内容简介 本书是关于我们如何从科学的视角重新认识这个世界的科普读物，阐述了宇宙、世界、生命科学视角下，对世界本源的认识，并结合生物学、数学、物理学和计算机科学知识，更加细致入微地解释我们观察到的世界中的各类现象。 在这本书中，作者希望表明我们的宇宙不仅仅是一座没有生命、毫无意义的数学机器。在我们真正了解意识和人类思想的奇迹之前，我们能真正了解宇宙吗？为了做到这一点，作者超越了物理世界去寻找答案。对于对生命、宇宙和一切事物的深层问题感到好奇的读者来说，《世界本身》是一本必不可少的读物。

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This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civilrights movement and the struggle for justice in America. Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than adecade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An essential chapterin American history from a distinguished historian”—Nell Painter),tells of the commission’s founding in 1957 by President Eisenhower,in response to burgeoning civil rights protests; how it wasdesigned to be an independent bipartisan Federal agency—made up ofsix members, with no more than three from one political party, freeof interference from Congress and presidents—beholden to nogovernment body, with full subpoena power, and free to decide whatit would investigate and report on. Berry writes that the commission, rather than producing reportsthat would gather dust on the shelves, began to hold hearings evenas it was under attack from Southern segregationists. Sh

The Rhineland region includes the core regional economy ofwestern Europe, encompassing Belgium, Luxemburg and parts of theNetherlands, France, Switzerland and Germany. Throughout historythere have been tensions between this region's roles as a frontierand as western Europe's economic core. Michael Loriaux argues thatthe European Union arose from efforts to deconstruct this frontier.He traces Rhineland geopolitics back to its first emergence,restoring frontier deconstruction to the forefront of discussionabout the EU. He recounts how place names were manipulated tolegitimate political power and shows how this manipulationgenerated the geopolitics that the EU now tries to undo. Loriauxalso argues that the importance of this issue has significantlyaffected the nature of the EU's development and helps condition afestering legitimation crisis.

Babies are not born talking, they learn language, startingimmediately from birth. How does this process take place? When dochildren master the skills needed for using language successfully?What stages do they go through as they learn to understand andtalk? Do the languages they learn affect the way they think? Thisnew edition of Eve Clark's highly successful textbook focuses onchildren's acquisition of a first language, the stages ofdevelopment they go through, and how they use language as theylearn. It reports on recent findings in each area covered, includesa completely new chapter on the acquisition of two languages andshows how speech to children differs by social class. Skilfullyintegrating actual data with coverage of current theories anddebates, it is an essential guide to studying language acquisitionfor those working in linguistics, developmental psychology andcognitive science.

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《南来的挑战》是大众报业集团（大众日报社）社长梁国典从事新闻工作30年来的作品选集，精选了作者撰写的通讯和论文的代表作品。作者从记者干起，全身心投入新闻工作，紧跟时代发展潮流，采写和组织策划了孔繁森、李登海、朱彦夫、王乐义等重大典型人物报道，推出了如莱芜市乡镇简政放权、莱西市村级组织建设、文登农村精神文明建设、荣成市实践“三个代表”的经验以及海尔经验、“南巡第三春的汇报系列述评”等等重大经验性报道，挖掘重大典型、新闻事件、英模人物身上的时代价值，捕捉新闻背后的丰盈内涵，多篇作品获得中国新闻奖。实践证明，这些通讯报道的典型，经住了时间的检验，到现在仍具有典型意义，是做好新时期典型宣传的生动教材。作者走上管理岗位后，注重加强对新闻实践的总结提升，撰写了大量业务论文，内容涉及采编业

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《追求卓越》是作者对第二语言（英语）教学中的专家知能所作的开创性研究成果，书中通过对四位第二语言教师进行的案例研究，看到了教学新手和专家型教师在行为方式和拥有知识方面的诸多不同。