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。

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.

The Cambridge Companion to Mozart paints a rounded yetfocussed picture of one of the most revered artists of all time.Bringing the most recent scholarship into the public arena, thisvolume bridges the gap between scholarly and popular images of thecomposer, enhancing the readers' appreciation of Mozart and hisextraordinary output, regardless of their prior knowledge of themusic. Part I situates Mozart in the context of lateeighteenth-century musical environments and aesthetic trends thatplayed a pivotal role in his artistic development and examines hismethods of composition. Part II surveys Mozart's works in all ofthe genres in which he excelled and Part III looks at the receptionof the composer and his music since his death. Part IV offersinsight into Mozart's career as a performer as well as theoreticaland practical perspectives on historically informed performances ofhis music.

This Companion is an essential guide to all aspects of the organand its music. It examines in turn the instrument, the player andthe repertoire. The early chapters tell of the instrument's historyand construction, identify the scientific basis of its sounds andthe development of its pitch and tuning, examine the history of theorgan case, and consider the current trends and conflicts withinthe world of organ building. Central chapters investigate thepractical art of learning and playing the organ, introduce thecomplex area of performance practice, and outline the relationshipbetween organ playing and the liturgy of the church. The finalsection explores the vast repertoire of organ music, focusing on aselection of the most important traditions.

This Introduction - an indispensable 'how to' guide forstudents and teachers alike - investigates the methods and aims ofhistorical study in the performing arts, from archival research tohistorical writing. Beginning with case studies on Shakespeareantheatre and avant-garde theatre, this study examines fundamentalprocedures and problems in documentary history and culturalhistory. It demonstrates how historians not only construct variouskinds of performance events but also place them in relation to thehistorical agents, the political and social conditions, artistictraditions, audience responses, and historical periods. Drawingupon scholarship in classics, literary studies, art history,performance studies, and general history, Postlewait shows how toask appropriate historical questions, construct evidence, use playsas historical documents, eliminate faulty sources, challengeunreliable witnesses, and develop historical arguments andnarratives. The book concludes with a survey of the 'twelve cruxes'of rese

Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature hasbeen written for young people, but only recently has academic studyembraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers astate-of-the-subject survey of English-language children'sliterature from the seventeenth century to the present. Withdiscussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modernfantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, the Companionilluminates acknowledged classics and many more neglected works.Its unique structure means that equal consideration can be given toboth texts and contexts. Some chapters analyse key themes and majorgenres, including humour, poetry, school stories, and picturebooks. Others explore the sociological dimensions of children'sliterature and the impact of publishing practices. Written byleading scholars from around the world, this Companion will beessential reading for all students and scholars of children'sliterature, offering original readings and new research thatreflects the latest dev

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding--that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives--the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness--are inextricable from the history playing out around them. Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made TheKiteRunner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love--a stunning accomplishment.

This easy-to-use reference—with hundreds of helpful, classroom-tested answers, ideas, techniques, and teaching tools—will help you on your way to a successful and productive school year. Designed to be flexible, the book offers a choice of ideas and approaches that best fit your classroom situation. Master teacher Julia Thompson shows you how to: Develop successful relationships with students, colleagues, administrators, and parents Manage professional responsibilities and develop career skills Create an orderly classroom where students are courteous and respectful Motivate students to become independent learners Use proven strategies to prevent misbehavior Design instruction that will appeal to every student Set up a classroom for maximum comfort and learning Thrive in the world of high-stakes testing

Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, andrichly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, withforty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name.Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland,England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism toscience fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction,travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to AnthonyTrollope provides a state-of-the-field review of criticalperspectives on his work, with the volume's sixteen essaysaddressing Trollope's biography, autobiography, canonical fiction,short stories and travel writing, as well as surveying diversetopics including gender, sexuality, vulgarity, and the law.

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognisedas a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with JohnRawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited withbreathing new life into the discipline in the second half of thetwentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced andcomprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to politicalphilosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributorsanalyse Nozick's ideas from a variety of perspectives and exploreneglected areas of the work such as his discussion of anarchism andhis theory of utopia. Their detailed and illuminating picture ofAnarchy, State, and Utopia, its impact and its enduring influencewill be invaluable to students and scholars in both politicalphilosophy and political theory.

Teaches students of all ages the basics of phonics with atime-tested, foolproof method This tenth edition of the best-selling book teaches reading usingsounds and spelling patterns. These sounds and patterns areintroduced one at a time, and slowly built into words, syllables,phrases, and sentences. Simple step-by-step directions begin everylesson. Although originally designed for K-2 emergent readers, thisaward-winning book is also successfully being used with adolescentand adult learners, as well as second language learners andstudents with learning disabilities. Wise and humorous proverbsencourage virtues such as patience, perseverance, honesty,kindness, compassion, courage, and loyalty. Offers help for all students including those with learningdisabilities or very short attention spans Includes extensive examples, word lists, and practice readingsthat are 100% decodable Uses a multisensory method that benefits all learningstyles This bestselling, much-loved book offers

