《有限地地球时代的怀疑:未来的世界是垃圾做的吗?》收集了作者关于全球化、现代化、工业文明、传统的价值等问题的文章，从科学哲学及科学史的角度出发，通过若干具体的案例，对当下以科学技术为核心的工业文明进行了反思，对于当下大众话语中的一些流行观念进行了解构，并对传统的价值进行了重估。

“一石激起千层浪”！自1994年初版以来，《高级迷信》一书一直是舆论界经久不衰且爱恨纠缠的焦点，引发了自然科学家、社会科学家、人文学者们广泛参与的“科学大战”。
《高级迷信：学术左派及其关于科学的争论 》是首次将各种“科学批评”的视角与观点集结在_二起“示众”的宣传画廊。其中涉及许多严肃而又深刻的学术问题：如何看待科学的价值与社会功能?科学精神与科学方法的精髓是什么?科学权威的来源与合理性何在？

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős is a 1993 documentary directed by George Paul Csicsery about the life of mathematician Paul Erdős.
Erdős himself appears in the film. As of 2007, using the official cast list in the credits, it gives Erdős a Bacon number (and thus Erdős-Bacon number) of 4. However, Sir Alec Guinness, identified by name by the narrator, appears in the film, getting an honorary doctorate with Erdős; his presence would give Erdős a Bacon number of 3. Since Frost/Nixon was released in late 2008, Erdős has a Bacon number of 3 through official credits.

神经科学在自然探索、临床治疗、智能技术以至社会生活等方面都具有重要意义，因而受到了越来越多的关注。本书全面阐述了目前神经科学在大脑的演化来源、发育过程、神经元网络功能运作、脑疾病与衰老、神经药物和神经调控技术等方面的理解，结合神经科学发展的历史，深入分析和探讨了神经科学和一般的生物学研究中若干基本的哲学问题，特别是深入讨论了神经药物和神经调控技术将会对社会生活和伦理造成的种种影响以及科学家和一般民众所应持有的态度。作为近十年来欧美出版的神经科学普及读物中最为深刻的一种，本书可以给高年级大学生、研究生以及其他领域的科研工作者作为神经科学的入门读物，也是对神经科学感兴趣的其他读者的恰当选择。

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him.
The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.
From the Hardcover edition.

所有的人都害怕疼痛，所有人都怀疑自己是否有能力忍受疼痛，所有人都经历过疼痛并被它所困扰。在本书中，帕特里克·沃尔，疼痛领域顶尖科学家之一，告诉我们关于精神和肉体疼痛的原因和结果的最新生物学发现。他还全面评价了治疗疼痛的可能办法——从药物到外科手术、放松疗法、针灸、草药。
全书读来轻松自如，可以使读者了解许多应该了解、并不了解而又有趣的事情。

Statistics lectures have been a source of much bewilderment and frustration for generations of students. This book attempts to remedy the situation by expounding a logical and unified approach to the whole subject of data analysis.
This text is intended as a tutorial guide for senior undergraduates and research students in science and engineering. After explaining the basic principles of Bayesian probability theory, their use is illustrated with a variety of examples ranging from elementary parameter estimation to image processing. Other topics covered include reliability analysis, multivariate optimization, least-squares and maximum likelihood, error-propagation, hypothesis testing, maximum entropy and experimental design.
The Second Edition of this successful tutorial book contains a new chapter on extensions to the ubiquitous least-squares procedure, allowing for the straightforward handling of outliers and unknown correlated noise, and a cutting-edge contribution from John Skilling on a novel numerical technique for Bayesian computation called 'nested sampling'.

