约翰·布里格斯、F.戴维·皮特所著的《湍鉴(浑沌理论与整体性科学导引)》系“ISIS文库·科学与时尚系列”之一，堪称“爱丽丝漫游”非线性科学、复杂性科学“奇境”的史话。作者借助庄子、老子、列子的浑沌和整体性思想，利用紊乱之镜鉴“湍鉴”鉴照神话、童话、诗歌、绘画、小说、艺术、哲学，探讨秩序与浑沌“剪不断、理还乱”之关系，提出老套的还原论科学终将被“紊变与整体性科学”的新范式所取代。非线性、不规则性、不稳定性、不可预测性无处不在，相空间、吸引子、庞加莱猜想、卡姆理论、分形几何栩栩如生，突变、协同、耗散结构、超循环、迭代、反馈、分岔、孤波等概念深入浅出，普里高津、玻姆、马古利斯等“科学异教徒”勇往直前。全书的篇章结构设计，爱丽丝与黄帝互鉴，亦不落俗套，当为一奇。

本书的目标，是要从后现代，或者也许更精确地说是从后结构(post-struct ural)的视角来阐明复杂性概念。从这种视角获得的最明显的结论是，不存在总揽一切的、可忽略掉复杂系统中偶发性方面的复杂性理论。如果某事物的确是复杂的，就不可能从简单理论得到恰当的描述。关注复杂性，必须关注特定的复杂系统。尽管如此，我们还是可以在非常基础的层面上，对复杂行为和复杂系统动力学的条件进行一般性说明。而且我还认为，可以对复杂系统进行建模。模型可以在计算上执行，并可能导致可以执行更复杂任务的机器。不过，模型本身将至少与被建模的系统同样复杂，因此不可能导致我们对于系统本身理解的任何简化。作为这种模型的一个例子，我广泛地使用了神经网络，即一种称作联结论的趋法。事实上本书通过指出神经网络的运行与德里达的语言工作的描述之间具有结构相似性，来理解后现代理论对于复杂性研究的意义。

复杂性科学是可与相对论、量子力学媲美的20世纪重大科学突破之一。在某种意义上，复杂性对整个科学体系的影响，也许比后两者更深刻、更广泛。进入21世纪，探索和理解复杂性，依然受到自然、社会、人文等各学科的共同关注。德国著名哲学家、复杂性科学专家克劳斯o迈因策尔教授的这本名著已出至第五版，它从哲学的高度，广泛涉猎物理学、生命科学、认知科学、计算机科学、经济学、社会学等诸多方面，揭示了不同学科体现出的共同的复杂性特征，以详尽而不失之繁琐的例证，和严谨而又尽可能通俗的笔法，阐释了对复杂性的探索将如何引起人们思维方式的深刻变化。
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本书是软件思想家温伯格 的非凡之作。温伯格作为美国计算机名人堂代表人物，先后著有30多部图书，内容涵盖整个软件开发周期。他的拥趸遍天下，他的书也被奉为必读经典。
这是一本带你读懂思维 的旷世经典，简明的语言，简单的代数，清晰阐明了认识各种项目、产品和组织等系统的新方法。
这是一本极易上手 的思维指南，富有启发性的举例说明、贴切的章后问答与练习，为你提供了面对问题、系统和解决方案时最强大的分析工具。
这是一本适合极广泛人群 阅读的书。无论是科学家、工程师、医生、学生，还是各类组织的领导者、管理者，抑或基层员工，都可以通过本书驱散思考的层层迷雾。

《数学桥:对高等数学的一次观赏之旅》是一本独一无二的数学书。它不是教科书，也不是普及书，而是一本介于这两者之间的“普及性教科书”。它以高中数学为起点，用一种娓娓道来、徐徐展开的方式，向你展示大学数学中的核心内容和亮点，让你欣赏许多令人惊叹的结果，领略它们的自然之美和实用价值。《数学桥:对高等数学的一次观赏之旅》好比一座数学桥，它帮你从以重复性解题操练为基础的高中数学，平安顺利地过渡到以系统性思想探究为主旨的高等数学。如果你即将或正在学习高等数学，那么《数学桥:对高等数学的一次观赏之旅》将是你学习道路上的好伴侣；如果你已经学完了高等数学，那么不妨也来浏览一下，你很可能会说：“哎呀，原来是这么回事！”