Based on rapid advances in what is known about how peoplelearn and how to teach effectively, this important book examinesthe core concepts and central pedagogies that should be at theheart of any teacher education program. Stemming from the resultsof a commission sponsored by the National Academy of Education,Preparing Teachers for a Changing World recommends the creation ofan informed teacher education curriculum with the common elementsthat represent state-of-the-art standards for the profession.Written for teacher educators in both traditional and alternativeprograms, university and school system leaders, teachers, staffdevelopment professionals, researchers, and educationalpolicymakers, the book addresses the key foundational knowledge forteaching and discusses how to implement that knowledge within theclassroom. Preparing Teachers for a Changing World recommends that, inaddition to strong subject matter knowledge, all new teachers havea basic understanding of how people learn and develop, a

History tells us that when you want something clone you turn to a leader: right? Wrong. If you want to make a correct decision or solve a problem, large groups of people are smarter than a few experts. This brilliant and insightful book shows why the conventional wisdom is so wrong and why the theory of the wisdom of crowds has huge implications for how we run our businesses, structure our political systems and organise our society. Shrewd, meticulous and profound, The Wisdom of Crowds will change for ever the way you think about human behaviour. 作者简介： James Surowiecki is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes the popular business column, 'The Financial Page'. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Wired and Slate. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer inEnglish of the twentieth century. The massive critical literatureon Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and thereforesomewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributedto and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer andhis literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell'swriting and influence is an indispensable resource. Accordingly,this Companion serves as both an introduction to Orwell's work andfurnishes numerous innovative interpretations and fresh criticalperspectives on it. Throughout the Companion, which includeschapters dedicated to two of Orwell's major novels, NineteenEighty-Four and Animal Farm, Orwell's work is placed within thecontext of the political and social climate of the time. Hisresponse to the Depression, British imperialism, Stalinism, WorldWar II, and the politics of the British Left are also examined.

Beautifully illustrated with 75 photographs in full color, The Robert Pattinson Album by Paul Stenning is a breathtaking visual biography of one of the world’s most talked-about young actors. The hugely successful vampire romance Twilight was a box-office phenomenon, and Robert is that smash-hit film’s breakout star. In the space of a few short years, the twenty-two-year-old Londoner has gone from amateur stage performer to full-blown Hollywood idol, and his staggering ascent is already the stuff of legend. The public first took notice when Robert appeared in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire but the role that would change his life forever was that of charismatic teenage vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight, the film adapted from author Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling book series.

The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen originalessays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist.Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisinglydifficult to understand. The essays collected here aretheoretically informed but accessibly written and cover the fullrange of Cather's career, including most of her twelve novels andseveral of her short stories. The essays situate Cather's work in abroad range of critical, cultural, and literary contexts, and theintroduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship as wellas the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailedchronology and a guide to further reading, the volume offersstudents and teachers a fresh and thorough sense of the author ofMy ?ntonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for theArchbishop.

Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received. Analyzing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of

The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most importantEuropean vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. ThisIntroduction to the saga genre outlines its origins anddevelopment, its literary character, its material existence inmanu*s and printed editions, and its changing reception fromthe Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres -including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights- are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medievalIcelanders is powerfully evoked. The first general study of the OldNorse-Icelandic saga to be written in English for some decades, theIntroduction is based on up-to-date scholarship and engages withcurrent debates in the field. With suggestions for further reading,detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a mapof medieval Iceland, this book is aimed at students of medievalliterature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavianlanguages.

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship,addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on ContinentalEuropean theories of state and legal systems as it was at home.This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from boththe Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newlycommissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in atopic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure ofLeviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics,metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively theyshowcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines boththe context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating thedegree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition ofEuropean humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows thatHobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a traditionof reflection on political theory and governance that is stillalive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.

Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never beenhigher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects ofher engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of theacclaimed Cambridge Companion offers clear, accessible coverage ofthe intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context, withbiographical information and suggestions for further reading. Majorscholars address Austen's six novels, the letters and other works,in terms accessible to students and the many general readers, aswell as to academics. With seven new essays, the Companion nowcovers topics that have become central to recent Austen studies,for example, gender, sociability, economics, and the increasingnumber of screen adaptations of the novels.

The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is thewatershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed thelandscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significantphilosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.This 2006 volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion toKant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particularfocus on his moral and political philosophy. It also providesdetailed coverage of Kant's historical context and of the enormousimpact and influence that his work has had on the subsequenthistory of philosophy. The bibliography also offers extensive andorganized coverage of both classical and recent books on Kant. Thisvolume thus provides the broadest and deepest introductioncurrently available on Kant and his place in modern philosophy,making accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to thosecoming to his work for the first time.

Thick Face, Black Heart is a profound distillation of ancient Chinese wisdom and experience filtered through a modern Asian business perspective. Blending stories and principles drawn from Chinese military history and modern entrepreneurship, author Chu shows that success is achievable by anyone who follows the lessons in this invaluable guide and learns how to: develop and employ intuition as a business tool, master defeat, acquire a killer instinct, solve the mystery of money, thrive among the cunning and ruthless, and much more. 作者简介： CHIN-NING CHU, a leading business strategist and bestselling Ameri-can author in Asia and the Pacific Rim, is president of Asian Market-ing Consultants, Inc., and the Strategic Learning Institute.

The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years. The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured. The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China.