Ever since Darwin:reflections in natural history

作者：  (美)斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould)著;田洺译

出版社：海南出版社,2008

简介：《自达尔文以来》自然史沉思录：在过去的时间里，科学之手对于人类朴实的自恋有过两次重大的打击。第一次是认识到我们的地球并不是宇宙的中心，而是大得难以想象的宇宙体系中的尘埃……第二次是生物学的研究剥夺了人类特创的特殊优越性，将人类废黜为动物的后裔。若干年后，对于人类自恋的第三次重大打击又将是什么呢？亿万年的地球巨变，毫微间的存亡一瞬，都因古尔德的生花妙笔跃然纸上。

A devil's chaplain : reflections on hope, lies, science, and love / 1st Mariner Books ed.

作者：  Richard Dawkins.

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简介：The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to reveal the wonders of the world. In these essays Dawkins revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. Here also are moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. The collection ends with a vivid note to Dawkins's ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life. - Back cover.

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简介：　　在线阅读本书 　　 　　 "The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970. The impact of Charles Darwin's work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all aspects of our lives. This new edition, larger and more varied than the previous ones, includes more of Darwin's own work and also presents the most recent research and scholarship on all aspects of Darwin's legacy. The biological sciences, as well as social thought, philosophy, ethics, religion, and literature, have all been shaped and reshaped by evolutionary concepts. Excerpts from the most important books and articles of recent years confirm this Darwinian heritage. New work by Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Kevin Padian, Eugene C. Scott, Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Michael Ruse, Frans de Waal, Noretta Koertge, George C. Williams, George Levine, Stephen Jay Gould, Gillian Beer, Ernst Mayr, and many others illuminates this exciting intellectual history. A wide-ranging new introduction by the editor provides context and coherence to this rich body of engaging material, much of which will be shaping human thought well into the new century. This edition will be useful to scientists and historians alike: "The Norton Darwin explains Darwinian evolution and illustrates the social and intellectual conflicts of the past two centuries better than any other book that I am aware of." (Charles Taylor, Professor of Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles) And it will be of great value to the humanities and social sciences as well: "The edition provides the sharpest and most exciting access to Darwin we have ever had. It shows all of us interested in the heart of our intellectual heritage how that heritage is sustained, manipulated, and honored." (James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California) A Selected Bibliography and an Index are included. About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehenive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.　　

Full House

作者：  史蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould)原著;范昱峰翻译

出版社：江苏科学技术出版社,2009

简介：本书分趋势何处寻、死亡与马、打击王、细菌的优势四部分，主要介绍了赫胥黎的棋盘、被宣传扭曲的达尔文、历史趋势的铸造、命中率的问题、传统的解释、似是而非的论证等内容。 　　本书主要围绕以下两个主题展开：一为美国职业棒球四成打击率之消失，究竟是职业棒球技术之退步抑或进步？二为生物之演化，应视为可以预测　　本书作者古尔德博士是一位杰出的古生物学家，专业及相关著作等早已蜚声国际。《生命的壮阔》1997年甫一出版，立即佳评潮涌，造成轰动。

化身博士 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

作者：  Robert

出版社：华文出版社 2002年02月

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This Norton Critical Edition of Stevenson's enduringly popular and chilling tale is based on the 1886 First British Edition, the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manu* and for which he read proofs. The text has been rigor-ously annotated for student readers and is accompanied by a textual appendix.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of materials on the tale's pub-lication history as well as its relevance to Victorian culture. Twelve of Steven-son's letters from the years 1885-87 are excerpted, along with his essay "A Chapter on Dreams," in which he comments on the plot's origin. Ten contempo-rary responses--including those by Julia Wedgwood, Gerard Manley Hopkins,and Henry James--illustrate Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's initial re-ception. Stevenson's 1885 tale "Markheim," a precursor to Jekyll and Hyde and a window onto the Victorian sensation market, is reprinted in its entirety in this Norton Critical Edition. Karl Miller, Jenni Calder, and Judith Halberstam dis-cuss literary genres central to Jekyll and Hyde. Four scientific essays--including one by Stephen Jay Gould--elucidate Victorian conceptions of atavism, multiple-personality disorder, narcotics addiction, and sexual aberration. Judith IR. Walkowitz and Walter Houghton consider the implications of Victorian moral conformity and political disunity for society at large.
"Performance Adaptations" addresses--in writings by C. Alex Pinkston, Jr., Charles King, and Scott Allen Nollen--the many ways in which Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been dramatized over more than a century and ex-plores its status as a perpetually effective vehicle for changing psychological and social concerns. A checklist of major performance adaptations is provided, along with a sampler of publicity photos.
"Criticism" includes essays by G. K. Chesterton, Vladimir Nabokov, Peter K.Garrett, Patrick Brantlinger, and Katherine Linehan that center on the tale's major themes of morality, allegory, and self-alienation.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Flamingo’s smile

