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。

Listing more than 500 sky targets, both near and far, in 187challenges, this observing guide will test novice astronomers andadvanced veterans alike. Its unique mix of Solar System anddeep-sky targets will have observers hunting for the Apollo lunarlanding sites, searching for satellites orbiting the outermostplanets, and exploring hundreds of star clusters, nebulae, distantgalaxies, and quasars. Each target object is accompanied by arating indicating how difficult the object is to find, an in-depthvisual de*ion, an illustration showing how the objectrealistically looks, and a detailed finder chart to help you findeach challenge quickly and effectively. The guide introducesobjects often overlooked in other observing guides and featurestargets visible in a variety of conditions, from the inner city tothe dark countryside. Challenges are provided for the naked eye,through binoculars and the largest backyard telescopes. · Lists over 500 sky targets through 187 challenges suitable forthe naked eye,

Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, andfeeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasinglydifficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. Wemay not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus,insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused bynutritional deficiency. Green Smoothie Revolution takes aim at thissilent epidemic by restoring balance to our diets. Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack apowerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglectedfruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for ourbusy lives: with fast prep and delicious results. Featuring 200recipes, Green Smoothie Revolution offers both simplicity (4 ripepears, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water; blend well) and enoughvariety to keep taste buds happy and nutrients coming from a wealthof options.

We say we can no longer trust our public services,institutions or the people who run them. The professionals we haveto rely on - politicians, doctors, scientists, businessmen and manyothers - are treated with suspicion. Their word is doubted, theirmotives questioned. Whether real or perceived, this crisis of trusthas a debilitating impact on society and democracy. Can trust berestored by making people and institutions more accountable? Or docomplex systems of accountability and control themselves damagetrust? Onora O'Neill challenges current approaches, investigatessources of deception in our society and re-examines questions ofpress freedom. This year's Reith Lectures present a philosopher'sview of trust and deception, and ask whether and how trust can berestored in a modern democracy.

Studies show that patients who contribute to their owntreatment and recovery fare better in rehabilitation.Tailoring theconcept for those suffering from joint pain, orthopedicpsychologist Kate O'Shea draws from her patients and her owncongenital hip orblems (she has four major surgeries by the timeshe was thirteen) to describe a program for caring for theemotional and physical body while healing joint pain or aftersurgery. Conventional medical care, thouch technologicallysophisticated, often ignores the humanity of individuals--patientsare on their own once they are home. Healing Hip, Joint and KneePain offers exercises, breathing techniques, visualization andwriting suggestions for becoming aware emotionally and forenhancing awareness of the healing joint. Drawing from Rosen work,Feldenkrais, Eutony, and orthopedic psychologym O'Shea provides thereader with inviting methods to hasten healing.

John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the IrishRevival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin'sAbbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensiveintroduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-knownplays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and ThePlayboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work TheAran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analysesof individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on hisengagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation,gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts oflandmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. Witha guide to further reading and a chronology, this book willintroduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irishstudies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential andcontroversial dramatists of the twentieth century.

In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller,award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells theharrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, anordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemma—a man forced to riskeverything to escape the powerful and treacherous Cali crimesyndicate. Colombia in the 1990s is a country in chaos, as a weak governmentbattles guerrilla movements and narco-traffickers, including thenotorious Pablo Escobar and his rivals in the Cali cartel. EnterJorge Salcedo, a part-time soldier, a gifted engineer, a respectedbusinessman and family man—and a man who despises Pablo Escobar forpatriotic and deeply personal reasons. He is introduced to thegodfathers of the Cali cartel, who are at war with Escobar anddesperately want their foe dead. With mixed feelings, Jorge agreesto help them. Once inside, Jorge rises to become head of security for MiguelRodríguez Orejuela, principal godfather of the $7-billion-a-yearCali drug cartel. Jorge tries

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published asKerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951,Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"atyped as asingle-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper,which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A majorliterary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007,this is the uncut version of an American classicarougher, wilder,and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavilyedited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creativehistory, represents the first full expression of Kerouacasrevolutionary aesthetic.