本书将两千多年的数学发展历程融为十二章内容，每章都包含了三个基本组成部分，即历史背景、人物传记以及在这些“数学杰作”中所表现出的创造性。作者精心挑选了一些杰出的数学家及其所创造的伟大定理，如欧几里得、阿基米德、牛顿和欧拉。而这一个个伟大的定理，不仅串起了历史的年轮，更是串起了数学这门学科所涵盖的各个深邃而不乏实用性的领域。当然，这不是一本典型的数学教材，而是一本大众读物，它会让热爱数学的人体会到绝处逢生的喜悦，让讨厌数学的人从此爱上数学。

这是第二次世界大战后最有影响力的政治学著作之一。《决策的本质》原作以独特的视角审视了冷战时期的关键事件。此经典著作的第二版不仅仅是修订，更是重写：重新解释了古巴导弹危机前后的理论及事件；也融入了肯尼迪录音带及最近解密的苏联文件的信息。第二版提炼了原著中格雷厄姆·阿利森任美国助理国防部长及哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院院长时期的一些评论和观点。同时也有一位新的作者菲利普·泽利科参与了第二版的撰写，他著有十分畅销的评论著作《肯尼迪录音带》(The Kennedy Tapes，Harvard University Press，1 997)。 《决策的本质》(第二版)鲜活地展现了重压之下的决策过程，此书也是唯一一部尝试解决这一经久不衰的问题的著作：人们如何理解政府的举动?

This fully revised text provides an understandable, clear overview of the psychology of language. Using an information-processing approach, Carroll brings the current developments and controversies in psycholinguistics to students in an engaging style and sets them in historical context. Functional in its approach, it fills the need for an up-to-date and clearly written treatment of the field. It gives students a balanced look at the subject. He includes an evenhanded and consistent discussion from both camps within the psycholinguistics field- both the cognitive side and the developmental side of research-to give students a comprehensive overview. HIGHLIGHTS provides students with excellent preparatory material for the more indepth chapters that follow uses everyday examples throughout the book, and fundamental questions are approached from a variety of perspectives, including different theoretical positions, various research strategies and classical versus more contemporary research examines current controversies on an issue-by-issue basis, and the author explores which theoretical orientation to each issue is best supported by research gives new information on non-alphabetic orthographies revises the section on Memory for Discourse to include emphasis on verbatim propositional and situational representation includes a new discussion on aphasias in the biologicao foundations of language

强力推荐：Psychology of Language 英文原版火热发售

This manual offers practical advice on the fundamentals of research to college and university students in all fields of study. The Craft of Research teaches much more than the mechanics of fact gathering: it explains how to approach a research project as an analytical process. The authors chart every stage of research, from finding a topic and generating research questions about it to marshalling evidence, constructing arguments, and writing everything up in a final report that is a model of authority. Their advice is designed for use by both beginners and seasoned practitioners, and for projects from class papers to dissertations.
This book is organized into four parts. Part One is a spirited introduction to the distinctive nature, values, and protocols of research. Part Two demystifies the art of discovering a topic. It outlines a wide range of sources, among them personal interests and passions. Parts Three and Four cover the essentials of argument—how to make a claim and support it—and ways to outline, draft, revise, rewrite, and polish the final report. Part Three is a short course in the logic, structure, uses, and common pitfalls of argumentation. The writing chapters in Part Four show how to present verbal and visual information effectively and how to shape sentences and paragraphs that communicate with power and precision.
"A well-constructed, articulate reminder of how important fundamental questions of style and approach, such as clarity and precision, are to all research."—Times Literary Supplement