作者：  史蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould)原著;刘琪翻译

出版社：江苏科学技术出版社,2013

简介：《火烈鸟的微笑(自然史沉思录)》由史蒂芬·杰·古尔德所著，演化论是一种科学思想，不仅推翻了过去的一些期望和假设，而且启发我们现在的思维。 思考起源问题带给人们无穷无尽的快乐，虽然说世界不是为人类的快乐而存在，但是科普散文能带给人们无尽的联想和思索乐趣。 《火烈鸟的微笑(自然史沉思录)》充满了前瞻性和厚重感，叫人爱不释手。

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简介：Includes essays by Stephen Dunn, Margaret Atwood, Cathy N. Davidson, Amy Tan, Eudora Welty, E.B. White, Paule Marshall, Elie Wiesel, Linda Hogan, Peter Elbow, William Least Heat-Moon, Mark Twain, Sylvia Plath, Donald Murray, Roger Angell, Mary Ruffin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frederick Douglass, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Patricia J. Williams, Isaac Asimov, Thomas S. Kuhn, Jane Brody, Mike Rose, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Zitkala-Sa, Jonathan Kozol, Stephanie Coontz, Bobbie Ann Mason, Scott Russell Sanders, Joan Didion, Kathleen Norris, Lewis Thomas, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Richard Rodriguez, James Thurber, Richard Wright, Alan M. Dershowitz, Susanne K. Langer, Judy Brady, Nancy Mairs, Charles Darwin, Deborah Tannen, Stephen Jay Gould, Vicki Hearne, Bailey White, Raymond Carver, Martin Luther King Jr., Lani Guinier, John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Reich, Abraham Lincoln, Jonathan Swift, Lynda Barry, Terry Tempest Williams, Gilbert Highet, Tuan Ch'eng-Shih, and Anne Sexton.

Ever since Darwin:Reflections in natural history

作者：  (美)斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould)著;田洺译

出版社：三联书店,1997

简介：本书内容包括有：第一部分 关于达尔文、第二部分 人类的进化、第三部分 奇特的生物与进化的样板、第四部分 生命史中的模式与间断等。

Nature's fading chorus : classic and contemporary writings on amphibians /

作者：  edited by Gordon L. Miller.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Collects excerpts and articles from a range of Western natural history writings beginning with early hits like Aristotle's History of Animals , and works by Pliny the Elder, Albert the Great, Thomas Browne, and John Ray. Next come early amphibious writings by Gilbert White, William Bartram, Thoreau, Burroughs, and W.H. Hudson. Scientific essays by Darwin, T.H. Huxley, Julian Huxley, and Stephen J. Gould follow. Twentieth-century nature writers are represented by Orwell, Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams and others. The essays end on that unhappy note usual (and usually necessary) in environmental narratives, a lament of declines, deformities, and biodiversity, addressing subjects like vanishing and mutant frogs, and amphibians as harbingers of a world in decay. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 Naturalists in every age have been intrigued by frogs, toads, and salamanders. They have seen these amphibians in a variety of guises -- as beings with magical powers or implicit moral lessons, as the products of spontaneous generation, as heralds of the seasons, as evidence of evolution or material for biological experiments, or, most recently, as ecological barometers for the biosphere.Nature's Fading Choruspresents an anthology of writings on amphibians drawn from the entire Western natural history tradition, beginning with Aristotle's Inquiry Concerning Animals written in the fourth century B.C.E., and continuing through recent scientific accounts of the relatively sudden -- and alarming -- global declines and deformities in amphibian species. The offerings not only reveal much about amphibian life, but also provide fascinating insight into the worldviews of the many writers, scientists, and naturalists who have delved into the subject.The book is divided into five sections. The first three offer selections from the most influential contributors to the Western canon of natural history writing, and contain classic texts that illustrate central themes in the changing understanding of amphibians and of the natural world. The fourth section offers engaging essays by leading twentieth-century nature writers that portray a variety of amphibians in diverse terrains. Part five covers the various aspects of, and research on, the problem of amphibian declines and deformities. Featured are more than thirty-five pieces, including works from Pliny the Elder, Gilbert White, William Bartram, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, George Orwell, Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams, and many others.Arranged chronologically, the writings provide an intriguing look at the ways in which humankind's understanding of its place in nature has changed through the course of Western history, and of the niche amphibians have occupied in that evolution.  

