何为宗教？何为科学？宗教阻碍了科学发展吗？科学与宗教果真水火不容吗？“科学”和“宗教”是否适用于一切地域和民族？在讨论所有这些问题之前，首先要弄清楚“科学”与“宗教”概念的含义演变以及它们之间产生关系的前提。作者彼得·哈里森以令人惊叹的渊博学识和清晰思路， 极富原创性地分 析了科学与宗教这两大领地漫长的形成过程，绘制出西方科学与基督教之间关系的一幅令人信服的图景，颠覆了我们对科学与宗教的许多简单化理解。本书代表着科学与宗教领域最新的国际研究成果。
对世界的科学解释根本上是无神论的，但科学为什么偏偏从基督教笼罩的欧洲诞生？科学发展与宗教和道德原来千丝万缕地编织在一起。哈里森的这一部最新研究引领读者深入这些问题和联系。张卜天的译文可靠、流畅。强力推荐。
——陈嘉映，首都师范大学哲学系教授
本书通过严格的历史考证，表明 “科学”与“宗教”概念是晚近三百年的发明，今日关于科学与宗教之关系的论说多数是时代误置，振聋发聩、引人深省！
——吴国盛，北京大学科学史与科学哲学研究中心主任

A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientists.

Brian Cox教授带我们用物理学揭开种种宇宙奇迹的奥秘，阐释人类和宇宙的深邃联系。茫茫宇宙，人类从何而来？宇宙又将走向何处？带着万千的疑问，我们跟随Brian Cox教授一起感受地球上罕见的景观，在这些壮丽的景观背后，隐藏着宇宙的秘密……让我们在欣赏美景的同时，深入了解物理学，逐渐揭开宇宙各种奇迹的神秘面纱，明了了人类与宇宙的深邃联系。
阳光帅哥Brian Cox是一位粒子物理学家，曼彻斯特大学高能物理学教授，英国皇家学会会员，也是瑞士欧洲核物理研究组织(CERN)之大型强子对撞器(LHC)的六大实验参与者之一。但他的成名却是由于近年来常常出现在是BBC科普节目中。BBC曾播出他主持的科教节目的Wonders of the Solar System（《BBC:太阳系的奇迹》）。

A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the James Beard Award for General Cooking and the IACP Cookbook of the Year Award
"The one book you must have, no matter what you’re planning to cook or where your skill level falls."―New York Times Book Review
Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac 'n' cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey (forget about brining!)―and use a foolproof method that works every time?
As Serious Eats's culinary nerd-in-residence, J. Kenji López-Alt has pondered all these questions and more. In The Food Lab, Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don’t work that well, and home cooks can achieve far better results using new―but simple―techniques. In hundreds of easy-to-make recipes with over 1,000 full-color images, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more.
Over 1000 color photographs

★《技术的本质》是复杂性科学奠基人、首屈一指的技术思想家、“熊彼特奖”得主布莱恩•阿瑟所创建的一套关于技术产生和进化的系统性理论，本书是打开“技术黑箱”的钥匙，它用平实的语言将技术最本质的思想娓娓道来。
★技术，是一个异常美丽的主题，它不动声色地创造了我们的财富，成就了经济的繁荣，改变了我们存在的方式。尽管技术如此重要，却少有人在快节奏的生活中停下来深入思考技术。我们了解技术的原理，却不知道它们从何而来。我们深思技术的意义，追问技术到底能否决定人类的历史，但是关于“技术”到底是什么，它是如何形成的，我们并没有达成共识。
★布莱恩•阿瑟对上述问题进行了解答，作者构建了关于技术的理论体系，阐明了技术的本质及其进化机制。《技术的本质》是技术思想领域的开创性作品，它不同于一般的流行读物或学术著作，对于商业创新和经济发展而言都有非凡的意义。布莱恩•阿瑟的思想是硅谷亿万资金运行的基础，如果能够真正读懂本书，不论是普通读者、商业领袖还是学术研究者，都将受益匪浅。

森林大火的蔓延、物种的灭绝、地震的分布、金融市场的起落、战争的爆发，这些事物看似毫无关联，却遵循着同一条简单法则。无论哪个领域，都仿佛一个陡峭的处于动荡边缘的沙堆，只要再来一颗沙粒，就会全面崩塌。究竟哪一颗是致命的沙粒？
几乎令人绝望的是，百年来不停追寻各类灾难源头的科学家、哲学家和历史学家，他们弄错了方向。历史看似有既定的发展模式，未来却不可预测，人们永远无法找到这颗沙粒。世界正处于悬崖之边，只需轻轻一推，灾难就会不期而至，科学仿佛束手无策。
这一结论源自理论物理的研究结果。马克•布查纳将一一介绍这些研究者们特立独行的研究故事，及其出人意料的观点。
读过之后，你就不难理解，为什么大到地震预测，小至天气预报，一切对自然的预测往往只能是后知后觉；为什么有号称完美保护机制的金融市场仍会深陷股灾泥沼。明白这些，你将以更宽容的眼光看待世界。
来吧，让我们一起探寻“科学背后的科学”。

