When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined. In this edition, Stephen Jay Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."

《哲学作为严格的科学》在当时思想界所产生的影响至少可以概括以下两个方面：
人批判的角度来看，在《逻辑研究》完成了对心理主义的有力抨击之后，《哲学作为严格的科学》仍需要在两条站线上作战：一方面是与自然主义，另一方面是与历史主义，前者主要表现在当时盛行的实验心理学的各种学说之中，后者则主要是指为狄尔泰等人所倡导的历史学派，胡塞尔的批判在很大程度上是《逻辑研究》中对心理主义批判的继续，他仍然在坚持不懈地提示这些学说的相对主义和主义之最终结局。
除此之外，由于胡塞尔在这篇文章中公开表露了他与狄尔泰思想的分歧，因而这篇文字对后人理解现象学与解释学之间的关系也不无启迪作用。

地球上的生命如何产生？复制或者新陈代谢出现在生命史初期吗？在这本经过深入修订的第二版里，弗里曼• 戴森追问这些问题，并且讨论两个主要理论，试图说明天然存在的化学物质如何实现自我组织进而形成生命体。
多数观点认为，生命起源于分子的复制，形成了现代基因的前体。少数观点则认为，分子随机组合的群体早在进行精确的复制之前已逐步形成新陈代谢活动，自然选择促使细胞长时间朝着多样化的方向进化。这一过程中，基因并未进化。戴森参考地质学家和生物学家近期的重要发现来分析这两种理论，旨在鼓励科学家进行新的实验，帮助决定哪个理论正确。
本书第一版出版于1985 年，当时生物学、遗传学，以及地质学已经作出了革命性的发现，这增进了人们对于生命起源问题的了解。分子生物学家们发现了由RNA 构成的酶——核酶。遗传学家发现，许多最古老的生物生活在炎热的环境下，能够耐热。地质学家在格陵兰岛最古老的陆栖岩石上发现了生命迹象。本书第二版涵盖了过去十年半的时间里人类在生物学和地质学方面的重大进展以及这些重大进展对人类了解生命起源所产生的影响。戴森的这本书思路清晰、引人入胜，定会吸引那些对生命起源感兴趣的读者们。

Starred Review. Mukherjee's debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee's formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)
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In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task. The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection." The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master's vision of life, in all its splendor.

《数学的建筑》选编了两篇能集中反映该学派对数学的基本观点的著作：《数学的建筑》和《数学研究者的数学基础》。另外还选了布尔巴基奠基者H·嘉当、韦伊以及狄奥多涅介绍布尔巴基的论文。这些著作和论文，是研究布尔巴基学派的主要原始文献，为我们揭开了布尔巴基的神秘面纱。

The formal sciences, particularly mathematics, have had a profound influence on the development of linguistics. This insightful overview looks at techniques that were introduced in the fields of mathematics, logic and philosophy during the twentieth century, and explores their effect on the work of various linguists. In particular, it discusses the 'foundations crisis' that destabilised mathematics at the start of the twentieth century, the numerous related movements which sought to respond to this crisis, and how they influenced the development of syntactic theory in the 1950s. The book concludes by discussing the resulting major consequences for syntactic theory, and provides a detailed reassessment of Chomsky's early work at the advent of Generative Grammar. Informative and revealing, this book will be invaluable to all those working in formal linguistics, in particular those interested in its history and development.

This volume is part of Marshall Clagett's three-volume study of the various aspects of science of Ancient Egypt. Volume Two covers calendars, clocks, and astonomical monuments. Within each area of treatment there is a fair chronology evident as benefits a historical work covering three millenia of activity. Includes more than 100 illustrations of documents and scientific objects.

《托马斯微积分》（第10版）是从PEARSON Education购买翻译版权引进的，其特色可用“呈传统特色，富革新精神”来概括，50年以来，该书平均每四五年就有一个新版面世，每版较之先前版本都有不少改进之处，体现了这是一部锐意革新的教材；与此同时，该书始终注意保持其基本特色且有所增强，说明它又是一部重视继承传统的教材。

《相对论的意义》作者以其特有的论述才能，精辟介绍了狭义相对论和广义相对论的基本内容，对相对论的成就及其发展中存在的关键问题进行了深入探讨。中译本忠实原文，使用现行规范的名词，对于所有对相对论以及物理学思想史有兴趣的读者，《相对论的意义》均有极大的启发价值，也是十分值得收藏的历史文献。

《星系与星际边缘》向读者介绍了星系的类型，并带领大家重温了它们在漫长的宇宙时间里——从大爆炸时期到今天——不断旋转和变化的过程，作者带我们踏上了一次壮阔淘的旅程，从我们的宇宙家园银河系出发，前去探索椭圆星系的精致结构和旋转运动，参观最强大的星系——类星体，最后到达更远的宇宙空间：星际边缘。这次旅行使我们以全新的视角对宇宙进行了一次深入探索。
120亿年来，星系装饰着宇宙，构成了天穹，照亮着太空 这些庞大的体系，每个都拥有成千上万颗星星，它们共同构成了复杂、完美而又充满活力的广阔宇宙。
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《剑桥天文爱好者指南》详尽的参考书提供了大量的实用信息。涵盖了业余天文学的方方面面。主题编排清楚易读，包括了观测技巧，望远镜与天文台，互联网资源以及可供研究的天体目标等；刚刚入门的新手可以从中学到大量的技巧和窍门，学会如何开始对星空的探索；那些有经验的观测行可以从小获得有益的建议，使自己的观测更加富有成效。

本书壮观、刺激。作者的力作，以今探古，以今日之知识、今日之科学，探索世界之根源。热情洋溢的内容、诗情画意的叙述，探幽索隐、高层建瓴。一书在手，赏心悦目。

本书讨论的是世间最简单的一个问题：“何谓时空”？它简单得难以回答。为什么我们生活在一个简单且规则的三维世界中？量子引力理论的成功之处就是它将解释为什么是这样，本书是一份前沿报告，将人们对时空的最新思考串联起来。

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"A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe. Since its publication, however, there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world, confirming many of Professor Hawking's predictions. Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these observations, Hawking has written a new introduction, updated chapters throughout, and added an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel.
"A Brief History of Time" has guided nonscientists everywhere to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe, taking them to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions — as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. This anniversary edition makes vividly clear why Professor Hawking's eloquent classic has transformed our view of the universe.
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Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God."
--Therese Littleton
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A new edition?with pictures?for those who couldn't fathom the original.
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Stephen Hawking, who was born on the anniversary of Galileo's death in 1942, holds Isaac Newton's chair as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, he is also the author of Black Holes and Baby Universes, a collection of essays published in 1993, as well as numerous scientific papers and books.
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本书是著名科学家、物理学奠基人艾·爱因斯坦和著名科学家利·英费尔德合著的科普名著，主要介绍了物理学观念从伽利略、牛顿时代的经典理论发展到现代的场论、相对论和量子论的演变情况，其中选择了几个主要的转折点来阐明经典物理学的命运和现代物理学中建立新观念的动机，从而指引读者怎样去找寻观念世界和现象世界的联系。全书不引用数学公式，文字通俗，举例浅显，编写体裁别开一面。