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简介：Includes writings by Dylan Thomas, Margaret Laurence, Wallace Stegner, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Bruno Bettelheim, Joan Didion, Joyce Maynard, Fredelle Maynard, Loren Eiseley, E.B. White, Anatole Broyard, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, May Sarton, Woody Allen, Ned Rorem, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, David McCullough, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Annie Dillard, Margaret Mead, N. Scott Momaday, Benjamin Franklin, William Golding, Desmond Morris, Jacob Bronowski, M.F.K. Fisher, Isaac Asimov, Paul Theroux, Scott Russell Sanders, Oliver Sacks, Malcolm Cowley, Lewis Thomas, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Stephen Jay Gould, Eudora Welty, Thurber, Adrienne Rich, William Zinsser, H.L. Mencken, Gloria Naylor, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, John Henry Newman, Abraham Lincoln, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Hemingway, Faulkner, Updike, Anthony Burgess, Russell Baker, Jessica Mitford, Tom Wolfe, Alistair Cooke, Gloria Steinem, James Baldwin, Konrad Z. Lorenz, Carl Sagan, Edward Abbey, Chief Seattle, Joseph Wood Krutch, Gary Soto, Samuel L. Clemens, W.H. Auden, Ambrose Bierce, Blake, Barbara Tuchman, Barry Lopez, Hannah Arendt, Daniel J. Boorstin, Oscar Lewis, Jonathan Swift, Martin Luther King Jr., Machiavelli, Edith Hamilton, Arthur Koestler, Vladimir Nabokov, Northrop Frye, Alice Munro, Carl Jung, Robert Frost, S.I. Hayakawa, Aaron Copland, Joyce Carol Oates, Plato, Aesop, Robert Graves, Langston Hughes, PaulTillich, Gilbert Highet, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others.

Clones and clones : facts and fantasies about human cloning /

作者：  edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Cass R. Sunstein.

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简介：　　<p>Distinguished scholars and writers from a broad range of disciplines address a troubling and fascinating issue. &quot;To many if not most of us， cloning represents a possible turning point in the history of humanity，&quot; write the editors of Clones and Clones--a prospect the contributors to this stimulating volume view with varying degrees of alarm， disgust， grief， calm， ambivalence， and not a little humor. . . .Ranging from psychoanalyst Adam Phillips's case study of a child whose confusion of &quot;cloning&quot; and &quot;clothing&quot; expresses our mixed desire and terror of sameness， to Cass Sunstein's projections of utterly plausible Supreme Court decisions both for and against human cloning; from William Miller's analysis of the queasiness and nervous laughter the subject elicits in many of us (&quot;Sheep jokes are sex jokes，&quot; he notes)， to Richard Epstein's libertarian argument against a research ban; from Andrea Dworkin's denunciation of another masculine effort to control reproduction to Martha Nussbaum's witty and elegiac fantasy of the cloning of a lost lover--this superb collection limns our beliefs and concerns about what it means to be human. Other contributors: Stephen Jay Gould， Richard Dawkins， and Steven Pinker (science); Eric and Richard Posner， William Eskridge and Ed Stein， and Laurence Tribe (law); David Tracy， Wendy Doniger， Jean Bethke Elshtain， and Dan Brock (religion and ethics); journalist George Johnson; sociologist Barbara Rothman; philosopher Felicia Ackerman; science fiction writer Lisa Tuttle; and poet C. K. Williams. The book also features Ian Wilmut's original article in Nature and excerpts from the report of the National Bioethics Advisory Council.</p>　　