《数字创世纪:人工生命的新科学》对计算机和生物学交叉的前沿科学——人工生命进行了较详细地描述，从人工生命的起源、研究方法、形式、主张等不同方面进行描述，是国内外第一本系统地、全面地阐述人工生命的生命观的著作。系统论述了人工生命思想的产生和发展过程，其中20世纪中后期到现在的发展是《数字创世纪:人工生命的新科学》首次论述的。《数字创世纪:人工生命的新科学》写作规范，各部分之间逻辑联系紧密。虽然《》涉及的科学内容艰深，但由于作者观点明确，深入浅出，论证清晰，因此，《数字创世纪:人工生命的新科学》可读性强，有一定基础的研究者就可以理解。

在整个20世纪，有三项颠覆性的科学概念和技术应用把人类社会引领到新的历史阶段：“原子”的发现带来物理学的革命，“字节”的发现带来互联网的革命，“基因”的发现带来生物学的革命。

基因既是遗传物质的基本单位，也是一切生物信息的基础，破解了基因的运行机制，也就破 解了生命的奥 秘，人类的病理、行为、性格、疾病、种族、身份、命运也就有了更新的答案。如今，基因测序、基因克隆等基因技术迅速发展，人类基因组计划也完成了全部人类基因的比对与测序工作，人类征服基因的时代已经到来。

《基因传》罕见地完整讲述了基因理论的起源、发展和未来，按照时间顺序和故事情节展开，是一部反映基因发展史的传记。《基因传》也是一部科学家们在探究基因奥秘的过程中攻坚克难的故事，像侦探小说一样，以科学家们不断遇到的新问题为线索步步深入，既深入浅出地梳理了基因理论的脉络，又真实记录了科学家们的合作与斗争、成功与失败。《基因传》也讲述了基因理论被政治歪曲利用导致的历史灾难和教训，以及基因技术与制度、文化、伦理、道德的冲撞和博弈。有精彩故事，有人性纠葛，有历史进退，《基因传》是一部有温度的、叙事高超的科普通识读物。

人类从来没有像今天这样无限接近生命的真相，当我们能够掌控和改造人类基因时，“人类”的概念也许将从根本上发生改变，后人类时代正在来临。《基因传》所讲的故事，与每个人都息息相关。

Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. In Chaos, James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, shows that he resides in this exclusive category. Here he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaos--the seemingly random patterns that characterise many natural phenomena.
This is not a purely technical book. Instead, it focuses as much on the scientists studying chaos as on the chaos itself. In the pages of Gleick's book, the reader meets dozens of extraordinary and eccentric people. For instance, Mitchell Feigenbaum, who constructed and regulated his life by a 26-hour clock and watched his waking hours come in and out of phase with those of his coworkers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
As for chaos itself, Gleick does an outstanding job of explaining the thought processes and investigative techniques that researchers bring to bear on chaos problems. Rather than attempt to explain Julia sets, Lorenz attractors and the Mandelbrot Set with gigantically complicated equations, Chaos relies on sketches, photographs and Gleick's wonderful descriptive prose. --Christine Buttery

本书以科学史研究中的一个重大课题即科学与宗教的关系为主题，论述了在基督教文化背景下，西方近代科学自诞生以来，在其起源、发生和发展的过程中，科学的理信纸与实践同基督教之间的相互作用和冲突。作者以精彩的、敏锐的、微妙的、层次丰富的分析，纠正学者们和普通公从看待科学与宗教关系时的一些误解和简单化的结论，着重对科学与宗教的丰富多样的关系作历史的考察，认为两者之间的关系既不是绝对冲突的，也不是绝对和谐的，更

本书论述沙皇时代、俄国革命对科学的影响、科学同苏联社会的关系、知识科学各学科的强项与弱点等内容。

皮尔士和詹姆士俩人很少把实用主义看做一套学说，而更多地将其视为一种方法。他们希望，实用主义的意义准则，既能够终结无止无休且毫无意义的论辩，又能够提供处理合法的哲学问题的一种途径。（虽然在它集中关注意义标准这一点上，实用主义与后来的逻辑实证主义有某些相似，但是，与逻辑实证主义不同的是，无论从其意图和实际效果上来说，古典实用主义都不是反形而上学的。）
没有任何一个专题文集，对于像实用主义这样丰富、复杂、充满了竞争的甚至是相互矛盾的观念的哲学学派，能够做到完全公正。但是，作者已经收入了一些篇章，力图反映皮尔士对逻辑学、形而上学和科学哲学的值得注意的贡献；詹姆士对心理学哲学、宗教哲学、形而上学和伦理学的贡献；杜威对政治哲学、教育哲学、认识论和艺术哲学的贡献；以及米德对社会心理学的基础的贡献。——作者希望，这足够反映实用主义的超乎寻常的范围和丰富性。并且，作者在选择现当代实用主义的支持者的作品时，有意选入这样的作品，它们既能够反映较保守的、改良的一翼，又能够反映较端的、革命的一翼。

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.