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain. 作者简介： Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in south China. She studied film at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before she moved to London in 2002. The English translation of Vi/lage of stone (Chatto, 2004) was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Xiaolu's feature film, How is Your Fish Today? (2006) was selected for the Sundance and Rotterdam Festivals and awarded the prize for best feature at the Creteil International Women's Film Festival. She divides her time between Europe and China.

The seasons of the year parallel the symbolic seasons of life,with spring representing the childhood years of hope and seeing theworld with new eyes; summer the young-adult years of growth andengagement; autumn the years of mid-life reflection, healing, andforgiveness; and winter the late-life years of rest, restoration,and rejuvenation. Daily Aromatherapy introduces readers to thetransformative qualities of nature’s aromas for each of theseseasons. Each month of the year profiles and explores thepsychological and subtle energy aspects of four different essentialoils–one per week. Forty-eight different oils are profiled in thisway. Readers experience each oil and its powers in depth throughseven different intention exercises: an affirmation, emotionalself-discovery questions, a ceremony, a blessing, an activity, avisualization, and a prayer. While aromatherapy is a holistic modality, affecting the body,mind, and spirit, the focus of Daily Aromatherapy is on mind andspirit. While not explicitly including

Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the mostfrightening rampages to occur in U.S. history—and how it wasstopped. For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief asWashington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were held hostage byanonymous gunmen shooting innocent civilians at random. Sniper isthe de?nitive account of those alleged gunmen, John Muhammad andLee Boyd Malvo, and the massive manhunt that ended with theircapture by a heavily armed SWAT team in an early-morning raid at aninterstate highway rest stop. Two Washington Post reporters, Sari Horwitz and Michael E. Ruane,retrace the steps of Muhammad and Malvo from their ?rst meeting onthe island of Antigua to Malvo’s de?ant confession in a Virginiajail. Drawing on exclusive reporting about that confession,internal police documents, and a wide range of law-enforcementsources, Horwitz and Ruane track in remarkable detail the murderoustrail Muhammad and Malvo are accused of having followed to theWashington area a

The only thing wrong with this readable, funny memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure and balance is that it seems so much like a Jennifer Aniston movie. Like Jen, Liz is a plucky blond American woman in her thirties with no children and no major money worries. As the book opens, she is going through a really bad divorce and subsequent stormy rebound love affair. Awash in tears in the middle of the night on the floor of the bathroom, she begins to pray for guidance, "you know -- like, to God." God answers. He tells her to go back to bed. I started seeing the Star headlines: "Jen's New Faith!" "What Really Happened at the Ashram!" "Jen's Brazilian Sugar Daddy -- Exclusive Photos!" Please understand that Gilbert, whose earlier nonfiction book, The Last American Man, portrayed a contemporary frontiersman, is serious about her quest. But because she never leaves her self-deprecating humor at home, her journey out of depression and toward belief lacks a certain gravit

A great master of the early Renaissance, Piero della Francescacre-ated paintings for ecclesiastics, confraternities, andillustriousnobles throughout the Italian peninsula. Since the earlytwentiethcentury, the rational space, abstract designs, lucidillumination,and naturalistic details of his pictures haveattracted a wide audi-ence. Piero's treatises on mathematics andperspective also fasci-nate scholars in a wide range ofdisciplines. The Cambridge Com-panion to Piero della Francescabrings together new essays thatoffer a synthesis and overview ofPiero's life and accomplishmentsas a painter and theoretician. Theyexplore a variety of themesassociated with the artist's career,including the historical and reli-gious circumstances surroundingPiero's altarpieces and frescoes;the politics underlying hisportraits; the significance of clothing inhis paintings; theinfluence of his theories on perspective andmathematics; and theartist's enduring fascination for modernpainters and writers.