《最年轻的科学:一个医学观察者的手记(汉英对照)》是刘易斯·托马斯的第三《最年轻的科学:一个医学观察者的手记(汉英对照)》，是他对于西方现代医学的发展史所作的最切近、最全面的观察。他看他父亲行医，自己学医，做实习医生，随军，做医生，研究，领导科研和教学，参与城市卫生管理与规划，服务于总统科学顾问委员会，观察大学、研究所和医院，体察护士的工作和生涯，甚至还受过伤、生过病。对于今天预备做医生的人，托马斯是无法取代，不可错过的。没有他，你的专业教育将是不完整、缺乏高度的。托马斯是不可方物，无以名之的。他是一个医生、病理学家、教育家、行政官员、诗人和散文家。一个人，如果兼作上述这些行当，他就是任何这些行当所不能局限和定义的。换句话说，如果他是这些，他就同时又不是这些。那就意味着，他已经达到了这样一个高度，他的话，是对于人类有着普遍意义的，即使在他谈论着高度专门的题目时，也是这样。

《发育原理》(第2版)简明扼要，概括性强，每章用不长的篇幅既系统阐述了发育原理又重点介绍了必要概念；选用了大量图解配合有关章节内容形象地解释发育原理和重要概念，并精心撰写了各章节的小结附于其后，对主要内容的展示起到了画龙点睛的作用；在编排体系上，内容衔接逻辑性强，因而易于讲授与学习；书后附有重要的术语，便于诀者对这些关键性概念的检索和理解。

Molecular Biology of the Cell is the classic in-depth text reference in cell biology. By extracting the fundamental concepts from this enormous and ever-growing field, the authors tell the story of cell biology, and create a coherent framework through which non-expert readers may approach the subject. Written in clear and concise language, and beautifully illustrated, the book is enjoyable to read, and it provides a clear sense of the excitement of modern biology. Molecular Biology of the Cell sets forth the current understanding of cell biology (completely updated as of Autumn 2001), and it explores the intriguing implications and possibilities of the great deal that remains unknown.
The hallmark features of previous editions continue in the Fourth Edition. The book is designed with a clean and open, single-column layout. The art program maintains a completely consistent format and style, and includes over 1,600 photographs, electron micrographs, and original drawings by the authors. Clear and concise concept headings introduce each section. Every chapter contains extensive references. Most important, every chapter has been subjected to a rigorous, collaborative revision process where, in addition to incorporating comments from expert reviewers, each co-author reads and reviews the other authors' prose. The result is a truly integrated work with a single authorial voice.</P>

Burgeoning advancements in brain science are opening up new perspectives on how we acquire knowledge. Indeed, it is now possible to explore consciousness—the very center of human concern—by scientific means. In this illuminating book, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman offers a new theory of knowledge based on striking scientific findings about how the brain works. And he addresses the related compelling question: Does the latest research imply that all knowledge can be reduced to scientific description?
Edelman’s brain-based approach to knowledge has rich implications for our understanding of creativity, of the normal and abnormal functioning of the brain, and of the connections among the different ways we have of knowing. While the gulf between science and the humanities and their respective views of the world has seemed enormous in the past, the author shows that their differences can be dissolved by considering their origins in brain functions. He foresees a day when brain-based devices will be conscious, and he reflects on this and other fascinating ideas about how we come to know the world and ourselves.

本书是国内第一部从哲学和社会学角度对人体特异功能、伪科学等现象进行深入探讨的著作。在汉语中，“伪科学”有相当的贬义，在论战中争论各方均想把它贴到对方身上。主流社会认为科学是PC的（政治上正确的），而伪科学和反科学是非PC的（政治上不正确的）。但是关键是，谁控制着话语权，谁在中心谁在边缘。真科学有时被打成伪科学，假科学有时冒充真科学。作者将所有不被当时主流科学界或政府所认可的声称的科学称之为类科学(alternative　science）。类科学当中可能有真正的科学，当然也包含大量伪科学和江湖骗术。本书回顾了从1979年开始的人体特异功能研究，从科学哲学和科学知识社会学角度分析了划界问题，并对中国类科学进行了分类。最后还对学院型类科学和民间数学爱好者进行了案例探讨。

Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But, in "Atoms and Alchemy", William R. Newman - a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy - exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origins of the Scientific Revolution. Tracing the alchemical roots of Robert Boyle's famous mechanical philosophy, Newman shows that alchemy contributed to the mechanization of nature, a movement that lay at the very heart of scientific discovery. Boyle and his predecessors - figures like the mysterious medieval Geber or the Lutheran professor Daniel Sennert - provided convincing experimental proof that matter is made up of enduring particles at the microlevel. At the same time, Newman argues that alchemists created the operational criterion of an "atomic" element as the last point of analysis, thereby contributing a key feature to the development of later chemistry. "Atoms and Alchemy" thus provokes a refreshing debate about the origins of modern science and will be welcomed - and deliberated - by all who are interested in the development of scientific theory and practice.

神经元（神经细胞）是构成神经系统的基石，对神经元各个方面的深入、彻底的理解对于我们从各个层次对神经系统进行分析都是十分必要的。本书论述神经细胞的形态学、生物化学、生物物理学基础知识，这些知识正迎合了相关专业的大学生、研究生、科研人员的需要。
2000年诺贝尔生理医学奖获得者Eric R.Kandel盛赞此书：“凭着对神经生理学的独到的、富有创见的阐述，这本书填补了一个亟需填补的空白。
行文清晰，尤其是插图经过了精心设计，图示精美。
每一章的编写才均为该令域的权威和学科带头人。
被专家誉为“神经科学家书架上的必备书”。

《神经科学的历史发展和思考》系统地回顾人类认识脑和神经功能的历史，介绍推动脑研究的著名学者的贡献，着重勾画当代脑科学的成长历程。作者通过对历史脉络的梳理，阐述对于神经科学发展的认识和思考，启迪读者在了解过去的基础上把握神经科学的现状与未来，由此摸索揭秘大脑“黑匣子”的方法和途径。
《神经科学的历史发展和思考》主要由中国科学院院士、神经生理学家陈宜张教授撰写，中国科学院院士杨雄里、吴建屏、段树民以及中科院动物研究所的郭郛研究员参与撰写了部分内容。

《超弦理论(第1卷)》由世界图书出版公司北京公司和剑桥大学出版社合作出版。《超弦理论(第1卷)》任何部分之文字及图片，未经出版者书面许可，不得用任何方式抄袭、节录或翻印。

Recent years have brought a revival of work on string theory, which has been a source of fascination since its origins nearly twenty years ago.There seems to be a widely perceived need for a systematic, pedagogical exposition of the present state of knowledge about string theory. We hope that this book will help to meet this need. To give a comprehensive account of such a vast topic as string theory would scarcely be possible,even in two volumes with the length to which these have grown. Indeed,we have had to omit many important subjects, while treating others only sketchily. String field theory is omitted entirely (though the subject of chapter 11 is closely related to light-cone string field theory). Conformal field theory is not developed systematically, though much of the background material needed to understand recent papers on this subject is presented in chapter 3 and elsewhere.

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event. Scientific methods, he suggests, were originally devised as techniques for ameliorating the cognitive damage wrought by human sin. At its inception, modern science was conceptualized as a means of recapturing the knowledge of nature that Adam had once possessed. Contrary to a widespread view that sees science emerging in conflict with religion, Harrison argues that theological considerations were of vital importance in the framing of the scientific method.

《计算机视觉:一种现代方法(第2版)(英文版)》内容简介：计算机视觉是研究如何使人工系统从图像或多维数据中"感知"的科学。《计算机视觉:一种现代方法(第2版)(英文版)》是计算机视觉领域的经典教材，内容涉及几何摄像模型、光照和着色、色彩、线性滤波、局部图像特征、纹理、立体相对、运动结构、聚类分割、组合与模型拟合、追踪、配准、平滑表面与骨架、距离数据、图像分类、对象检测与识别、基于图像的建模与渲染、人形研究、图像搜索与检索、优化技术等内容。与前一版相比，《计算机视觉:一种现代方法(第2版)(英文版)》简化了部分主题，增加了应用示例，重写了关于现代特性的内容，详述了现代图像编辑技术与对象识别技术。