- The book argues that ignorance, not knowledge, is what drives science
- The book provides a fascinating inside-view of the way every-day science is actually done
- The book features intriguing case histories of how individual scientists use ignorance to direct their research
Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance—not knowledge—that is the true engine of science.
Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, says Firestein, more often than not, science is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, and there may not be a cat in the room. The process is more hit-or-miss than you might imagine, with much stumbling and groping after phantoms. But it is exactly this "not knowing," this puzzling over thorny questions or inexplicable data, that gets researchers into the lab early and keeps them there late, the thing that propels them, the very driving force of science. Firestein shows how scientists use ignorance to program their work, to identify what should be done, what the next steps are, and where they should concentrate their energies. And he includes a catalog of how scientists use ignorance, consciously or unconsciously—a remarkable range of approaches that includes looking for connections to other research, revisiting apparently settled questions, using small questions to get at big ones, and tackling a problem simply out of curiosity. The book concludes with four case histories—in cognitive psychology, theoretical physics, astronomy, and neuroscience—that provide a feel for the nuts and bolts of ignorance, the day-to-day battle that goes on in scientific laboratories and in scientific minds with questions that range from the quotidian to the profound.
Turning the conventional idea about science on its head, Ignorance opens a new window on the true nature of research. It is a must-read for anyone curious about science.

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot. Holt offers a painless and playful introduction to many of our most beautiful but least understood ideas, from Einsteinian relativity to string theory, and also invites us to consider why the greatest logician of the twentieth century believed the U.S. Constitution contained a terrible contradiction―and whether the universe truly has a future.

本书是有关北极题材的生态文学经典。在五年深入考察的基础上，洛佩兹为我们揭开了地球之巅的神秘面纱，用科学的严谨与诗意的表达，描述了北极地区独特的自然、人文景观。
从洋流、冰川、土壤，到动物、植物，再到土著居民、探险者、科学考察家、开发商… 洛佩兹用百科全书式的记录，全面审视这块土地的历史与现状，重塑我们对北极的认识，同时也对西方的传统价值观进行了深度的反思。
该书出版后获1986年美国国家图书奖（非虚构类），是环保主义理论的奠基作之一。

Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and philosophical perspectives, the book covers an amazing array of topics. Beginning in antiquity with Democritus, it progresses through logic and set theory, computability and complexity theory, quantum computing, cryptography, the information content of quantum states and the interpretation of quantum mechanics. There are also extended discussions about time travel, Newcomb's Paradox, the anthropic principle and the views of Roger Penrose. Aaronson's informal style makes this fascinating book accessible to readers with scientific backgrounds, as well as students and researchers working in physics, computer science, mathematics and philosophy.

①期刊《物理》上的连载专栏；
②物理概念的追根溯源、精彩辨析；
③物理味很浓的知识类休闲读物，图文并茂，妙趣横生。

本书由三十篇文笔优雅、思想深入的文章构成，讨论了众所关注的“免疫”及“接种”等问题。
本书作者尤拉·比斯新为人母时，这个全新角色使得她陷入了妈妈们常有的一种焦虑当中：对政府和医疗机构无法完全信任，担心孩子呼吸的空气、吃的食物、用的床垫、吃的药以及使用的疫苗中究竟是什么……她发觉人们实际上是无法让自己的孩子或者自己“对这个世界免疫”的，于是，她开始了一场针对“免疫”的细致的调研，而本书则是她研究内容的集结，本质上，也是与新父母们，以及社会大众的诚恳交谈——谈信任问题，谈取舍问题，谈科学的可贵，以及人们有时候的急功冒进。
比斯正视了现代社会中人们的共同忧虑，她理解这种焦虑正是面对诸多信息来源，面对人类自身的偏见、脆弱、不能相互信任，以及面对永恒的不可知与不断变化的外部世界时的一种无力反应。然后她在书中告诉我们：每一个个体其实都在一次次地面对着生命中的重要“抉择”，在我们每个人都相互联系在一起的这个时代中，人们应当如何动用理性的力量去思考各种重要问题，如何去除偏见，如何接近真实，如何判断，如何抉择。
这本书知识渊博、旁征博引，广泛涉及到历史、文学、神话、及医学历史，视域开阔，充满了思想的力量，仿佛在科学与文学的接壤处生长。可以说，这本书讨论“免疫”，但最终讲的其实就是我们每个人的身体和命运到底是如何在这个世界上相互关联起来。

元胞自动机是一种时空离散的局部动力学模型，是复杂系统研究的一个典型方法，特别适合用于空间复杂系统的时空动态模拟研究。
本书共分五章。前三章对地理空间系统模拟、元胞自动机理论基础和地理元胞自动机模型作了概述，在对CA模型进行较为系统的深入研究基础上，结合地理复杂系统的特征，提出地理元胞自动机 (GeoCA)模型框架;第四章以城市为例，基于GeoCA模型框架，构造用于模拟城市土地利用动态发展