Ever Since Darwin:Reflections in Natural History

作者：  (美)斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould)著;田洺译

出版社：三联书店,[1997]

简介：　　这本科学家撰写的散文杰作，收集了古尔德在《自然史》杂志上发表的科学随想。作者在哈佛大学教生物学，是科学内行，又有历史家的眼光。他提出了一个问题：达尔文在确立了进化论之后，为什么迟了20年才发表？古尔德说，这是因为他清楚进化论的含义比一般人所意识到的更为离经叛道。

The panda’s thumb

作者：  (美)斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould)著;田洺译

出版社：三联书店,1999

简介：《熊猫的拇指》，古尔德“自然史沉思录”系列又一部精彩之作，包念31篇短小精练的科学小品文，纵论进化理论、二迭纪灭绝、动态持续、异速生长、发育的遗传调控、科学史及科学各话主义等广泛话题。亿万年的地球巨变，毫微间的存亡一瞬，都因古尔德的生花妙笔跃然纸上。惊叹之余，不妨用一句法国名言安慰自己：： 变化的东西越多，就有越多的东西保持不变。

生命的壮阔:古尔德论生物大历史

作者：  (美)斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould)著

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简介：古尔德带领我们走进“常识”的背后。 　　古尔德告诉读者，生物从简单到复杂、从低级到高级的变化并不是自然界普遍的铁律，把“进化”说成趋势是人类中心主义演绎出来的神话。 　　他用了极其简单易懂的实例，雄辩地分析了流行于科学界并广为普通人接受的观点中包藏的迷误，非常有说服力。 　　你如果认为这是一本反达尔文进化论的伪科学著作，并因此弃之一旁，就错过了人类一种睿智的探索。 　　曾经学过进化论并坚信不疑而又仍然保有年轻开放心灵的读者，应该看看这本书。

