In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case
against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry
of the double helix.

画画对孩子有那么重要吗?
孩子的画应该如何看?怎样引导?
要不要让孩子去上绘画培训班?
如何通过画画培养孩子的创造力和想象力?
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该书是日本著名儿童教育专家、画家鸟居昭美的经典著作。作者在幼教领域积累了五十余年丰富的实践经验，他结合典型案例，通过朴实亲切的语言，深入浅出地分析孩子自然绘画所隐藏的宝贵信息，帮助父母正确认识孩子的绘画作品以及孩子作品背后所蕴涵的价值和意义，从儿童心理和生理全面发展的角度，来指导成人真正了解孩子涂鸦的内在需求，以及如何对孩子进行必要的引导与帮助，从而使教育者避免走入误区。书中还针对不同年龄段孩子涂鸦表达的特点进行系统归纳和点评，并对父母和老师提出的常见问题进行解答，非常实用，是0—9岁孩子父母和老师们的必备用书。
本书曾于2001年引进中国出版，当时的书名叫《走进孩子的涂鸦世界》，受到重视儿童早期教育的父母们和教育工作者的关注和推崇，一直在网上口碑相传至今。漓江版的最新译本为作者2010年的最新修订版。

From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the Billboard charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. In The Anthology of Rap , editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois demonstrate that rap is also a wide-reaching and vital poetic tradition born of beats and rhymes.
This pioneering anthology brings together more than three hundred lyrics written over thirty years, from the “old school” to the “golden age” to the present day. Rather than aim for encyclopedic coverage, Bradley and DuBois render through examples the richness and diversity of rap’s poetic tradition. They feature both classic lyrics that helped define the genre, including Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s “The Message” and Eric B. & Rakim’s “Microphone Fiend,”as well as lesser-known gems like Blackalicious’s “Alphabet Aerobics” and Jean Grae’s “Hater’s Anthem.”
Both a fan’s guide and a resource for the uninitiated, The Anthology of Rap showcases the inventiveness and vitality of rap’s lyrical art. The volume also features an overview of rap poetics and the forces that shaped each period in rap’s historical development, as well as a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and afterwords by Chuck D and Common. Enter the Anthology to experience the full range of rap’s artistry and discover a rich poetic tradition hiding in plain sight.

本书译自《科学美国人》杂志社发行的一套六组数学悖论幻灯片“Paradox Box”（悖论箱）的文字说明，包括逻辑学、概率论、数论、几何学、统计学和时间等六个方面的数学悖论。
“悖论”也可叫“逆论”，或“反论”，这个词的意义比较丰富，它包括一切与人的直觉和日常经验相矛盾的数学结论，那些结论会使我们惊异无比。悖论有三种主要形式。
1．一种论断看起来好像肯定错了，但实际上却是对的（佯谬）。
2．一种论断看起来好像肯定是对的，但实际上却错了（似是而非的理论）。
3．一系列推理看起来好像无懈可击，可是却导致逻辑上自相矛盾。
悖论有点像魔术中的变戏法，它使人们在看完之后，几乎没有—个不惊讶得马上就想知道：“这套戏法是怎么搞成的？”当把技巧告诉他时，他就会不知不觉地被引进深奥而有趣的数学世界之中。
这套书有五个主要目的：
1．激发学生对数学的兴趣；
2．向读者介绍重要的数学思路；
3．发起丰富多彩的数学活动；
4．使人洞悉解题过程；
5．提高学生对现代数学所具有的美妙、多样、甚至幽默性质的鉴赏力。

Examines the role of evolution in human-made entities， stressing that no one can be in control--and it is better that way--and attempting to define the world of distributed being. 15，000 first printing.

Dinosaurs haunt museum halls, stomp across movie screens, and adorn just about any product you can name. Despite groundbreaking discoveries, the dinosaurs of our childhood are entrenched in our minds, and new science struggles to overcome the inaccurate monsters of Jurassic Park. In My Beloved Brontosaurus, the brilliant dinosaur fanatic Brian Switek investigates the tension between dinosaurs as scientific objects and pop-culture icons as he introduces us to the latest theories in palaeontology, from how dinosaurs had sex to what colours they were and just how they got so big. To understand why they died-after 150 million years of success - we need to know how they lived. With infectious enthusiasm, Switek explains that these giant beasts left behind a wealth of information in their bones - and it's only by piecing together these clues that we can begin to understand ourselves. After all, our furry little ancestors lived in the shadow of the dinosaurs. Switek visits excavation sites, museums, and high-tech labs to question what we've long held true about these creatures, weaving in stories from his obsession with dinosaurs that started when he was knee-high to a Stegosaurus. Endearing, surprising, and essential to our understanding of our place on Earth, My Beloved Brontosaurus is a book that science buffs and dinosaur fans will cherish for years to come.

The first book to establish the now wildly popular category of dog psychology, THE INTELLIGENCE OF DOGS made headlines and news with its controversial rankings of smart dogs, lap dogs and watchdogs. Updated with the most recent scientific research, interviews with top breeders and trainers, and his own personal observations as a lifelong dog lover, Stanley Coren's first, and now classic, bestseller reveals some surprising facts about the intelligence of our closest animal companions. Dog lovers gain practical tips on evaluating their dog's intelligence, reading dog body language, understanding the sophisticated 'language' of a dog's bark, and tailoring a training programme to suit each dog's special needs. Here too are Coren's scientifically determined lists that rank more than one hundred breeds for obedience, problem-solving, and working intelligence, as well as for specialized tasks, such as being a guard dog or being safe around children. Whether your dog is pure bred or a mixed breed you can use the dog intelligence test that Coren provides to find out how smart your best friend is. Rich in wit, wisdom, and anecdotes, this new edition of THE INTELLIGENCE OF DOGS brings dog fanciers a greater understanding and enjoyment of the habits, antics and abilities of dogs.

