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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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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Gr 8 Up-In this gritty novel of World War II, 16-year-old Erik Brandt is forced to fight for the emaciated German army, and because of his knowledge of the Russian language, he is sent to the Russian front. The train trip that Erik and the other young men take is symbolic of their transition from child to man. These boys are sent to the front with only a few weeks of basic training and the directions to kill or be killed. After the first battle, Erik makes the life-altering decision to take the uniform of a dead Russian soldier and pretends to be Russian for most of his remaining time as a soldier, surviving serious wounds and finding the love of his life while he recuperates in a war hospital. There he pretends to have amnesia and takes the moniker "Soldier X." When the hospital is attacked, Erik and his girlfriend escape. After a harrowing journey filled with enemy encounters, they find a safe house in Czechoslovakia and eventually make their way to Berlin. The story is framed with a prologue and epilogue f

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Studying the dynamics of a large number of particlesinteracting through long-range forces, commonly referred to as the'N-body problem', is a central aspect of many different branches ofphysics. In recent years, significant advances have been made inthe development of fast N-body algorithms to deal efficiently withsuch complex problems. This book is the first to give a thoroughintroduction to these so-called 'tree methods', setting out thebasic principles and giving many practical examples of their use.No prior specialist knowledge is assumed, and the techniques areillustrated throughout with reference to a broad range ofapplications. The book will be of great interest to graduatestudents and researchers working on the modelling of systems inastrophysics, plasma physics, nuclear and particle physics,condensed matter physics and materials science.

The author introduces the seminal concept of"pseudo-events"--such as press conferences and presidentialdebates, which are staged solely for publicity--and redefinescelebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness." Theresult is an essential resource that distinguishes the deceptionsof our culture from its few enduring truths.