不论在专业机构的研究里，还是大众茶余饭后的谈资中，智商测试是怎么深入人心的？它是怎么从一个小小测试表发展为一项包罗万象的庞大产业，乃至于影响到大众生活以及某些时期的政府政策的？智商测试的本来面目又是什么？……这些问题在本书中都有所解答。
《人类的误测：智商歧视的科学史》是一本对智商测试相关研究的历史脉络及其社会影响进行梳理的科学史著作，作者特别对借助“钟形曲线”理论外衣来合理化自身的“生物决定论”“遗传论”等论调以及背离设计初衷的智商测试的应用现象进行了剖析，列举了大量的事实和论据，对不同人种有等级、优劣之分的不当观点作了严密的反驳和批判。作者通过对身体、颅骨以及智商测量的各种学说和流派的历史性梳理，指出此前的人体测量学和智商测试实际上起到了一种为社会阶层分化提供依据的效果，甚至对国家政策、社会发展产生了不良影响；作者指出背离设计初衷的智商测试不具有完全的科学性，它通过部分经验数据来假定普遍状况，在逻辑起点上就是可疑的，必将导致错误的运用和结果。本书逻辑清晰，论述严密，参证详细，对从事相关科学与学术问题探究的专业学者和对上述问题感兴趣的普通读者都很有帮助。

《科学发现的逻辑》主要讨论知识理论的两个基本问题：划界和归纳问题。作者论证科学与非科学的划界标准不是可证实性而是可证伪性，科学的方法不是归纳法而是演绎检验法。书中提出的有关科学的性质和方法以及科学知识增长的独创性论点，对科学哲学、认识论、逻辑学、方法论以及科学史、自然科学、医学、设计理论、社会科学均有影响。一些著名科学家都认为他的方法符合科学研究的实际。

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years, and it is those very categories, rather than their underlying concepts, that constrain our understanding of how the formal study of nature relates to the religious life.
In The Territories of Science and Religion, Harrison dismantles what we think we know about the two categories, then puts it all back together again in a provocative, productive new way. By tracing the history of these concepts for the first time in parallel, he illuminates alternative boundaries and little-known relations between them—thereby making it possible for us to learn from their true history, and see other possible ways that scientific study and the religious life might relate to, influence, and mutually enrich each other.
A tour de force by a distinguished scholar working at the height of his powers, The Territories of Science and Religion promises to forever alter the way we think about these fundamental pillars of human life and experience.

吉尔莫·德尔·托罗策划、写作，首次公开大量手记、手绘图、藏品，展现自己奇思妙想的大部头收藏本！
詹姆斯·卡梅隆作序，汤姆·克鲁斯作后记！
尼尔·盖曼、约翰·兰迪斯、阿方索·卡隆、亚当·萨维奇、柯奈莉亚·冯克、迈克·米格诺拉等一线作家、演艺工作者为本书撰文！
值得中国电影人、电影迷收藏的重量级作品！它向你展示导演、编剧的奇思妙想转换为电影的过程！
这本书可不是一本普通的艺术图画书，不是影视写真、剧照、幕后图的集合，更不是德尔托罗的电影宣传手册。这本书是展示德尔托罗的大脑如何运转思考的个人秀，这颗大脑像一部精密复杂的机器，细致描绘着它喜欢的电影，试图连接起那些跳跃发散的想象，展示他那骇人但又杰出的创意点子。此外，从书中我们可以见到德尔托罗的大量藏品——仿佛收藏癖遇到暗黑品位艺术家，这些玩意儿正反映了他那光怪陆离的内在、纷乱流溢的思维、情感强烈的心灵。哇噢，这就是德尔托罗。