在令人眼花缭乱的食谱和饮食文化背后，是不是隐藏着一种有关食物的本能，一种全人类共有的味觉体验？有没有一种“食物理论”决定着我们会选哪些东西来吃，决定我们认为吃多少才算饱，决定我们爱吃什么零食？神经人类学家约翰•艾伦觉得有。在这本书里，他探索了味觉的演化基础，以及共同的认知基础何以衍生出世界各地纷繁复杂的饮食文化。
人类食用的植物和动物种类非常广泛，但与其他杂食动物不同，我们吃饭时用到的不只有舌与胃，还有脑。味蕾能够体现人类的自然史，我们是独一无二的超级杂食者。
这本书的素材来自食物历史、厨师、人类学家和神经科学家，艾伦先是描绘了我们最原始的祖先的食谱，探索了烹饪在大脑演化中的作用，随后将笔锋转向当代吃货关心的一系列问题。书中探究了对食物的厌恶与喜好、给食物加上“好”和“坏”标签的强迫性需要、健康食物金字塔的膳食偏差，还对吃这件事进行了跨文化比较。
例如，为了解释为什么全世界的人都喜欢吃酥脆的食物，艾伦先是考察了人类的近亲食用昆虫的习惯。他还提示，咬碎酥脆食品的声音可以丰富感官体验，避免吃饭时的乏味。另外，对健康不利的油炸食品却会让我们获得犯错般的快感。事关吃喝，决定味觉的绝不是单一因素。
如果说语言反映了人脑独特的高级智慧，食物在此方面也毫不逊色。这是一本能够让人思考的书，让大家能更深刻地认识人和食物的关系，更明白我们为什么要吃、吃什么以及怎么吃，并更深入了解我们的过去，同时思考人类的将来。
——薛贵 北京师范大学长江学者特聘教授 认知神经科学家
这本书告诉你的，是“人类为什么喜欢这样吃”。不明白这些，并不会影响你享受美味，但明白了这些，可以让你谈起吃来与众不同，在吃货中上升几个等级。
——云无心 科普“《吃的真相》系列”作者
艾伦结合了演化与现代生物学研究，做出了一桌有关人类饮食习惯的盛宴，桌上满是新鲜想法。这本书以迷人的笔触揭示了食物的深层意义。
——理查德•兰厄姆（Richard Wrangham） 哈佛大学人类学家
书里有多如牛毛的有趣信息：我们为什么爱吃酥脆的食物，食物如何推动演化……这是取道餐盘的人类史之旅。
——Jesse Rhodes，史密森尼杂志美食专栏作者
我们的大脑总是会被食物吸引，耽迷于复杂的食谱，眼馋巧克力……艾伦以精神上的味觉偏好作为透镜，讲述生物学和文化历史的故事，他的武器是人类学、食物历史和作为厨师的经验。书中涉及对食物的渴望与厌恶、文化取向与节食，内容丰盛。
——《自然》
艾伦是个科学家，这就是说，他对食物的文化史——比如说腌黄瓜怎么从东欧迁移到纽约——兴趣不大，他感兴趣的是“干货”。他的工作就是观察大脑扫描图，看看要求被试者想着不同的食物时，他们的哪部分脑区会被激活。由此，他能把如今人们对食物的偏好镶嵌到生物演化的漫长征程中。
——Kathryn Hughes，历史学家，作家

What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science. Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do bilinguals switch from one language to another in mid-sentence? Will raising bilingual children confuse and delay their learning of any language? In a lively and often entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism, son of an English mother and a French father, explores the many facets of bilingualism. In this book, Francois Grosjean draws on research, interviews, autobiographies, and the engaging examples of bilingual authors. He describes the various strategies - some useful, some not - used by parents raising bilingual children, explains how children easily pick up and forget languages, and considers how bilingualism affects the experience and expression of emotions, thoughts, and dreams. This book shows that speaking two or more languages is not a sign of intelligence, evasiveness, cultural alienation, or political disloyalty. For millions of people, it's simply a way of navigating the complexities of life.

The study of sexual physiology what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey s attic.Mary Roach, the funniest science writer in the country (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Why doesn t Viagra help women or, for that matter, pandas? In Bonk, Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm, two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth, can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place.

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An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith.
This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes-heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another. Most controversially, he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip service to religionan accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world.
Natalie Angier wrote in the New York Times: "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated.Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."

In this controversial, thought-provoking, and brilliant book, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda JethÁ debunk almost everything we “know” about sex, weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality to show how far from human nature monogamy really is. In Sex at Dawn , the authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity.

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations — both pre- and post-transition — to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole.
Serano's well-honed arguments stem from her ability to bridge the gap between the often-disparate biological and social perspectives on gender. She exposes how deep-rooted the cultural belief is that femininity is frivolous, weak, and passive, and how this "feminine" weakness exists only to attract and appease male desire.
In addition to debunking popular misconceptions about transsexuality, Serano makes the case that today's feminists and transgender activist must work to embrace and empower femininity — in all of its wondrous forms.