文献恰如一座全息蕴涵人类古老智慧的思想宝库。其中既有泥土沙石，也有珍珠美玉。当人们从不同的角度、运用不同的方法对其进行挖掘和解读时，便可能会得出十分不同的意见和结论。《古代哲学中的信息、系统、复杂性思想:希腊·中国·印度》所做的工作，是作者从一个特定的角度、运用一种特定的方法对人类古代哲学文献中蕴涵的部分思想的再挖掘和再阐释。

本书主要内容包括现代汉语短语的句法语义范畴体系，现代汉语短语结构规则的形式化描述，现代汉语短语结构歧义格式的类型分析及排歧策略研究等三个方面。

本书的目标是，运用网络经济中的经济学知识，从经济研究和作者自己的经验中提取出适合信息相关产业的经理们的知识。本书描述的思想、概念、模型和思考方法会帮助读者作出更好的决策。

《用计算的观点看世界》把哲学问题置于当前科学前言领域的成果和思想的大视野中来讲述，带领读者浏览并欣赏科学前沿园地中正在盛开的"计算主义"之花，一种新的认识世界的方式——计算机的世界观。我们已经习惯于认为科学地能够解答我们的许多疑惑和问题，但是有些问题依然存在，关于宇宙、世界、时空、信息、进化、生命、心智……的问题。

今天，我们被大量的信息淹没了：传真、电子邮件、各种新闻、消息和铺天盖地的广告，正如人们以前预示的那样：出现了一个令人鼓舞的信息时代，媒体专家兼网络评论员戴维·申克透过这些繁荣的表象，揭示了大量的无用的信息对我们造成的干扰，或者说，“信息烟尘”对我们个人的健康（包括精神上的和肉体上的）及对社会造成的极大危害。这《信息烟尘：在信息爆炸中求生存》宣告了“信息时代”神话的破灭。

封面图片为英国伯明翰塞尔福瑞吉百货大楼，其极具线条感的轮廓外型优美，犹如水波的流动。其外表悬挂了1.5万个铝碟，创造出一种极具现代气息的纹理装饰效果，有如夜空下水流的波光粼粼，闪烁于月光之下，使建筑的商业氛围表现到极致。设计该建筑的英国“未来系统建筑事物所”，将商场内部围合成一个顶部采光的中庭，配以交叉的自动扶梯，使购物环境呈现出一种凝聚的向心力和商业广告的展示效应。作为英国第二商业城市伯明翰的建筑地标，人们称该建筑为“未来的百货商店”。因其设计构思的前卫性，该建筑获得2004年英国皇家建筑学会的“建筑设计奖”和2004年“英国皇家工艺美术委员会奖”等多个奖项。
本书从计算机科学领域的角度出发，介绍了信息检索的基础知识，并对当前信息检索的发展做了回顾，重点介绍了搜索引擎的核心技术，如文档分类和文档聚类问题，以及机器学习和数值计算方法。书中所有重要的思想都用示例进行了解释，生动形象，引人入胜，实现了理论与实战的完美结合。
本书的三位作者均是信息检索领域的顶级专家，两位来自学术教育界，一位来自硅谷业界，使本书既具备深厚的理论基础，又代表了尖端科技水准。因此，该书甫一出版，即被奉为该领域的权威著作，备受瞩目。目前已被众多世界名校采用为信息检索课程的教材。

本书是英国剑桥大学卡文迪许实验室的著名学者David J．C．MacKay博士总结多年教学经验和科研成果，于2003年推出的一部力作。本书作者不仅透彻地论述了传统信息论的内容和最新编码算法，而且以高度的学科驾驭能力，匠心独具地在一个统一框架下讨论了贝叶斯数据建模、蒙特卡罗方法、聚类算法、神经网络等属于机器学习和推理领域的主题，从而很好地将诸多学科的技术内涵融会贯通。本书注重理论与实际的结合，内容组织科学严谨，反映了多门学科的内在联系和发展趋势。同时，本书还包含了丰富的例题和近400道习题(其中许多习题还配有详细的解答)，便于教学或自学，适合作为信息科学与技术相关专业高年级本科生和研究生教材，对相关专业技术人员也不失为一本有益的参考书。...