作为易学家，朱伯崑先生必然要论及“象数”；作为哲学史家，朱先生又必然重视“义理”。朱先生的代表作《易学哲学史》系统而深入地阐述了历代易学家的象数义理，尤其对义理学派和象数学派的哲学研究用力颇深。
象数与义理，是构成《周易》的两大要素，也是研究《周易》的两大学派。历代易学家对《周易》的研究态度和注释方法上各有特色，总的来说可分为象数与义理两派。《四库全书总目》将易学分为两派六宗，两派指象数派、义理派，六宗指占卜宗、禨祥宗、造化宗、老庄宗、儒理宗、史事宗。六宗实际上可归属于两派，占卜、禨祥、造化三宗归属于象数派，老庄、儒理、史事三宗归属于义理派。学术界一般把以抽象、概括的意义解释《周易》的易学流派为义理学派，以具体物象解释《周易》的易学流派为象数学派。从整个易学史发展过程看，两派的互相攻讦一直没有停止。当代学术界对义理学派的研究比较深入，也比较公允；对象数学派的研究则不够深入，也有失公允。
本书的主题是叙述对周易原典的诠释及由此形成的易学理论发展的历史。内容包括从先秦到清朝乾嘉时期。其中以阐明中国的宇宙论和本体论的世界观及其思维方式为主要脉络。本书从经学史的视野阐述中国传统哲学的特色，为中国哲学史的研究开拓一新的领域。

这是一个被称为信息大爆炸的时代。为了在这个时代中生活和工作，人们开始边走路边打手机，边开会边收发电子邮件，边看电视新闻边浏览电脑网页，还要在纷乱嘈杂的环境中一心一意地与人对话、完成手头的工作。对此，许多人有力不从心之感。是不是我们所创造的信息文明已经超出了我们生物性大脑的容量？
Torkel Klingberg，一位认知神经科学领域的学术领袖，在这本权威性的著作中，将关于大脑进化的讨论、神经科学的历史、最前沿的科研方法学、信息理论，以及对神经可塑性的最新见解和关于多种神经发育疾病的全面综述，巧妙地结合在一起，用深入浅出、引人入胜的叙述方式，向读者解释了什么是“超负荷的大脑”，并试图回答：我们大脑处理信息的能力为什么是有限的？这对我们的日常生活有什么影响？我们如何通过脑力锻炼拓展这些极限？

Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. Originally published in 1947 and 1957, these two volumes are themselves a great historical achievement. Volume 1, which abridges the first six volumes of Toynbee's study, includes the Introduction, The Geneses of Civilizations, and The Disintegrations of Civilizations. Volume 2, an abridgement of Volumes VII-X, includes sections on Universal States, Universal churches, Heroic Ages, Ccontacts Between Civilizations in Space, Contacts Between Civilizations in Time, Law and Freedom in History, The Prospects of the Western Civilization, and the Conclusion. Of Somervell's work, Toynbee wrote, "The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer's outlook and purpose."

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees--can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentary number sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. These are but a few of the wealth of fascinating observations contained here. We also discover, for example, that because Chinese names for numbers are so short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time--English-speaking people can only remember seven. The book also explores the unique abilities of idiot savants and mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whose minute brain lesions render their mathematical ability useless. This new and completely updated edition includes all of the most recent scientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons, and which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps most important, The Number Sense reaches many provocative conclusions that will intrigue anyone interested in learning, mathematics, or the mind. "A delight." --Ian Stewart, New Scientist "Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense." --The New York Times Book Review "Dehaene weaves the latest technical research into a remarkably lucid and engrossing investigation. Even readers normally indifferent to mathematics will find themselves marveling at the wonder of minds making numbers." --Booklist

●在漫长的进化史中究竟发生了什么，才造就出独一无二的人类？语言、社会、道德、情感、艺术、意识……这些能力是人类独有的吗？
●开创认知神经科学领域的著名思想家加扎尼加被誉为“脑科学界的斯蒂芬•霍金”。在本书中，他集合多个学科领域的研究成果，对人类本质进行了一场细致而深入的解剖，以生动风趣的语言，将人类引以为豪的大脑中的各种功能一一道来，试图找到让我们变得与祖先截然不同，成为会思考、有感情的人类的关键所在。