Curious Minds 英文原版

作者：  John

出版社：Random House US 2005年09月

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　　In this anthology of reminiscences by prominent scientists,the roll includes Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Joseph Ledouxand Ray Kurzweil, along with 23 others. The mandate of the book'seditor, literary agent Brockman (The Third Culture), to each ofthese authors was to write an essay explaining how he or she cameto be a scientist. Some take him at his word and write meanderingstories of childhood. David Buss found his calling—the study ofhuman mating behavior—while working at a truck stop after droppingout of school. Paul Davies says he was born to be a theoreticalphysicist. Daniel Dennett, on the other hand, seems to have triedevery other profession before landing, as if by accident, inscience. A few writers let their essays get hijacked by the sciencethey have devoted their lives to. And in the midst of this, like akeystone in an arch, is an essay by Steven Pinker explaining whythe entire exercise is a bunch of hooey: scientifically speaking,he says, people have no objective idea what influenced theirbehavior, and that writing a memoir is creative storytelling, notobjective observation of what actually happened. Whether or notthese essays are scientifically sound is open to debate, but theydo offer occasionally inspiring glimpses into the minds of today'sscientific intelligentsia.
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　　When the late evolutionist and polymath Stephen Jay Gould was atoddler, he became fascinated and terrified by the toweringTyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the American Museum of NaturalHistory. Gould later claimed to have been instantly "imprinted" onthe monstrous saurian, like a duckling on its mama. The little boydecided on the spot to become a paleontologist--years before heeven learned the word. In John Brockman's Curious Minds: How aChild Becomes a Scientist, a collection of 27 autobiographicalessays by leading savants, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinkerscoffs at this oft-told story. Pinker relates that Gould dedicatedhis first book: "For my father, who took me to see theTyrannosaurus when I was five," and admires Gould's "genius ... forcoming up with that charming line." But he doesn't buy it. Pinkergoes on to tell his own childhood story, with the caveat thatlong-term memory is notoriously malleable and that we often concoctretrospective scenarios to fit satisfying *s of our lives. Sodon't believe anything in this book, he warns, including his ownself-constructed mythology; many children are exposed to books andmuseums, but few become scientists. Pinker concludes that perhapsthe essence of who we are from birth shapes our childhoodexperiences rather than the other way around. Nevertheless, whenBrockman asked Pinker and others to trace the roots of their adultobsessions for this book, he received some unexpected andentertaining responses. Primatologist Robert Sapolsky, for example,haunted the Bronx Zoo and the natural history museum, as Gould did,but fell in love with living primates rather than fossil bones. Hedidn't want to just study mountain gorillas, he recalls of hischildhood crush on monkeys and apes, "I wanted to be one." For thepast few decades, Sapolsky has spent half of each year in hisphysiology lab and the other half among wild baboon troops in EastAfrica. Some people, such as theoretical psychologist NicholasHumphrey, are simply born into science. His grandfather, Nobellaureate A. V. Hill, often took him along to the physiology lab.Grandfather Hill--quoting his friend Ivan Pavlov--taught youngNicholas that "facts are the air of a scientist. Without them youcan never fly." Among frequent visitors to the family home were hisgreat-uncles Maynard and Geoffrey Keynes, members of Britishscience's aristocracy, as well as his great-aunt Margaret, agranddaughter of Charles Darwin. He recalls how their long-termhouseguest, an adolescent, "bossy" Stephen Hawking, once marched upand down the hallways clutching a military swagger stick, barkingat a "platoon of hapless classmates." Science was Humphrey'sbirthright. Richard (The Selfish Gene) Dawkins, one of England'spreeminent Darwinians, admits that he never cared for science orthe natural world during his early years. He was inspired, however,by the fanciful children's books about Dr. Dolittle by HughLofting. The good doctor was a Victorian gentleman who heldintelligent conversations with mice and parrots and whales. Anadventurous sort, he traveled the world to learn the secrets offaraway places. When the adult Dawkins encountered the life andworks of Charles Darwin, he welcomed him as an old friend and heroof his youth. Dolittle and Darwin, he opines, "would have been soulbrothers." Lynn Margulis's early interest in the wonders of themicroscopic world began when she was a "boy crazy" adolescent, whowas amazed to learn that some minuscule creatures never need sex inorder to reproduce. Enter a teenage heartthrob: the buddingastrophysicist Carl Sagan. ("Tall, handsome in a sort of galootyway, with a shock of brown-black hair, he captivated me.") She was16 when they met; eventually they married. Sagan's fascination with"billions and billions" of cosmic bodies resonated with her ownfixation on the billions of microcosms to be observed through themicroscope. Margulis's study subjects have included a tiny animalin a termite's gut that is made up of five distinct genomes cobbledtogether. She has argued that we and other animals are compositecritters, whose every cell harbors long-ago invaders--minutesymbiotic organisms that became part of our makeup. Her innovativeapproach to evolution has profoundly influenced biology. Harvardpsychologist and neurologist Howard Gardner says his youth wasnotable for its lack of any clues indicating a future in science:"I did not go around gathering flowers, studying bugs, ordissecting mice ... I neither assembled radios nor tore apartcars." Yet, for others, there was a decisive turning point. Andsome could clearly remember it. I was fortunate in having been achildhood friend of Steve Gould's and can vouch for the sincerity of his conviction that his extraordinary career as a paleontologist,historian of science and evolutionary theorist began when that T.rex followed him into his nightmares. Once, during our junior highschool days, I stood with him beneath that iconic carnosaur in themuseum, observing his reverence and awe on revisiting the shrine ofhis inspiration. Professor Pinker, of course, is free to believethat I'm making this up for my own psychological reasons.

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简介：An all-inclusive catalogue of the world's living diversity, Five Kingdomsdefines and describes the major divisions of nature's five great kingdoms—bacteria, protoctists, animals, fungi, and plants—using a modern classification scheme that is consistent with both the fossil record and molecular data. — Generously illustrated an...   more 籨 easy to follow, it not only allows students to sample the full range of life forms inhabiting our planet but to familiarize themselves with the taxonomic theories by which all organisms' origins and distinctive characteristics are traced and classified. This completely revised and updated third edition includes an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould. * New ideas on molecular systematics, symbiogenisis, and the place of microbes in the evolution of life * Newly expanded chapter openings that define each kingdom and place its members in context in time and space * Definitions of terms in the glossary and, now, also appropriately placed throughout the book * A new table comparing the main features of each kingdom, showing the logic of the overall classification scheme * A list of prehistoric dioramas in science museums and in U.S. national parks and monuments guiding readers to trips to the past * A list of websites directing students to additional information   ?less