In this incisive analysis of generals, John Keegan examinesthe meaning of heroism as represented by Alexander the Great,Wellington, Grant, and Hitler, and argues that generalship, likewarfare itself, is a cultural activity that has, through the years,required a change in the very nature of leadership. 16 pages ofphotos.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Healing Your Heart and RebuildingYour Marriage Discovering that your husband has beenunfaithful can be emotionally devastating, leaving you reeling inpain and confusion. But take heart—this survival guide for womenoffers compassionate and practical solutions for coping with theaftermath of an affair. Drawing on their years of experience asprofessional therapists, authors Marcella Bakur Weiner and Armand DiMele explain how to heal the marriage bond andrestore trust between partners. Written with empathy andunderstanding, this book addresses such vital topics as: ·Coming to terms with the sense of loss and betrayal ·Coping with feelings of suspicion and the specter of "the otherwoman" ·Dealing with the children during and after the affair ·Understanding character traits of men who have affairs—and howdifferent women's personalities interact with them ·Finding the best sources of emotional support Also included are helpful exercises for self-healing andredeveloping mutual t

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.

In this classic work of economic history and social theory,Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought aboutby the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. Hisanalysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulatingmarket, but the potentially dire social consequences of untemperedmarket capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewedimportance of Polanyi's seminal analysis in an era of globalizationand free trade.

Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.

Louis Eguaras, a renowned chef at the Le Cordon Bleu Programat the California School of Culinary Arts, provides readers with aterrific overview of what is truly involved in the preparation,cooking, and presentation of meals. He also provides invaluableinsights into just what is involved in making this one's chosenprofession. The book will feature a wide range of illustrated lessons, fromhow to properly hold a knife... to the history of food... from foodpreparation and presentation... to restaurant hospitality andmanagement, and much more. The book will be presented in the distinctive andhighly-attractive packaged style of 101 THINGS I LEARNED INARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, and will be the perfect gift for anyone who isthinking about entering culinary school, is already enrolled, oreven just the casual chef.

As an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,William Queen must tackle a number of challenging cases. In thewinter of 1985, he faces his toughest mission to date: He mustapprehend Mark Stephens, a notorious narcotics trafficker who hasbeen terrorizing the communities around Los Angeles with frequentrampages involving machine guns and hand grenades. A recluse livingin the treacherous backwoods outside the city, Stephens is a wilysurvivalist. Nobody has been able to catch him, but Queen isdetermined to take him down. Queen’s unique expertise is not taughtin any police academy or ATF training seminar–he honed hisoutdoorsman abilities as a kid. He is adept at hunting and trappingand living for weeks in the wild. Queen will use these skills–alongwith surveillance, confidential informants, and intelligencegathering–as he doggedly tracks his dangerous quarry, a chase thatculminates in a gripping showdown high in the San BernardinoMountains.

What do doctors do when they get sick? The editors ofPrevention Magazine Health Books asked more than 500 of the nationstop specialists to recommend their best doctor-tested andeasy-to-follow remedies for 138 illnesses and maladies. Thiscomplete, practical guide contains the distilled experience ofhealth professionals who offer more than 2300 accessible healingtips for the most common medical complaints. In this handy reference you will find curative techniques andsymptom-relieving treatments for bladder infections, depression,emphysema, headaches, premenstrual syndrome, toothaches, and muchmore. Here are invaluable at-home solutions for annoying afflictionssuch as canker sores, dandruff, and snoring as well as methods forcoping with more serious health problems such as high cholesterol,ulcers, and backaches. The Doctors Book Of Home Remedies is likehaving a doctor on call 24 hours a day. So treat yourself to thispre*ion for health and stay well.

The Touch of Healing offers readers the means togreater health, vitality, and self-understanding through thepractice of an ancient oriental healing art and practical holisticphilosophy called Jin Shin Jystsu. Gentle touching similar toacupressure is used to release tension that accumulates and is atthe root of dysfunction, disease, and imbalance. The authorsexplain the natural life force that runs through the body anddemonstrate with case studies, detailed analysis, and more than 30illustrations, how to integrate this system into one's life. Thekey healing points and body flows, known as "Safety Energy Locks,"are presented with step-by-step instructions on how to utilize themfor healing and greater self-awareness. Many self-help practicesare also offered that address a wide array of common ailments,including headaches, digestive disorders, fatigue, depression, andarthritis along with pre*ive exercises for relief of emotionalailments such as loss of confidence, anxiety, and depression.

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