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简介：　　A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller 　　 　　"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." -The New York Times 　　 　　"An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." -The Wall Street Journal 　　 　　"A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it." -Business Week 　　 　　"Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read." -The Economist 　　 　　"[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world." -Worth 　　 　　"No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement." -Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers 　　 　　"With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it." -John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University 　　 　　In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. 　　 　　"An extremely readable history of risk." -Barron's 　　 .　　"Fascinating . . . this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face." -Money 　　 　　"A singular achievement." -Times Literary Supplement 　　 　　"There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company." -The Australian 　　 　　

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 This book was originally written in 1969 by Berkeley mathematician John Rhodes. It is the founding work in what is now called algebraic engineering, an emerging field created by using the unifying scheme of finite state machine models and their complexity to tie together many fields: finite group theory, semigroup theory, automata and sequential machine theory, finite phase space physics, metabolic and evolutionary biology, epistemology, mathematical theory of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and game theory. The author thus introduced a completely original algebraic approach to complexity and the understanding of finite systems. The unpublished manuscript, often referred to as 鈥淭he Wild Book鈥? became an underground classic, continually requested in manuscript form, and read by many leading researchers in mathematics, complex systems, artificial intelligence, and systems biology. Yet it has never been available in print until now.This first published edition has been edited and updated by Chrystopher Nehaniv for the 21st century. Its novel and rigorous development of the mathematical theory of complexity via algebraic automata theory reveals deep and unexpected connections between algebra (semigroups) and areas of science and engineering. Co-founded by John Rhodes and Kenneth Krohn in 1962, algebraic automata theory has grown into a vibrant area of research, including the complexity of automata, and semigroups and machines from an algebraic viewpoint, and which also touches on infinite groups, and other areas of algebra. This book sets the stage for the application of algebraic automata theory to areas outside mathematics.The material and references have been brought up to date by the editor as much as possible, yet the book retains its distinct character and the bold yet rigorous style of the author. Included are treatments of topics such as models of time as algebra via semigroup theory; evolution-complexity relations applicable to both ontogeny and evolution; an approach to classification of biological reactions and pathways; the relationships among coordinate systems, symmetry, and conservation principles in physics; discussion of 鈥減unctuated equilibrium鈥?(prior to Stephen Jay Gould); games; and applications to psychology, psychoanalysis, epistemology, and the purpose of life.The approach and contents will be of interest to a variety of researchers and students in algebra as well as to the diverse, growing areas of applications of algebra in science and engineering. Moreover, many parts of the book will be intelligible to non-mathematicians, including students and experts from diverse backgrounds.  

Dinosaur in a haystack

作者：  史蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould)原著;传神翻译

出版社：江苏科学技术出版社,2013

简介：世界著名科学家史蒂芬.杰.古尔德著名的系列科普散文《自然史沉思录》，以科普散文讲述演化沦，带给读者无尽的联想和思索的乐趣。 古尔德文笔优美，风格平实近人，文字典雅大方，条理清晰。他特别擅长将复杂的慨念解释清楚。 《干草堆中的恐龙(自然史沉思录)》由史蒂芬·杰·古尔德所著，这本《干草堆中的恐龙(自然史沉思录)》中的文章包含了一系列令人感兴趣的话题，从大型化石、嗜好、真菌到棒球等，甚至包括《侏罗纪公园》的读书体验。总的来说，包罗万象。 古尔德看到了自然界的实质，因此对类似时间、政变和历史这类更大的主题进行探索，把读者带回无法抗拒的进化时代。

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简介： Featuring an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould, "Genetics and the Origin of Species" presents the first edition of Dobzhansky's groundbreaking and now classic inquiry into what has emerged as the most important single area of scientific inquiry in the twentieth century: biological theory of evolution. Genetics and the Origin of Species went through three editions (1937, 1941, and 1951) in which the importance accorded natural selection changed radically.